When John Postles Taylor was born on 7 September 1821, in Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, England, his father, William Taylor, was 25 and his mother, Nancy Ann Postles, was 25. He married Ann Sanders on 24 May 1848, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1860 and lived in Mobberley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 4 December 1884, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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 NamesJohn Postles Taylor, an active Elder in the Church, was born September 7, 1823, at Knutsford, county of Cheshire, England, the son of William Taylor and Nancy Postles, of Cheshire, England. He was b …
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