Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Taylor was born on 8 September 1866, in Elgin, Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, Gilbert Taylor, was 30 and her mother, Jane Hyndman, was 24. She lived in Yarmouth Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Mary Taylor in household of Gilbert Taylor, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Mary Taylor, "Ontario, Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899"
- Mary Taylor in household of Gilbert Taylor, "Canada Census, 1881"
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World Events (7)
1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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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