WILLIAM STUART TAYLOR Born in Bristol, England, August 9th, 1830. Died March 2nd, 1903. His parents lived in the West Indies for many years. His mother was visiting her parents in England when William was born. William grew up in the West Indies, and when, he was 18 years old he came to America with his older brother and settled at Kingston, Ontario, Canada around 1848.

In the year 1867, he moved to Michigan, U.S.A., and lived there until the fall of 1875, when he moved to Nyja Island (New Iceland). He homesteaded south of Kjalvik, but in 1877 he moved further north to Vidir River where he took a homestead and farmed there until 1881, when he moved to "Argyle" municipality, where he farmed north of Baldur. His home was on the hill known as "Taylor's Hill"-"Taylor's Lake" was along the road below the hill.

William was married three times. His first wife was Isabella Slimmons [a.k.a. Isabella Sleaman, Elizabeth, Isabella Slemins] from England [incorrect: it was Ireland]. They were married on August 15th, 1851. She died in 1868/of tuberculosis. They had five daughters-Isabella (Slimmons) Taylor (of Irish descent was a daughter of John Slimmons of C.W. [Sleaman or Slemins] of England [Ireland]. The five daughters are; Elizabeth, Annie, Caroline, Susan and Jane. Caroline was nine years old when her mother died. All five of the daughters went to live with their uncle John Taylor for a time, during the sad period of mourning.

When William Taylor married again on April 15, 1876 to Eliza McNil, then Caroline and Annie came home, but Elizabeth got married when sixteen years old, Susie and Janie lived with Uncle John Taylor. William and Eliza had three children, William Henry and Herbert (Bert), both living in California, and one daughter, Isabella. Isabella married Thomas Badger, who farmed on NE 10-6-14 in the municipality of Argyle-half way between Baldur and the town of Glenboro. Their farm was the next farm north of Sigurdur & Carrie Christopherson's farm. Isabella(Belle) was partly brought up by her half-sister Caroline (Carrie), and she learned to speak the Icelandic language, as did her sisters, Carrie and Susan(Briem). Eliza died in January, 1884.

William Taylor's third wife was Sigridur, widow of Svein Thorarinson(the mother of Fridrik Sveinson or later known as Fred Swanson), who was a painter and decorator in Winnipeg. William Taylor was, like his brother John, a very sincere friend to the Icelanders, and lived among them in the Icelandic settlements both at Nyja Island(Gimli)area and in Argyle, and he was like one of them He was a very jovial character. He lived on the road between Grund and Baldur-on the hill known, as "Taylor's Hill", and below a little lake called "Taylor's Lake". I found out recently that the "Roll Curtain" on the stage in Argyle Hall(known later as "Grund Hall") was painted by Fred Swanson. It is too bad that it was destroyed, but it had become very brittle and torn and soiled. There was a scenic painting on it. This is translated from "Landnamssogu Nyja Island" by Thorleif Jackson-Page 102 DOC_0081_WilliamStuartTaylorBio

To Miriam and Bruce
Property: Lansing, Michingan, U.S.A. source: Grund Church Booklet, J.D. McFarland, Historic Resources Branch
Nationality: Scottish (again this fact is wrong, they were English
marriage: 02 Apr 1867 Isabella Slemins/Isabella Slimmons
wife 2 Eliza McNeil, 02 Apr 1887 (I think this fact is wrong)
wife 3 Sigridur Thorarinson, d. 1910 (no source)

Possible connection to the Dukes of Norfolk

This is possibly the first time this document has been published anywhere and it is never to be reposted, reprinted, etc.without acknowledgement of Miriam Westereng, and Sig & Hank Christopherson

From 7 pages on Taylor:

EXCERPT:
Bowman Leslie
[Henry
I really don't know
maybe they said Bolyne - which was cousin nom?
to the Howards (D? [notations unreadable]

Here is one of the best tress I have yet to find on this branch of our family.
Coney Family Tree http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC &db=mconey&id=I1105

Miriam sent me some documents written by one of the...Hearns about the Taylors. 6 page typewritten copy.
Pg 7 was a handwritten family tree. I've been meaning to track down who had the original, as it is very hard to read. It goes back to "John Taylor married Elizabeth M. Haines"

WRITTEN BY A HEARN, The TAYLOR BIO
[ ] = Roys comments AUTHOR UNKNOWN PG 1 of 6. I have typed exactly what was written maybe 50-100 years ago, my apologies if any of the words offends "anyone". While many things have been rumor, this document provides vital evidence to substantiate some and bring more into question.
Roy Einar Christopherson

"The following is all I can remember of the family history and is very incomplete and perhaps inaccurate. RICHARD TAYLOR -- I understand was an English gentleman
[Notes written by Sigurdur ‘Sig’ Thorsteinn Christopherson Commision Officer Bischik(?) Ar (?)]
who came from Bristol in England and settled in Barbadoes island. My Brother Richard Taylor Hearn [ROY: note that this was written by a Hearn] was born on his 100th birthday and received his full name so that he must have been born May 2nd 1787.

He married a woman whose maiden name I believe was "Jones" -- she is said to have been a cousin of the then Duke of Norfolk, but was more or less disinherited [excomunicated - this orig text "disinherited" was struck out) because she had given up the Roman Catholic faith and married a Protestant.

I believe she had an uncle or some close relations living on the island by the name of Leslie, they were all apparently wealthy. "Aunt Fanny" [?] is said to tell the story of a certain "Bowman Leslie" who was riding about his estate in the Barbadoes Island one morning, and heard a negro wench singing a song. He told her he would give her a guinea if she would sing it again for him -- it was something like:

[Henry I really don't know maybe they said Bolyne - which was cousin nom? to the Howards (D? g no?? olles? Sig
This note was probably written to Hank Christopherson by his brother Sigurdur Christopherson ]
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He threw her the guinea and then struck her across the shoulders with his riding crop.

We have peculiar and beautiful man's gold ring with white enamel on which is engraved "Henry Leslie ob 12 June 1753 7M." which no doubt means Henry Leslie died June 12th 1753 aged 7 months.
[note from Sig: This would be 34 years before -3 words cut off]

MRS. TAYLOR -- her name may have been Jane ---
is said to have been a big healthy and handsome woman fond of pleasure and pleanty to eat and very extravagant so that she was a great worry to her husband. She is said to have had 21 children -- the youngest was Wm. Taylor, my Grandfather. He is said to have been born in Arundel Castle, the home of the Duke of Norfolk, where Mrs. Taylor [Jane] had gone on account of her health and not climate. Most of the children seem to have died as infants or children due to the various tropical fevers. They all had their own black mammy to care for them and no doubt to wet nurse them too.

Wm. TAYLOR -- as a child and boy, twice was so seriously ill that the Carpenter had made a coffin for him -- later this same catpenter made a tool box for him. [handwritten-Mary Taylor]

RICHARD TAYLOR -- seems to have been a man of considerable wealth with large estates, and many slaves--
[Hank, Dad said more than 600 slaves, Sig]
perhaps a hundred of them. These were liberated by the [R. Taylor before imancipation by]
British Government about 1833 and ["and" stiked out] many of them then came to him begging to be kept on as servants which he was unable to do. He had a government position in the Commissariat Dept. Mother understood. He used to sell
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good deal of the garden [replaced with Plantation] and etc.
as he really need the money.
They tell the story of a darky butler that had done something wrong and was put in the cellar to repent. Then he had had sufficient time to "repent" they called down to him "Moses, have you repented yet?" As he had not, they went down and found that he had sampled several bottles of wine or rum and was happily drunk.

In 1833 or 1834 there was a terrible hurricane that completly wrecked the house [and plantation], and Aunt Fanny, a girl of about 5 or 6 years was among the wreckage with a badly injured hip, probably a dislocation, from which she was always lame and went about with one crutch.

Sometime in the 1840's, the family moved to Kingston, Ontario where I think the parents died. JANE TAYLOR) Wm. Hearn came to Canada -- Kingston,
WM. HEARN ( from London, England, as a young man. He had been a chemist there and is said to have been very bright and attractive with charming manners. I have heard that he had a sister which married someone named Ireson -- a large transport firm in England. Another sister who married a man named Savage --
lived in Montreal I think, was left a widow and quite wealthy -- no family that I ever heard of. He had a brother who married and lived in Montreal years ago --
a partner in the firm of Hearn and Harrison, Optician and Surveying and Draughting Instruments ect. [Roy found book on this online] The firm was still doing business on one of the main streets in"
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May 1916. I believe this brother died and his wife married again.
JOHN TAYLOR -- met at Kingston and married an Elizabeth Mary haines. They moved to Perterboro where they had a boot and shoe store in George St. They later had a house opposite the Octagon House [Roy: Have not located this yet] At this time they adopted two little nieces, daughters of Wm. Taylor, these were Jane Taylor (about 4 years) and Susie Taylor (about 2 years) [notation-unable to read it] In 1874 or 1875, he became interested in a settlement of Icelanders in the Hallburton District. They were in terrible condition [settled? in poor houses at Kin???? where they worked on railway-Land unsuitable for settlers]
and he took up their cause with the Domion [Roy: Dominion?]Government and was later given charge of the colony and supervised moving them and setling them on a grant of land at Gimli on Lake Winnipeg, this was in 1876.

He [John Taylor] was wonderfully capable and scholarly man of absolute honesty, A Christian Gentleman.He died about 1887 in Milwaukee.
They adopted and Icelandic baby whom they named Rose. His wife later lived with her brother, Alf. Haines who kept a dug store in Brighton, Ont. and later retired and lived in Toronto at 373 Marguertta St. He died about 1912 and she died about 1920 at the age of 96?

WILLIAM TAYLOR - married a young Irish woman named Slemins,
[Isabelle Slimmons] she had probably come out from Ireland during the time of the famines; [C.W.?, Daughter? of John Slimmons]
she was young and bright and red headed.
She said such things as "men are either cross or crazy".
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[Lots of handwritten notes. Most unreadable-locate original]
She had five [struck out] six baby girls [and 1 ??? Richard who died in infancy] without much space between and died about the age of thirty - seven years.

A daughter "Lizzie" [Elizabeth Taylor] married a man named Carpenter [struck out-i,es L?????? ????ya]
had a family of several boys and girls -- she visited Toronto in 1897 [Stanton?, Smith, Carrie +Katie-Belle?] Their home was in Milwaukee [struck out] Michigan [second marriage to Carpenter, one son Ted?]

Another daughter, "Carrie" [Caroline] married an Icelander, Sigurdur Christopherson and lived at Grund, Manitoba, later moved to Crescent B.C. Had a family including Veiga [4?], William [2], John [1], Haldor [3], Susan [5], Kjartan [6], and Lillie [7], who died at 12 [11] years of age.

JANE TAYLOR born Sept. 11th 1859 [Toronto, Ontario, Canada] and died at Toronto May 3, 1929, married her cousin, Wm. Taylor Hearn [William Taylor Jr. Hearn, . He emigrated to Canada in the 1850's. According to his wedding certificate, he was married in 1859 in Kingston Upper Canada to Jane Taylor who was born in the Barbados in 1828. She was the daughter of Richard Taylor and Elizabeth Mehetabel Jones, who raised their family in the Barbados and emigrated to Kingston, Upper Canada in the 1840's
From the 1861 and 71 Census Jane and William lived in Ottawa [Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1861, in 1891 lived at St Albans Ward, York West, Ontario, Canada, Toronto South, Ontario in 1911, and 1369 Queen ST., W., Toronto in 1918, died 03 May 1929 at York, Ontario, Canada] where William was a chemist.], b. 1830 in London England. Children are Georgina HEARN, Hubbert Hearn, Alfred John Hearn, Richard Taylor HEARNE, and Percival HEARNE, b. 02 Jun 1892 at Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, William Stuart Taylor's Grandson, Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
Rank Capt.
CANADIAN OVER-SEAS EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, 5-1918
OCCUPATION: Physician, RELIGION: Presbyterian
ACTIVE MILITIA DO YOU BELONG: C.A.M.C. (H.M.T. Emp. OF Britain) BRITAIN
FORMER MILITARY SERVICE: R.N. Transport Service. 1 yr.4 mos.
Niagara Camp, Ont., August 1ST. 1918.
Percival m. Bernice Cumming Rouse]

Susie Taylor [Susanna Taylor, b. 28 Mar 1861, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, d. 29 Dec 1938 in Reykjavik, Iceland] was the youngest daughter. She married an Icelander named halldor Briem [Halldór Eggertsson Briem, b. 21 Mar 1880]. He didn't like the life in Canada. He belonged to a prominent family there and was Librarian in the University Library [Roy: capitol of Iceland?] until near the time of his death in 1930. They had 2 children, one died in Infancy, the other, Sigurdur Valdimar Briem, is a musician, married and now living in Reyjavik. [He was 72 years whenhowe? interviewed him in ?? material lost.

Wm. Taylor married again, a Miss McNeil [Eliza] and had several children [William hen?, Hebert ????
Isabelle [exact names are : Herbert Stuart Taylor, b. 13 Oct 1890 in California, Herbert William Taylor, and Isabella TAYLOR Badger PHOTO, b. 17 Jun 1874 in Lansing Michigan, m. Thomas Badger] He lived later in Manitoba near Grund and died about 1904. [His Third wife, married Sigridur? Sveinsson? a? Grund RICHARD TAYLOR - I think died from blood poisoning from some infection in the dissection room. [Studying? of? Misistry? accident? with Basball?]

FRANCIS TAYLOR (a.k.a. Aunt Fannie) -- severe injury to one hip as a child in
[?y] hurricane of 1833, and always lame, used a critch [crutch]. married a Mr. Moore who later ran off with a servant girl and took a lot of money and jewelery. Later she lived with Wm. Hearn [S???-]
in Toronto and later went to Grantwood, New Jersey U.S.A. [C???? Hearn
[Note: Left hand page-top-unreadable.
right hand margin has a paragraph Anna? married ???, son, Henry Ballard? Married ??????, daughter ??? & ???, Ruth? married ?] END Page 5 of 6

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and stayed with Chas. B. Hearn where she died and was buried at about 88, in 1909.

HENRIETTA TAYLOR -- was very deaf . married a Mr. Noble, said to have been Presbyterian Minister. They had two [3] children, a girl Frances, who married Frank [?] Watts, [??? ????]
lived in West Toronto and about 1900 moved out to Edmonton. Quite a large family who did real well [Frances Geo?]
Also a boy Frank, Noble who married and lived in some
small town [Tana?] in Ontario. [a daughter Henrietta? (Lita?0 who taught at Emerson there]

Aunt Henrietta was treated shamefully by her husband who later deserted he and her children.
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Pg 7 is a family tree, see scan ... Possible match Shropshire, England, Extracted Parish Records Shropshire, England, Extracted Parish Records Text: 06 Apr 1794 Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Jones & Elizabeth. Book: Baptisms at Minsterley. (Baptism) Collection: Shropshire: Westbury - Parish Registers, Hereford Diocese Source Information: Ancestry.com. Shropshire, England, Extracted Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Original data: Electronic databases created from various publications of parish and probate records. Description: This database is a collection of historical parish registers from Shropshire, England. The records in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. Parish records--primarily baptisms, marriages, and burials--provide the best sources of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. Baptismal records generally list the date of the baptism, the name of the child being baptized, and the name of the father. Marriage records generally include the date of the marriage and the names of the bride and groom. Burial records generally list the date of the burial and the name of the deceased individual. Occasionally burial records will include other bits of information, such as where the individual was from or if he/she was a widow. The 1881 Census - Who lived in Shotton? Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Thomas JONES Head M Male 72 Golftyn, Flint, Wales Retired Master Mariner Elizabeth JONES Wife M Female 71 Liverpool, Lancashire, England."

6 Page Bio transcribed by Roy Einar Christopherson in 2010