When James H Taylor was born about 1852, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Sinclair Taylor, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Gleason, was 28. He lived in Duck Creek Township, Stoddard, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Kenton, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1880.
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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