When Emma Taylor was born on 15 June 1829, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Taylor, was 43 and her mother, Jane Clark, was 43. She married William Henry Wright on 5 September 1847, in Handsworth, Staffordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. In 1880, at the age of 51, her occupation is listed as general retail merchandise clerk in husbands store in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. She died on 16 February 1909, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Josiah Nelson BIRTH 1841 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA DEATH 1841 (aged less–than 1 year) Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA BURIAL Ogden City Cemetery Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 240526232 · View Source
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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 .
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Possible Related Names[Four Generation Picture: L-R, back: Emma (Wright) Grant; Granddaughter, Marilyn Grant Newman; Daughter-in-law, Kathryn (Hoag) Grant. Front: Great-granddaughter, Kim (Rowley) Hawley.] Emma was born J …
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