Sarah Taylor

22 March 1803–16 March 1881 (Age 77)
Southwark St Mary, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of Sarah

When Sarah Taylor was born on 22 March 1803, in Southwark St Mary, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Taylor, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Love, was 29. She married Richard Alexander Jarvis on 10 June 1821, in Newington, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in St John, Walworth, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1841 and Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 16 March 1881, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Richard Alexander Jarvis
1796–1848
Sarah Taylor
1803–1881
Marriage: 10 June 1821
Henry John Jarvis
1822–1878
Martha Jarvis
1826–1828
George Jarvis
1823–1854
Eliza Jarvis
1824–1830
Emma Caroline Jarvis
1829–1873
Richard Jarvis
1831–1858
Matilda Jarvis
1834–1837
Caroline Jarvis
1836–
Thomas Jarvis
1837–1881
James Jarvis
1839–1907
Elizabeth Jarvis
1841–1914
Mary Ann Jarvis
1845–1846

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    10 June 1821Newington, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
    • Children

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (4)

    World Events (8)

    1804
    Age 1
    Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
    1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
    Age 5
    The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
    1825 · The Crimes Act
    Age 22
    The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Tayloe
    Schneider
    Tayler
    Tailor

    Sources (54)

    • Sarah Jarvis in household of Richd Jarvis, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
    • Sarah Hyde, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
    • Sarah Jarvis in household of Henry J Jarvis, "United States Census, 1870"

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