Mary Francis Taylor

Brief Life History of Mary Francis

When Mary Francis Taylor was born on 12 December 1913, in Monroe, Indiana, United States, her father, Perry Deckard Taylor, was 26 and her mother, Jessie Alma Butcher, was 24. She married Raphael Edward Yalden on 12 November 1939. She died on 5 June 2000, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86.

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Raphael Edward Yalden
1912–1986
Mary Francis Taylor
1913–2000
Marriage: 12 November 1939

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    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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