Alexander Taylor

Brief Life History of Alexander

When Alexander Taylor was christened on 24 February 1805, in Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Taylor, was 29 and his mother, Ann Ferguson, was 28. He married Janet Burns on 31 December 1833, in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1838 and lived in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died in 1862, in Bristol, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 57.

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Family Time Line

Alexander Taylor
1805–1862
Janet Burns
1804–1865
Marriage: 31 December 1833
James Taylor
1833–
Catherine Graham Taylor
1834–1905
Marion M. Taylor
1836–1877
Helen Taylor
1838–
William Taylor
1840–1885
John Taylor
1841–
Robert Burns Taylor
1843–1917
George Taylor
1845–
Easter Taylor
1846–
Charles Pellar Taylor
1850–

Sources (14)

  • Alexander Taylor, "Scotland Census, 1851"
  • Alexander Taylor, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Alexander Taylor, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"

World Events (8)

1810

Governor Lachlan Macquarie takes office. Ellis Bent becomes the Colony's third deputy judge advocate.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

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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