When Frank A. Taylor was born on 1 September 1860, in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States, his father, Armstead Joshua Taylor, was 30 and his mother, Tabitha Jane Scott, was 29. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Collin, Texas, United States in 1870. He died on 16 February 1887, in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in McKinney, Collin, Texas, 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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