When Jerrol Neil Taylor was born on 15 February 1941, in Aiken, South Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Neely Taylor, was 32 and his mother, Mildred Von Rawls, was 32. He lived in Warrenville, Aiken, South Carolina, United States in 2002. He died on 1 August 2003, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sunset Memory Gardens, Graniteville, Aiken, South Carolina, United States.
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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