When Martha Eliza Taylor was born on 7 October 1832, in New York, United States, her father, Gilbert Taylor, was 41 and her mother, Betsey Griffin, was 39. She had at least 2 daughters with Quartus Curtis. She lived in Queensbury, Warren, New York, United States in 1870 and Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 11 November 1902, in Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States.
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 .
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