When Silence Taylor was born in 1737, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jacob Taylor, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Patten, was 36. She married Major Jonathan Stickney in 1758, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 23 March 1807, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
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