Taylor Name Study
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Surnames/tags: Taylor Tayler Tyler
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About the Project
The Taylor Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Taylor name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Taylor name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Taylor's), by time period (18th Century Taylor's), or by topic (Taylor DNA, Taylor Occupations, Taylor Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
Also see the related surnames and surname variants.
How to Join
To join the Taylor Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Vacant for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Research Pages
Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!
Membership
- Amy Hamilton
- Carole Taylor interested in DNA project "'Y-Chome....
Origins
The Taylor surname is an occupational surname that arrived in the British Isles with the Norman Conquest. It is derived from the Old French tailleur meaning cutter (of fabric) which in turn was derived from the Late Latin taliator. [1] Keep in mind that if someone emigrated from a non-English speaking country to an English speaking country, they may have changed their surname. So, Schneider or Sznajder might become Snyder based on the sound or Taylor based on the meaning. [2]
Task List
Or, how can you help.
1. Categories: Categories help organize ongoing research; help those with a special interest find profiles they may want to investigate and help others researching a particular topic. There are two existing categaories specific to Taylors:
Taylor Family Brick Walls: If everyone identifed their Taylor brickwalls and then periodically checked back to look over the list, we might be able to help each other climb these walls.
Migrants, Taylor Name Study. The Categories Team has determined this should be used only for those individuals moving from country to country.
It is easy to add a category to a profile. While in the editing mode, click on the icon that looks like a series of attached boxes. When the box comes up start typing the category you want to use and select it from the list that comes up.
Resources
Taylor related genealogies and histories available online at Google Books:
Taylor, Elisha. Judge John Taylor and His Descendants. Detroit, MI: The Richmond & Backus Co,. 1886.
Taylor related genealogies and histories available online at archive.org
If you are aware of any additional online resources helpful to other Taylor researchers, please post a public comment ion this page with the information and link.
Notable Taylers/Taylors on Wikitree
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, British -American Actress
Robert Taylor, American Actor
Sarah Knox (Taylor) Davis, Daughter of Zachary Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis
Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States
If you know of any other notable Taylers or Taylors, please post a link to their profile in a public comment on this page.
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I am new to this site. I am researching my mother’s family (Maura Taylor-Buckey). These are Roman Catholic Taylors from Swords Co Dublin. We have a direct line back to Marks Taylor from Rush born about 1742 but it runs cold beyond that. He was married to Sarah Cannon. The family folklore is that they go back to the Taylors who came over from England with Richard the Second as falconers, so I am only missing 300 hundred years…
Clara Sesler Genther. Ancestors and Descendants of Taylor and Hager Families of Madison and Union Counties, Ohio. http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/179134
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-15497
Billie
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-27424
Billie
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edited by Amy Hamilton
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Amy WikiTree One Name Studies Project Leader
I am interested in connecting Taylor lineage in those I have found DNA closeness. My line has a brick wall at Ezra Taylor (1811-1847). The profiles with the closest Y-DNA are Amasa Taylor (abt 1800) Vermont and Samuel Taylor (1656 - 1740/41) Massachusetts. I believe all 3 of these lines will eventually connect with William Taylor b. 1774 - d. 1861 UK.
I have found unpublished genealogies, one in the library of congress and another privately published by the Buckeye newspaper in Archbold, Ohio. Thomas had a descendant:Nathaniel Taylor. See https://www.gospeltruth.net/nathanieltaylor.htm ,page 5. Nathaniel's son; Lt. Augustine was paymaster in the Conn. Continental line, 7th Reg. during the Revolution. He was a militia Maj. Geneneral during the war of 1812. See: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-17-02-0454 My line came to California from Illinois in 1853. Lt. R.W.Taylor USCGR
There mothers name was Maria Jose Mesquita, de Sousa, Taylor who was born in the Azores. In all of the census records it listed a Robert A. Taylor as their father, but after some research I found that my Dads, his sister Mary and brother James fathers name was John Taylor, on my dads birth certificate it said from Jamaica. Why there was a difference in names I have no clue and there is no one else to ask as they have all passed away. The information I have on his mother was from the paperwork he had from when she immigrated to the USA in 1905, she was married to a man named Antonio deSousa. Somehow after that is when Taylor came into the picture, and she left Boston for Philadelphia. I started my search to build our family tree when my sister, who was my best friend, suddenly passed away so that It would keep my mind busy. I tried to use her flash drive marked ancestry, to see what she found, and it crashed my laptop (infected with a virus). So I had to start from scratch and took a DNA test with 23andMe. I had no luck, it seemed the only names I recognized were from my maternal family. After taking my third DNA test with Ancestry, I learned that my dad isn't my biological father and that would be why I am having such a hard time 😞. After the shock wore off, I decided to continue on with my search for my family, even if it wasn't completely biological. I talked my oldest sister into taking a DNA test, and a cousin (the son of my dads oldest brother) who took a Y-37 DNA test with FTDNA. I have another sister who said she would test for me, hopefully before the holidays, so with that I am hoping to find some one from the Taylor side who could help me fill in the many gaps that we never knew. I am on GEDMatch with T016375, My sister is A453529, my cousin James is QQ6108596, and my Nephew is TW4989808. Somehow someone has attached their GEDCom to my GEDMatch kit# so please ignore that if you see it, I messaged an admin but havent heard back, and can not figure out how I got to the place where I messaged the admin from 🤦🏻♀️. I am not smart with computers and I use my iPad since my sisters flash drive crashed my laptop. I have a tree on Ancestry, for what I know, I have some information here on Wikitree, but nothing about my Taylors. I am not sure if you would want me to join the Taylor Name Study because I am still not sure how to use Wikitree, and also because I am not a biological Taylor. But if anyone would like to help me, I would be more than happy for any assistance. Unfortunately I am unable to hire a professional to do the work for me.
Thanks so much for reading, and I apologize for the length. Feel free to ask me any questions if you should have any.
Lynn Taylor-Buccafuri
The name Taylor (or similar spelling) is derived from Tailor which is old French used between 842ca and 1400 which is when the Normans brought it over to England. in your introduction you say that its from old the French word Tailleur but that's not old French its modern French ? try this old French translator. https://glosbe.com/en/fro/tailor
John Taylor
edited by John Taylor
yes I agree that the net should be cast as far as possible but the closest occupational name is Tailor, especially at the time that it was brought over to England by the Normans and yes there are many others from modern French and Latin but I would like to stick to the closest If only one example is to be picked. I am not being picky here but its so hard to trace back through the Taylor tree and many people claim name changes that are very hard to prove or disprove. Its also quite easy to see how Tailor got changed to Taylor only one letter changed and this could be because substituting i for y was common in the 16th Century. Thanks again John Taylor
Tim Harr
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Almost all sites have Kinchen Taylor's father as James Patton Taylor, but there is NO documentation to that fact.
Responding to your less than friendly private message, I have an extensive tree, as well as a Taylor research tree, on Ancestry that are public. I find it a waste of my time to copy each and everyone from there to Wiki. If there was an easy way to copy/merge, I would do it.
- They were farmers concentrated just north of Armagh town in the townland of Ballynick (also called Ballyknick) and surrounding townlands, particularly Greenan. - My great grandfather George Taylor 1839-1907 and wife Sarah Jane Cochrane 1839-1917 moved their family from Ballynick to Glasgow Scotland in about 1875. - My grandfather, William Burns Taylor 1886-1932, was the youngest of 8 children (not including 2 who died young). He migrated his family of 6 children and wife Margaret Young Robertson 1888-1979 to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in November 1923. - My father George Taylor 1912-1987 was the oldest child.
I have done a full Y DNA test and it shows an incredible journey by the male line ancestors of the family back into the pre-surname times and clear ancestral links to family groups across southern England, Wales and Scotland with diverse surnames such as Sproat, Williams etc. From the DNA, it appears the branch which became my Taylors separated from the others mentioned above in about 700AD. I am researching to find the origin in the UK of the family prior to arriving in Ireland but it's proving challenging.
The Y DNA test also revealed a link to another Taylor branch in the Drumcree area, just a few kilometres east of my Ballynick Taylors. From the Y DNA it seems the two lines separated not long after arriving in Armagh so the current theory is that either a single Taylor male arrived in Armagh and sons of his established the families in Ballynick and Drumcree or two brother came direct to Ireland and started the two lines. Amazingly, descendants of the the Drumcree Taylors have also migrated to Australia and are in the south and west, with the Ballynick Taylors in the east.
There are known links to Taylor descendants in (at least) Ohio and Alabama USA, Scotland, Australia and Northern Ireland.
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The Dr Rev Roland Taylor who was burnt at the stake in 1555 by Bloody Queen Mary left a wife and 8 0r 9 children. Roland was one of triplets. I believe that some of the family may have fled to Armagh in that time to escape retribution . I don't have much evidence of this but I found a flag of a branch of Irish Taylors with the very unusual motif of three young identical boys in an chevron in it which was the family crest/motif of John Taylor Master of the rolls Roland's brother. I don't think its a coincidence. John Taylor
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I have done the Big Y-700 and YFull tests, and my Taylor haplotree is: 1. Y-700 FamilyTreeDNA kit 947676 I,I1,I-L758,I-M170,I-M253,I-Z63,I-1Y5780,I-BY33526,I-Z42375 2. YFull id YF94576 I,I1,I-L121,I-DF29,I-Z63,I-BY151,I-FGC81364,I-Y15565,I-Y128228
Here is part of it ...........
Naomi: Taylor-49885 her father John: Taylor-49887 and her grandfather William: Taylor-62226
John and William are pre-1700
Checking whether I may have inadvertently duplicated those profiles.
My grandfather is a Taylor from London, England, UK. I would be interested in joining the Taylor Name Study.