Researching Myra Taylor
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 191515 people with the Taylor surname? In that year Taylor was ranked number 5 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Myra means "quiet song" and is of French origin.
Records of Myra Taylor on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Myra Taylor and the Taylor Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Taylor Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Taylor family tree.
Check out Parish Records for Myra Taylor at Find My Past.
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Taylor Family History Databases
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Investigate the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Myra Taylor.
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Taylor Forums
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Miscellaneous Taylor Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Myra Taylor. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Myra Taylor
Myra Louise Taylor
Myra Louise Taylor (September 24, 1881 – January 8, 1939) was nursing superintendent at St John's General Hospital in Newfoundland from 1916 for more than twenty years. She had been one of the first people to be educated at, and graduate from, the recently founded School of Nursing there. As superintendent she also had responsibility for the School. She had spent two years in London, England doing additional training and became a member of pioneering UK nursing organisations. During her time as superintendent at the St. John's hospital she was made a Fellow of the British College of Nurses.
Source: Myra Louise Taylor, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Myra Taylor (scriptwriter)
Myra Taylor (1934 – 22 March 2012) was a British television scriptwriter. Although her writing career was not particularly extensive, she did play a significant role in two of the more popular British TV comedies of the 1970s.
Taylor was born as Myra Green in Liverpool in early 1934. She married Harold Taylor in 1954 in Liverpool. She jointly-created The Liver Birds with Carla Lane (whom she met at a writers' club), although she only wrote a few of the early episodes before going her own way at the end of the second series. She was one of a team of scriptwriters on Bless This House and wrote her own short lived series Divided We Stand (1987).
Taylor and Lane would often meet at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool to write together.
She died in March 2012 at the age of 78.
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