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Taylor is an English occupational surname for a tailor — a cutter of cloth. Like all great trade surnames it is polygenetic: thousands of unrelated medieval tailors, in different counties and different centuries, took up the same name independently. This book never pretends all Taylors descend from one bloodline — it tells the story honestly.
The signature story is Zachary Taylor — “Old Rough and Ready” — the plain, unpretentious general who won Palo Alto, Monterrey, and Buena Vista and became the twelfth president of the United States.
Inside: the one attributed coat of arms (the Earls of Bective and Marquesses of Headfort), a gallery of sixteen remarkable bearers — Brook Taylor of Taylor’s theorem, Jeremy Taylor, Bayard Taylor, Declaration signer George Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and more — curiosities from Taylorism to buried cannon, the maps and timelines of the name’s crossings, the twelve Taylor places, and the numbers we can stand behind: 17th in the 2010 U.S. Census, outside the top fifteen in 2020, fourth in England and Wales in 1856.
The Surname Histories Series traces one family name per volume through etymology, migration, heraldry, famous bearers, and the towns that carry the name — a coffee-table keepsake for anyone who bears the name, past, present, and future, and for all those who love them.
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