Research and Development
The purpose of this page to to hold "research" regarding the Taylor family. Isabella Slimmons [seen Slemen in census] married William and a source.
It is the process of Roy doing a genealogy search trying to go beyond current family members.
Following gets boring so feel free to pass onto more exotic finds within christopherson.net. There is no "Update Date" which is on many other pages at this site.
Rather, all of the following text will be revised on-the-fly or added to at any time.

KNOWN FACTS
Richard Taylor, John's father is the last known family member above Caroline 'Taylor' Christopherson. Richard was born 02 May 1787, Bristol England and lived in Barbados.
Richard was NOT born in Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
Residence: West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England in 1861 [1]
Death: Kingston, , Ontario, Canada.
The Taylor name shows on two plantations "prior" to Richards birth. Being fairly common, possible relatives or distant cousins, real distant.
More details about Richard's sons are here, John Taylor , and William Stuart Taylor .

Marriage to Elizabeth Mehetabel Jones

NOTES FOR: Elizabeth;
This site
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=mconey&id=I1105
Listed Richard married to a Jane Jones which Roy believes is wrong.

MAY 2012
View/Save the 2 Generation Richard TaylorSimple Register Report

MAY 2012
View/Save the 2 Generation William Stuart taylor Simple Register Report

William Stuart Taylor's daughter, Jane Taylor married into the Hearn family.
Cause I found this
Mary Hearn
P.O. Box 306
Clinton, ON N0M 1L0
Canada

William Hearn was born in London England in 1830. 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 where William was a chemist.
We are looking for information about William's parents, William and Ann Hearn, who lived in London England in 1859
Mary Hearn, if you are out there, please email Roy.
List of Herns in 1881 Census(s)

RnD
Possible match
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
Not Related

To pin down a timeline of Richard Taylor's military career, Richard was 20 years old in 1807 and had joined the British Army?
The system of sale of commissions came under scrutiny during the war, especially in connection with the Battle of Balaclava, which was notable for the ill-fated
Charge of the Light Brigade.

The staff work of the Commissariat Department, responsible for supplies and transport, proved unequal to the demands of the campaign. Supplies often arrived late, and were not distributed until they rotted. Commissariat officers adhered to arbitrary peacetime regulations, for example, refusing to issue nails in quantities less than one ton. The result was the death of many soldiers through disease (exacerbated by dietary deficiencies) and exposure during the winter of 1854-1855.[21]

The army was rebuilt with many raw recruits and young, inexperienced officers. In 1855, British troops were twice repulsed in their attempts to storm the Redan,
one of the fortifications of Sebastopol, while the French succeeded in capturing the Malakoff redoubt, compelling the Russians to abandon the city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_during_the_Victorian_Era

10th Hussars
Taylor, Thomas W. Letters of Captain Thomas William Taylor of the 10th Hussars, during the Waterloo Campaign from April 20th to August 2nd,
1815 Cambridge: Ken Trotman; 2002. 43 pages. Ken Trotman Military Monograph #4.

Commissariat Department of 1811 Google Books source

http://www.europeanheraldry.org/house_of_howard.html

Another resource are Census posted on this site here.

Bristol England ranks fourth in England’s top visitor destinations, according to wikitravel.

Richard and Elizabeth's Son, William Stuart Taylor married Isabella Slimmons.
John Slimmons of C.W. was Irish along with his daughter Isabella or Belle according to a census.
NOTE: Roy now believes that pair Isabella and John) were not our relatives. See new census page for correction.

William remarried two more times.
2nd wife was Eliza J. McNEIL b. 1833 in New York [1] OR 1937(?) in Petersboro, Province of Canada [1].
Eliza in 1883 died Argyle District, SW 18-6-14 (Rosemound),
Manitoba Province land breakdown = (Qtr Section-SouthWest), 18 (Section), 6 (Township), 14 (Range), See Argyle page for maps
While this branch of the family is important, Roy's focus is on William and Isabella at this time. Information always welcomed.

William's 3rd wife was Sigridur Thorarinson, widow of ___ Roy has this info somewhere. She dies 1910 [no citation]

Hand written notes in a Bio by a Hearn now at John's page had one notation by Sigurdur 'Sig' Christopherson mentioning:
"Bowman Leslie
[Henry
I really don't know
maybe they said Bolyne - which was cousin nom?
to the Howards"]
Hmm, let's try a search on Leslie Bolyne

First try this one "Elizabeth Mehetable Jones and Duke of Norfolk"
RESULT: Under Thomas HOWARD (4th D. Norfolk), 7th child was Jane Howard. Since it is said that our Jane or Elizabeth as Roy has seen
variations, she is a "cousin", not a direct relation to Howards. Then this could not be her. Update: Actually a cousin is a relation.

Did get this hit
V Elizabeth, ?m. . . . Jones of Gloucester, [The only evidence for the marriage is a tradition in the Jones family which takes color from specifications that
this Elizabeth Cary was mother to the Judith Jones of Gloucester who m. Wil-liam CaryS of Prince George (see post, p. 138), and that one of the children
of Frances (Jones) Anderson, a sister of Judith (Jones)
Cary, was named Thomas Cary. See statement of L. B. Anderson, 1872, in fF, M. Cary Notes,"]
source
Roy: Search on Leslie Bolyne or in Quotes goes nowhere. Past searches on the Howard Family Tree yielded nothing either.

RnD (Research and Developement) done on 4th of JULY 2011

New search "jane jones" and "Duke of norfolk"
Source
Oct 1, 2008 – become Lady Jane Jones (because she's a Lady by birth) or Lady ... her first name and surname: the eldest daughter of the Duke of Norfolk is ... 'source'

Roy: Hey maybe we have something here? Richard Taylor is said to have married Elizabeth Mehetabel Jones b. Abt. 1794 or Jane Jones,
according to the Mormons. I have seen both and at one time Richards wife had about 23 children, most died as infants due to the Barbados environment.

Here is the full text onee one of the postings and they were using names as example, not real people.

Re: Lady X Y marries Lord A B

Roy: Sorry, this is not our Jane Jones. Jane was suposedly "cousin" of then Duke of Norfolk.
Having not found any detailed family trees of the Howard family, hard to spot a Jones.

Okay, I've given in and dug out Debrett's Correct Form! No wonder there's
confusion over this. I'm quoting the whole paragraph:
"Daughter of a Duke, Marquess or Earl
A daughter of a Duke, Marquess or Earl has the style of 'the Lady' before
her first name and surname: the eldest daughter of the Duke of Norfolk is
the Lady Tessa Balfour, for instance. A daughter of those who by courtesy
enjoy the ***le of a Marquess or Earl has the identical style of 'Lady'. On
marriage she continues to use the same style, with her husband's surname:
if the Lady Mary Brown marries Mr John Black, she becomes Lady Mary Black.
In no case does she drop from 'the Lady Mary Brown' to 'the Hon Mrs Brown',
even though her husband his this prefix. Should she marry a peer, she
adopts his ***le: if the Lady Mary Brown marries the Earl of Flintshire, she
becomes the Countess of Flintshire, even though his precedence is lower than
hers. If she marries a courtesy lord, and the precedence she derives from
this is lower than that she derives from her father, she has the option of
adopting the usual style of the wife of a courtesy lord - Viscountess
Molesey; for example - or continuing her own style followed by the courtesy
***le: the Lady Mary Molesey. In practice very few ladies now adopt the
second course unless the marriage has been dissolved, as it is difficult to
determine the relative degree of precedence. It was generally used a
generation ago.
If she marries the younger son of a Duke or Marquess, who has the courtesy
style of Lord John Jones, again she has the option of adopting the usual
style of the wife of a younger son of a Duke or Marquess - the Lady John
Jones, for example - or continuing her own style followed by her surname:
the Lady Mary Jones."
So I was wrong in my example above with regard to Lady Lichfield - the
*choice* of how to be known applies only to ***led women who marry men with
courtesy ***les.
--
Sacha

Lets try "richard taylor" and "jane jones" one has to keep in mind when they were born and possible marriage dates.
We get a hit of 12 pages on Google.

We'll use one of Roy's favorite old games called Battleship


If the research is a Hit and related to our family, will be above or next to it.

If the research is a Miss, you will see

Having gone through search pages 1-6, doing an additional search of barbados genealogy
which leads to http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brbwgw/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brbwgw/RefCenter.htm
now entering Taylor at http://www.candoo.com/surnames/index.php
Two maps Roy has created regarding the Taylors is the sectional map of Barbados showing some Taylor House or Plantation(s) and
The travels of John Taylor with Timelines. John being one of Richard's sons.

http://www.candoo.com/surnames/search.php
According to copies of notes in Roy´s possesion, the Plantation and House were one in the same and not in distant Parish's. The Barbados map shows TAYLOR on the
map in three places. Roy spent a week piecing this 40" map together and scouring every inch for clues.
This Section A shows two Taylor locations within the border of ST. Michael Parish. This is very close to Bridgetown, which was the hub of the Island.

Now keep in mind that Roy has ABSOLUTELY no education in Genealogy Research. He is an amateur at best. Scouring the Internet in hit and misses
sometimes pays off. The more facts or clues, the more accurate the search. The best would be to fly down to Barbados. Yeah, not gonna happen!

Barbadoes Map appears to show two circles. Looking at the Legend, seems to be houses or 'with one Mill'.

RnD done on 5th of JULY 2011
Taking a break to read this webpage over about the 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Without a doubt, King Henry VIII is quite a character.
This keeps Roy from getting bored looking at hundreds of links trying to find matching keywords. One match may open up another, and another.
This leads into the Duke's family and "The Other Boleyn Girl" , Mary. If Elizabeth or Jane Jones was born 1794, this is all too early, so will look
into the 4th Duke of Norfolk.

RnD done on 6th of JULY 2011
Came across a word file that would not open. It had this paragraph amoung a lot of text.

"John TAYLOR, merchant St Michaels Parish 29 Apr 1717, RB6/4, p. 170. My wf Hannah TAYLOR...my son Richard TAYLOR...except the
land I bought of William GODMAN, decd; my wf Hannah and friend William PULMAN - Gdns to my son Richard; cousin Margaret HUTTON,
dau of sis Alice HUTTON; son John TAYLOR - Xtr. Wit: Henry DUKE, Thos. DUKE, Davd. WARREN. Proved 29 Aug 1717"

There was one to three Taylors on Barbadoes and could John Taylor be the father of Richard that I have sought for so long?
Obviously a search that I never followed up on right on my computer. The Dukes were thought to be a family from the Three Lakes back in England.
Saint Michael's Parish matches the Barbados map. Cool huh?
source

From old email from me to cousin
I downloaded the full version of that map. It was like 42 sections and I pieced it together inside Photoshop. Also one on Barbados, which it turns
out two Taylor houses or plantations existed at St. Michaels Parish prior to their father being born. I was under the impression that Richard Taylor
settled there after he served there in the military and William Stuart was born in Arundel Castle during a visit to London while visiting their cousin,
the Howards. Miriam Westereng sent me 5 pages and this is what she said about who might have written it.

..."I don't know who wrote those notes. If you read it back the writer talks about a brother born on the 100th birthday of a Richard Hearne?
[Roy: believe this would be 'Hearn'] Also a mention of an Aunt Lizzie -- wm Taylor had 3 wives was Eliza aunt lizzie?"...

RnD done on the of NOVEMBER 2011
For succinct details, please visit these pages
John Taylor Page 1, Page 2
William Stuart Taylor
Caroline nee Taylor Christopherson
Isabella Slimmons RnD

Looking over Roy's genealogy database on the details of Richard Taylor, Roy is going to repost his notes on Richard. First, a single word or
phrase often overlooked could give great leads in research. Here are two...

...Miriam sent me some documents written by one of the...Hearns about the Taylors. 6 page typewritten copy. In a box here somewhere.
Ah here it is
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"

See how the last name is 'Haines' not Jones
PG 1 of 6 states "RICHARD TAYLOR -- I understand was an English gentleman"

Researching "English gentleman". Hmm, not finding an exact definition. Wikipedia covers 'gentleman'. Would his wife marry a common man?
Maybe, if they were in love.
For a fact, they were of different religions which in the time was blasphemy which supports what the family history states about 'Ex-communication'.

Perhaps this is what Richard's father might have looked like. Possibly born in 1767,
if Richard was born when he was 20 years old.

Sir Thomas Sidley who is NO relation to us
Roy just enjoys a good visual graphic


And one of Roy's favorite Gentlemen from 'The Avengers'
Patrick Macnee

RICHARD TAYLOR NOTES IN ROYS DB
Coney Family Tree [Has many names of Richards Children and grandchildren.]
>The email address for the author is no good.

Here is the whole thing. I could send a scan of Pg 7 if you want. Really hard to read. I found that Coney family page with the relatives,
other searches yield little. Hope to focus more on this area now.

Cousin Miriam sent Roy some documents written by one of the...Hearns about the Taylors. 6 page typewritten copy. In a box here somewhere.
Ah here it is 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". Appears Sig, brother of henry 'Hank' Christopherson, wrote notes and then it got to Miriam.
[ ] = Roys comments

TAYLOR STORY - The Tale of Bowman Leslie
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"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. [meaning Richard Taylor, GGG GF of Roy,
father of John & William Taylor, Grandfather of Caroline Taylor Christopherson]
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
[Maybe 1807 if she was born abt. 1787] ,
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.
[Fanny may have been Francis] He told her he would give her a guinea if she would sing it again for him -- it was something like:
High Bowman, low Bowman,
High Bowman Leslie
Look upon Guinea Hill and you will see
Gold and Silver,
Look upon Guinea Hill and you will see
Bowman Leslie
[Henry,
I really don't know
maybe they said Bolyne - which was cousin nom?
to the Howards (D?
g no?? olles?
Sig]
End Page 1 of 6
[Found one "Guinea Hill, St. John"]

Page 2 of 6
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: Tealthy 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 -- his would be 34 years before -3 words cut off]
MRS. TAYLOR -- her name may have been Jane ---
is said to have been a big hthe 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
End Page 2 of 6

Page 3 of 6
" 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"
END Page 3 of 6

Page 4 of 6
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 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".

End Page 4 of 6

Page 5 of 6
[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" 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 and died at Toronto May 3, 1929, married her cousin, Wm. Taylor Hearn.
Susie Taylor was the youngest daughter. She married an Icelander named halldor Briem. 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]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 -- severe injury to one hip as a child in
[?y] hurricane of 1833, and always lame, used a critch. 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

Page 6 of 6
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,
1. 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?]
2. Also a boy Frank, Noble who married and lived in some small town [Tana?] in Ontario.

3. [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.
end pg 6 of 6"
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
Not Related

To pin down a timeline of Richard Taylor military career, he was 20 in 1807 and had joined the British Army?
The system of sale of commissions came under scrutiny during the war, especially in connection with the Battle of Balaclava, which was notable for
the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.

The staff work of the Commissariat Department, responsible for supplies and transport, proved unequal to the demands of the campaign. Supplies often
arrived late, and were not distributed until they rotted. Commissariat officers adhered to arbitrary peacetime regulations, for example, refusing to issue
nails in quantities less than one ton. The result was the death of many soldiers through disease (exacerbated by dietary deficiencies) and exposure during
the winter of 1854-1855.[21]

The army was rebuilt with many raw recruits and young, inexperienced officers. In 1855, British troops were twice repulsed in their attempts to storm the
Redan, one of the fortifications of Sebastopol, while the French succeeded in capturing the Malakoff redoubt, compelling the Russians to abandon the city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_during_the_Victorian_Era

10th Hussars
Taylor, Thomas W. Letters of Captain Thomas William Taylor of the 10th Hussars, during the Waterloo Campaign from April 20th to August 2nd,
1815 Cambridge: Ken Trotman; 2002. 43 pages. Ken Trotman Military Monograph #4.

Commissariat Department of 1811, Source: Google Books

'Daughters of The American Revolution'
John Norris, (1736-81), served as a private in Capt. John Taylor's company of Maryland troops. He was born in Dor- chester county; died in St. Mary's county, Md.
Roy has not found any connections to the Taylors and the American Taylor Familes, yet this may serve regarding a mix up of persons.
30 of 68 Taylors in online book., see Citation [2]

HISTORY OF HARFORD COUNTY
;;;Smith made a fairly accurate map of the head waters of the bay, the islands and adjacent shores, and called the river now known as Bush river,
which lies wholly in Harford county, "Willowby's river," in honor of the town in which he was bom in England. The bay shore of Harford county,
starting with Pool's Island, then coming to the mouth of Bush river. Abbey Island Point, along the shore to Taylor's Island at the mouth of Rumney Creek,
then along by Spesutie Island past Oakington to Havre de Grace, is beautiful at all times and particularly so in summer, and no wonder Smith said that
"heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation." ... 1 of 61 Taylors

44 HISTORY OF HARFORD COUNTY
...After so many false starts, Joppa was now fairly on her way. The "Act for erecting a town at Joppa, in Baltimore county, and for securing the land
whereon the courthouse and prison are built," was passed by the General Assembly at the October session, in 1724. By this act Thomas ToIIey,
Capt. John Taylor, Daniel Scott, Lancelot Todd and John Stokes were appointed town commissioners. On the 20th of April, 1725, Messrs. Tolley,
Taylor and Scott met at Joppa, and proceeded to lay off twenty-one acres of land — one acre for the use of St. John's Parish Church —
for the use of the town. The town was laid out into forty lots, exclusive of the church lot, and divided by Court street and Church street,
running east and west, and Low... see citation 3, ref 4 of 61 Taylors. Does not appear to be Barbados.

HISTORY OF EARfORD COUNTY. IIJ Captain John Taylor's Company. — No, 7, Witness our hands and seals this 9th day of Septem- ber, 1775 :
John Taylor, Captain. Robert Travis, Samuel Caldwell, Lieut. Samuel Richman, Thomas Hutchins, 2d Lt. Thomas Hutchins, Vincent Richardson,
En- John Qui 15 of 61 citation [3]

28 K. D. Keith, “The Memoirs of Captain Kosciuszko D. Keith,” (Luling, Texas: 27-page unpublished manuscript, February, 1896), p. 17; Nancy N. Barker,
The French Legation in Texas (2 volumes; Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1973), I, p. 122. The Elizabeth returned to Sabine Lake in 1838, but
refused to pay tonnage fees to the Texas collector of customs. She was probably the unnamed English brig, which remained anchored for weeks while her
crew cut and loaded a cargo of cypress logs. See (Houston) Telegraph and Texas Register, March 17, 1838, and R. E. L. Crane, “The History of The
Revenue Service and Commerce of The Republic of Texas” (unpublished doctoral dissertation; University of Texas, 1950), p. 270. citation [4]

CITATIONS 1. Ancestry.com

[2]

[3]

[4]

DEC. 01, 2011
This may lead to John Taylors wife under Haines, then again, IT's ROY's TREE, not someone elses. OMG! I am researching my own research!
"John Taylor" married "Elizabeth M. Haines"
Below is 2nd Link
http://records.ancestry.com/Elizabeth_Mary_Haines_records.ashx?pid=56208121

Elizabeth Mary Haines ( - 1920)

Born to Haines. Elizabeth Mary married John Taylor and had a child. She passed away on 1920 in Approx.

husband

Unknown-1887
Roy's Tree at Ancestry

Rose Taylor

also page on Rose Taylor ( - 1950) Born to John Taylor and Elizabeth Mary Haines. Rose married Thomas Banks and had 2 children.
She passed away on 1950.
spouse Thomas Banks Unknown-Unknown
Daughter 1: Bessie Banks
[Bessie may be short for Elizabeth]

Daughter 2: Greta Banks
Greta married Sayers and had 3 children. She passed away on 1947.
2a. Doreen Sayers
2b. Private
2c. Thelma Sayers

Roy wishes he did not give up his Ancestry membership.
This looks very interesting and may actually be a picture of John or possibly incorrect as Roy proved with Greta Garbo as no relation.
http://records.ancestry.com/John_Taylor_records.ashx?pid=68191699

From Ancestry: BANKS NAME MEANING English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on the slope of a hillside
or by a riverbank, from northern Middle English banke (from Old Danish banke). The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form,
but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.

Current seraches open in Roys web browser. usually not related to our John taylor.
"taylor plantation" and "barbadoes" and 1700
https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22taylor+plantation%22+and+%22barbadoes%22+and+1700
Link on Henry Taylor looks interesting...pending

2. http://genforum.genealogy.com/barbados/messages/2430.html
researched down1/4 way to here " Are there Barbados records on line anywhere - John Bennett 5/23/07 "

This was link prior to next one
http://genforum.genealogy.com/barbados/messages/2430.html

Entered into Google.com
"English Settlers in Barbados 1637 - 1800" viewed two search pages already
"English Settlers in Barbados 1637 - 1800" and taylor
"English Settlers in Barbados 1637 - 1800" and "richard taylor"

Next serach
http://genforum.genealogy.com/barbados/all.html
Viewed homas Taylor M Sarah ? 1650's - arthur taylor 8/19/04 1/3rd way down page

English Settlers in Barbados 1637 - 1800"good ref. source"?
http://genforum.genealogy.com/barbados/messages/2514.html

New search
http://genforum.genealogy.com/barbados/messages/1698.html
Seems an unlikely relation, yet Roy has seen Thomas Taylor and England. This one as in South Carolina.

Web Tab 6
"rootsweb.com" and "taylor, richard"

Pasting here cause my computers about to crash!!!!!!!!!! and with 8GBs memory, jeez!
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harrisonrep/HarrList/msg00705.html
Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:40:15 -0700 Resent-From: HARRISON-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Message-Id: <"ZcVVvD.A.ijG.JGbvz"@bl-14.rootsweb.com>
Resent-Sender: HARRISON-L-request@rootsweb.com
Looking for info on the following lines: Richard TAYLOR - b. England d ? - Unknown spouse. Richard had a son also with the name of
Richard Taylor. Richard TAYLOR - b. 7/6/1837 in England, d. 3/1/1918 in Kalamazoo, MI m. Elizabeth Ann THACKERY - b. 5/4/1849
in England, d. 10/19/1829 Kalamazoo, MI. They had a daughter named Elizabeth Ann Taylor (b.1/21/1867 MI, d. 3/11/1925 in Kalamazoo,
MI) who was believed to have first married a NELSON and then married Grant Charles HARRISON (b. 1867 in Pokagon, MI - d. abt. 1925
in MI). Elizabeth and Grant had a daughter Mabel that died very young and a son Grant Taylor HARRISON (b. 10/4/1907 in Pullman, MI - d. 12/1/1969
in Grand Rapids, MI). Elizabeth Ann Thackeray was the daughter of David Thackeray (b. England) and Jane Brown (b. England). Dates unknown.
Grant Charles HARRISON was the son of Isaac D. HARRISON (b.? - d.?) and Eliza SHATTUCK (b.? - d.?) Dates and places unknown.
Anyone with connections to any of these???????? James B. Harrison HarryJBH@aol.com

Web tab 7
taylor and "coney family tree"
Viewed links 2 and 9 already

Holy Moly, this page has 352 'Haines'
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=teincnj&id=I033807
First 6, no match! 15 elizabeth Haines, no matches on the 15, keep as ref.

Isn't that funny, I come across my own tree at Ancestry.

002609-88 Thomas HEARN, 32, farmer, Mayfield Peel Co., same, s/o William HEARN & Margaret O’SHAUGHNESSY, married Mary BENCH, (BURCH?), 24, Amaranth Tp. Mono Tp., d/o John BENCH & Ann
CURRY, witn: E. J. HEARNE (sic) of Tottenham Ont., & M. PAPE of Hastings Co. on Feb. 10, 1888 at Orangeville. (Cath)
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/duff88.htm


December, 2011
New search for Bowman Leslie of Barbados
chronicle barbados
Barbados Census 1680 - St. John Parish

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brbwgw/1680CensusStJohn.htm
shows a
Leslie Cap:t John 
Leslie M:rs Ann
plus
Tayler M:r Robert 
Taylor Phillipe 

12/15/2011
You may ask, why research by the name of Taylor. The City of Kingston Historical Soc have been less than helpful. Hence forth, Roy
sometimes resorts to obscure associations by scouring the Internet. One was of Johnnie Christopherson which at the time was a similar excursion
into the depths of the Internet. later on, Roy realizing this was a relative. So feel free to pass on the following excursion.

Due to dates, this is not our Richard Taylor. Having not heard of this English gentleman, nor his deceased associate, William Taylor,
born before our William, yet could they be related? Look up location of Bristol VS. Norwich Eng. - Interesting "Vied with Bristol as England's second city."
http://books.google.com/books?id=hkUJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Wiki on William [Not our william]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Taylor_(man_of_letters)

Not related yet an interesting read. [Not our william...]
 He died on 27 March 1886. Lady Taylor died on 1 January 1891. A son and three daughters survived them
Sir Henry Taylor, author of ‘Philip Van Artevelde,’ born on 18 October 1800 at Bishop-Middleham, Durham, was the third son of George Taylor (1772-1851).
George Taylor was the younger son of a squire who had an estate of some seven hundred acres at Swinhoe-Bromford in the parish of Bamborough, Northumberland.
The squire was under a cloud and the property encumbered, and George was brought up by an uncle, without definite prospects. On 23 April 1797 he married
Eleanor Ashworth, daughter of an ironmonger at Durham, and settled on a farm at Bishop-Middleham. His wife died when Henry, her third son, was an infant in arms. George

Taylor and his wife had literary tastes, and were ardent admirers of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. He is described by Southey as having the ‘better part of an

antique Roman about him.’
source: http://www.historyhome.co.uk/people/taylor-h.htm
An even better source on this family is here.

This source "North Country Lore and Legends", cites his siblings which were of the time of our William and John which are not listed here. Page 425 - 426 mention

Sir Henry Taylor's Father, b. June 6, 1772 named George, and Grandfather; George. Many a time a simple connection gains either a connection, or at the very least, education.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I22018&ged=auden-bicknell.ged [Not our william...]

TAYLOR OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
Paragraph 1 to 3...no hits. This Taylor does seem to be the same on Pg 40 of 888 in the John-Taylor-Born-1327 document below.
Still no relationships and spotty lineage, yet better than most.

Good source for looking up GRAVES. Interment - Cemetary Internments Online
10 pages on Taylors and no hits. No relation to Pres. Zachary Taylor at this time. In fact, there is no relations to ANY Taylors in Virginia and east coast...so far.
Now could there be a connection before Richard Taylor...only time will tell. Roy has gone through many of the families in that area to find no connections.

This leads to CousinConnect.

Rowland Taylor (wiki)

Descendants-of-John-Taylor-Born-1327 at scribd
Taylors of 1300's which may help down the road in search of Richard Taylors father. Up to page 71 of 888, no relationship yet and most are in America,
This page does list the President if anyone is looking for this Zachary Taylor's branch. He was born three years before our Richard.


CITATIONS
[1] Public Tree, Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA, 2006

FEB 10th 2012
Pasting eE-mail from Cousin Bruce Costello from APR 2010 about his recollections and "first hand info passed down"...
When I was about 10 or 11 Grandma Rooney (Gudrun Christopherson, nee Stoneson) sat me down and told me that Grandpa K's grandfather
(was it John or William Taylor - I get confused sometimes) had been born in Arundel Castle [ref. to William Stuart Taylor], that there was some
sort of romance that his mom and dad had fled England to Barbados because Catholics and Protestants were then forbidden to marry.
They returned years later with our G-G Grandfather Taylor.

She also said the mother was either a niece or daughter of the Duke of Norfolk and thus part of the Fitzalan-Howard family.
The Howards go back to the first Duke who fell at Bosworth Field alongside Richard III in 1485 and the story is recounted in Shakespeare's play.
The Fitzalan are also the Stuart monarchs of Scotland and later Scotland and England and Wales.

I believe that first Uncle Lorne and later Uncle Sig researched these claims but were never able to solidly establish the link.
Stefani disagrees with me and said her dad did indeed establish the link and visited Arundel castle in WW-II, though was
unable to meet our alleged 'kinsman' the Duke due to his being busy in Churchills war cabinet.

I am curious and wonder if you have definitively settled this matter. How could it have become family lore I wonder - was it the wistful
dream of a hard-scrabble plains frontier family, reality, or some other explanation stranger than the others.
End email

APR 2012: One issue is finding a detailed list of this branch that would show a niece.

The following would support conflict of intermarriage between religions
Regarding Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
Howard was second cousin of the Queen. He was committed to the Tower of London on 25 April 1585. While charges of high treason were never proved,
he spent ten years in the Tower, until his death of dysentery. He had petitioned the Queen as he lay dying to allow him to see his wife and his son, who
had been born after his imprisonment. The Queen responded that if "If he will but once attend the Protestant Service, he shall not only see his wife and
children, but be restored to his honors and estates with every mark of my royal favor." To this, Saint Philip replied, "Tell Her Majesty, if my religion be
the cause for which I suffer, sorry I am that I have but one life to lose." He refused and died alone in the Tower. He was immediately acclaimed as a
Catholic Martyr.

Written by a Hearn:
"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."

This would state Richards wife's maiden name was Jones and she was a cousin. Possibly Duke during 1814.

APR 2012: This Taylor Cemetery does NOT appear related.

From Page 2 of 6 above...Henry Leslie ob 12 June 1753
Not related yet may shed light on origins of Leslie name:

source: Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Another] By John Debrett
Google Books

(21.) John Taylor never became a cultural hero among the Western Icelanders in the way Reverend Jon Bjarnason or Pall Porlaksson did, probably because of his non-Icelandic origin.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb039/is_2_33/ai_n28889311/pg_9/

Email from cousin Miriam Westereng to Roy
10/29/2009 12:55 AM
Thank you, I found a source with the name you gave me. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/r/e/Terrance-R-Greatrex/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1334.html
It's a start. Sidney is in B.C? So there was a fire at Carrie's place?

It was a shame that fellow did not have todays scanners back in the 80's.
Hi Roy,
It's me again!
> Re:the Badger's
> There is a blurb about the family on page 288 in come into our heritage book. Isabella [Badger] lived with Caroline and Sigurdur.
> Carrie May Jean Badger b.1917 married Edmund Green.
> Carrie lives in Sidney on Vancouver Island if she is still living. I After my mother died in 2001,
> in my mother's pictures I found a picture of Aunt Bell taken about 1937. I did not make copies for myself. I sent them to Carrie.
She was so grateful as they were the only pictures she had of her mother as all others had been lost in a fire? She sent me a very caring, thank you note.
>
> According to the write up her chiildren's names are Dennis. Larry Thomas, Calvin Wayne and Allan Randy Green
>
> miriam

Carrie May Green Obituary(Archived) Published in The Times Colonist from December 29 to December 30, 2010 First 25 of 116 words:
GREEN, Carrie May Jean (nee Badger) Born in Glenboro, Manitoba on January 18th 1917 and died peacefully in Sidney, British Columbia on December 24th 2010...


Ontario (Rosseau in the Muskoka area and Kinmount
source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb039/is_2_33/ai_n28889311/?tag=content;col1

RnD done on 22nd of APRIL 2012
Under Paragraph one of the Taylor Story - The Tale of Leslie Bowman, above, found a Bowman Leslie,

32. BOWMAN LESLIE - International Genealogical Index 
Gender: Male Marriage: 25 JAN 1752 Saint John, Barbados, Caribbean 
Family branch

This leads to
Brigadeer General Henry Leslie b c 1694 Barbados, m Katherine
This leads to
A SEARCH FOR LESLIE FAMILY HISTORY IN BARBADOS The Clan Leslie Society International
Read page 4 and 5. They mention a Henry Bowman Leslie.
Getting warmer. Doing a chart and re-reading the Taylor Story, Roy spots this
...Henry Leslie ob 12 June 1753... (excerpt from Taylor Story - The Tale of Leslie Bowman). The Tale above has Bowman Leslie
told as a song and a ring stating Henry leslie. Could it be Henry Bowman Leslie?
Browser tabs open is about 35 and ready to crash Roy's system.

Search on "Henry Leslie" died 12 June 1753
Leads to Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Now to compare to Leslie Clan Newsletter. Above our historical Bio mentions Bowman Leslie was said to be an Uncle of unknown Jones or close relative on Barbadoes.

Roy re-reads the page above and does a search on Elizabeth Mehetabel Jones and richard taylor"
Hit NO. 1 This is above under Mary Hearn. To date have never heard from Mary.
Hit NO. 2 This Richard matches our Birthday of 1787

1. Taylor, Richard - Birth/Chris: ... 1808 at ...
2. Taylor, George - Birth/Chris: ... 1810 at ...
3. Taylor, Elizabeth - Birth/Chris: ... 1811 at ...
4. Taylor, Abel - Birth/Chris: ... 1815 at ...
5. Taylor, Alfred - Birth/Chris: ... 1818 at ...
6. Taylor, Mary - Birth/Chris: ... 1821 at ...
7. Taylor, Frances - Birth/Chris: ... 1823 at ...
8. Taylor, Henrietta - Birth/Chris: ... 1825 at ...
9. Taylor, Caroline - Birth/Chris: ... 1828 at ...
10. Taylor, William Stuart - Birth/Chris: ... 1830 at ...
11. Taylor, Jane - Birth/Chris: ... 1830 at ...
12. Taylor, John - at ...

Finally a HIT!!!!!! Here we match Richard, his wifes name, Daughters Frances/Francis, Henrietta, William Stuart, and John.
A good majority of the children, 23? died at childbirth. Now to back-track these records. Who-Hooo.

Roy gets some much needed sleep. Awaiting reply from Leslie Clan genealogist. Now to do search on Bowman.

RnD done on 24th of APRIL 2012
Posting a tree from the year 2000. It ends that year. Did Michael Coney pass on, find a new hobby?
Hope the following chart gives a better visual representation of the family. More info to add later.
Due to William's 3 wives, the chart helps show who is who. No intention of replacing the Surname Section. M. Coney had most of Christopherson branch incomplete!