When Violet Marion Taylor was born on 9 November 1890, in Abbotskerswell, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Frederick Taylor, was 31 and her mother, Catherine Herring, was 29. She had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Jack Alfred Arthur Claydon. She lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1926. She died on 17 November 1952, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 62.
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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