1. John1 Taylor; born 1478 at Rothbury, Northcumberland, ENG; married Susan Rowland.Mrs. W.H. Taylor of Port Arthur, Texas and Seaver in The History of Taylors say that the most ancient name of TAYLOR was one Taliaferro who was with Caesar in his campaign in Gaul 58 B.C. The name appeared again in Normandy, a Nobleman who accompanied William the Conqueror to England 1066, leading the Battle of Hastings. Although the Baron [Taliaferro] fell in battle, his brother Foulkes and descendants received vast estates and became the Earls of Pennington, ancestors of the TAYLORS. The name gradually became TAILLERFER. It is claimed that Hangar TAILLIFER, who lived in the time of Henry III and whose estates were in Kent, had a son William who was called "TAYLOR of Shadochurst", and that his grandson John TAYLOR was Lord of the Manor Shadochurst. There were also TAYLORS of Ireland who spelled their name TELFAIR, TALLISFER, or TAYLEUR. John TELFAIR was given as the ancestor of Matthew TAYLOR who settled in New York 1670. The TAYLORS of Shadochurst were said to be "of Pennington" which is only 20 miles from Carlisle, England, the port from which the first TAYLORS sailed to America. The old ancestral home was Pennington, where ancestors are buried. The TAYLOR Coat of Arms is the same as those of the Earls of Pennington. Mary Taylor Brewer's From Log Cabins to the White House.
Susan Rowland was born in 1482 at Rothbury, Northcumberland, ENG.
The five known children of John1 Taylor and Susan Rowland were as follows: