Joseph Henry Taylor

Brief Life History of Joseph Henry

When Joseph Henry Taylor was born on 31 March 1847, in South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Reuben Taylor, was 41 and his mother, Dorcas Nash, was 37. He died on 12 August 1848, at the age of 1.

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Family Time Line

Reuben Taylor
1805–1875
Dorcas Nash
1809–
Elisha Nash Taylor
1838–
Eliza N Taylor
1839–1904
Ellen M Taylor
1841–1903
Edwin D. Nash
1843–
Joseph Henry Taylor
1847–1848
Edwin Dwight Taylor
1847–1958

Sources (2)

  • Joseph Taylor, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
  • Joseph Taylor, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"

Name Meaning

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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