William Wilson Taylor

Brief Life History of William Wilson

When William Wilson Taylor was born on 19 November 1882, in Brookside, Canterbury, New Zealand, his father, Arthur Taylor, was 25 and his mother, Annie Rapley, was 25. He married Ethel Florence Beswick on 8 March 1905, in Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 21 October 1952, in Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium, Camberley, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

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Family Time Line

William Wilson Taylor
1882–1952
Ethel Florence Beswick
1882–1966
Marriage: 8 March 1905
Frederick Wilson Taylor
1906–1985
Leslie Charles Taylor
1908–1984
Gladys Muriel Taylor
1912–2009
Herbert William Taylor
1915–1989

Sources (3)

  • William Wilson Taylor, "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966"
  • William Wilson Taylor, "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966"
  • New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9Y2V-9DTG?cc=1865481&wc=4BZB-7LB%3A1045247901%2C1045599601

World Events (7)

1887 · New Zealands's First National Park

Tongariro National Park was the sixth national park established in the world and the first in New Zealand. In the center of the park there lies three active volcanic mountains (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro). it is home to the famed Tongariro Alpine Crossing day hike and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site for all its natural values.

1893

New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.

1907

The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.

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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