When John Taylor Dick was born on 3 October 1856, in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Dick, was 41 and his mother, Agnes Whitelock, was 31. He married Elizabeth Fisher Airmet on 17 November 1881, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1867 and lived in Election Precinct 1 Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 7 July 1933, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English and Scottish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Dick, also found as Dike and Deke, pet forms of Rick (see Richard ). Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to northern Ireland and thence to North America.
English: variant of Dyke .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German dic(ke) ‘thick, strong, stout’, or in the case of the Jewish name from German dick or Yiddish dik ‘fat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesCatherine Kaye Grant S.U.P. National Headquarters - Heritage Hall December 19, 1983 John Taylor Dick, son of John and Agnes Whitelock Dick, was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, October 3, 1 …
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