When Gordon Ernest Taylor was born on 16 September 1952, in Long Pond, Newfoundland, Canada, his father, Harold Taylor, was 28 and his mother, Violet Jean Fagan, was 21. He died on 22 March 2003, in Long Pond, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Foxtrap, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
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.
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