Birth Name: James Vernon Taylor
Place of Birth: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Birth: March 12, 1948
Ethnicity: English, small amounts of Scottish and Welsh
James Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is a five-time Grammy Award-winner. James is the son of Gertrude Arline (Woodard) and physician Isaac Montrose Taylor. James was married to singer Carly Simon, with whom he has two children. He is now married to Caroline Smedvig, with whom he has two children.
James’s patrilineal line traces back to a James Taylor, born c. 1700, in Kincardine, Fife, Scotland. James’s matrilineal line traces back to John Woodward, born c. 1477, in Upton, Buckinghamshire, England.
James’s paternal grandparents were Alexander “Alex” Taylor, Jr. (the son of Isaac Montrose Taylor and Susan Murphy Evans) and Theodosia “Dosia” Haynes (the daughter of Stanford Lyman Haynes and Emily Roxanna Leonard).
James’s maternal grandparents were Henry Herman Woodward (the son of Henry Francis Woodward and Etta Mae Dennison) and Ella Angelique Knox (the daughter of Frederick Charles Knox and Ruth Elizabeth Collins).
Source: Genealogy of James Taylor – http://www.geni.com
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