Taylor Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Taylor Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Taylor

The ancient history of the name Taylor was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. include Tayler, Tailor and Tayleur. Meaning 'The Taylor', a cutter of cloth and maker of clothes, this was a very important profession in mediaeval times. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout the above islands. Examples of such are a Henry le Taliur, County Norfolk, a Cecil le Tayllour, County Cambridgeshire, and a Roger le Taylur, County Lincolnshire, who were all recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England, in the year 1273. In Ireland this name and its variants are on record since the fourteenth century although it is during the seventeenth that the majority of settlers and traders bearing the name arrived into Ulster Province from England and Scotland. The name is rendered in Gaelic as 'Tailliuir'.