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The Taylor family |
The Taylor family (as far back as I have been able to get with them) appear to come from Northumberland. The earliest ancestor was a stonemason in Morpeth, which is just North of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. At some point, the family moved to Earsdon in Northumberland and settled there. His son followed in his footsteps and there are a number of Taylors buried in the churchyard of St. Alban's church, Earsdon. A daughter, Eleanor, managed to have no less than 4 'accidents' and ended up living in a small pit village in Durham with only a 'lodger' and her children. Definitely the black sheep of the family. I guess everyone has one. She was ours. One of her daughters, Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress), married into the Blenkinsop family and became the mother of my father's mother. |
The Taylor family line: |
Thomas b.Morpeth, Northumberland in 1788, d 1841 in Earsdon. He married Esther PEACOCK (b.1778 Hazon, Shilbottle, d. 1834 in Morpeth) and had 3 children - John, Elizabeth, and Eleanor (see below). He later married Elizabeth RIDLEY and had four further children - William, Thomas, Joseph and Dorothy. Eleanor b.Morpeth, Northumberland in 1819. She did not marry but lived for a long time in Sacriston, County Durham and had one son, William, and three daughters - Ellen, Elizabeth and Mary Ann. Elizabeth b.Witton Gilbert (near Sacriston) in 1851.She married Richard BLENKINSOP and had two sons, Richard and William and a daughter who was: Elizabeth Ellen - b 1886 in Chester-Le-Street, County Durham. She married Thomas MORTON and had two sons (Thomas and John)and one daughter (Elizabeth): my uncle, father and aunt. Elizabeth Ellen died of kidney failure in 1918 at the early age of thirty-two, leaving a young family. |
Thomas Morton, husband of Elizabeth Ellen Blenkinsop, whose mother was a Taylor. |
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I am indebted to Sue Horsman, my 4th cousin on the Taylor side, who has given me a lot of family information. Thanks, Sue ! |
My father, John Morton, son of Thomas Morton and Elizabeth Ellen Blenkinsop. |
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Elizabeth Ellen Blenkinsop - daughter of Elizabeth TAYLOR. |
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