When Lorenzo Dow Taylor was born in 1815, in New Castle, Delaware, United States, his father, Richard Taylor, was 49 and his mother, Catharine Welsh, was 38. He married Rebecca Ann Sidwell on 15 September 1852, in Cecil, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Cecil, Maryland, United States in 1860 and Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. In 1860, at the age of 45, his occupation is listed as blacksmith in Cecil, Maryland, United States. He died on 2 April 1891, in Fawn Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Airville, Lower Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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