Mary Taylor

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Taylor was born on 6 May 1740, in Marshfield, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Taylor, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Carver, was 39. She married Perez Sampson on 1 October 1761, in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters.

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Family Time Line

Perez Sampson
1737–
Mary Taylor
1740–
Marriage: 1 October 1761
Arunah Sampson
1762–1811
Stephen Sampson
1765–1847
Sarah Sampson
1767–
Dorothy Sampson
1768–
Abigail Sampson
1772–
Abijah Sampson
1772–
Elizabeth Sampson
1774–1884
Perez Samson Jr.
1776–1823

Sources (10)

  • Mary Tailer, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Mary Taylor, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Mary in entry for Aranunah Samson, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

Name Meaning

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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