Taylor Query

[vita]

Could anyone please help Bestie's husband who is trying to find out more about his paternal side? He's got very little knowledge of this, being an only child
whose father died young in a tragic accident,& has only his grandfather's barest details - not even sure if he was 'John William Taylor' or just 'William.'
He was b abt 1879, possibly in Mansfield Woodhouse, & m Gertrude Lilian Westbury 23.12.07 Tamworth Baptist Tabernacle. He died 11.9.1910, Nottingham.

Thanks - I know this would mean a lot to him.

[Phoenix]

Hi Vita. If you have an exact date of marriage, do you have father's name, occupation and the names of witnesses?

[vita]

This is all Bestie's OH sent me, Phoenix. Don't think he has, but I'll ask. Re name - found out years later my father hadn't used all his Christian names at marriage !

[Phoenix]

Lol! My great grandfather added a few, to be interesting!

[Phoenix]

For reference, in 1911 the family were at 25 Rupert Street Nottingham:
Gertrude Taylor Head Widow Female 26 1885 Confectionary Samworth Staff
Alice Westbury Sister Single Female 31 1880 Assisting In Business Samworth Staffordshire
Donald Taylor Son - Male 2 1909 - Nottingham

It's crosssed out, but Gertrude says she was married 3 years ago and has one child.

[Phoenix]

Any idea who this is:

TAYLOR, FLORENCE GWENDOLINE WESTBURY
GRO Reference: 1911 D Quarter in TAMWORTH Volume 06B Page 828

[Phoenix]

I'd need to do more work on this, but it looks as if there were two Taylor/Westbury marriages in Tamworth RD. The other one was that of Florence Helena Westbury to Ernest Edmund Taylor. The women were both daughters of Joseph Westburys and it looks as if they were neice and aunt.

[Phoenix]

Unsurprisingly, there are quite a fewJohn/ William Taylors.

The marriage certificate would be very useful as it would also give your friend's grandfather's occupation as well.

[kiterunner]

He is just William Taylor on his death reg as well as on the marriage reg.

[vita]

Thanks, Phoenix & Kite - I'll pass this on & see if he can come up with anything else.

[Merry]

Might the accident be in the newspapers? If yes, then any article could possibly give a clue. (if you want anyone to look, the nature/date of the accident could be helpful)

Is the date of death from the death cert? Just that some tress on Ancestry have a different date.

[kiterunner]

Deceased Online has a William Taylor burial 14 Sep 1910 Nottinghamshire. But I don't know whether there would be any clues if you paid to view it. There are 4 others buried in the same grave so probably not going to be much help.

[Phoenix]

I looked 9 - 19 on FMP. But I suppose it might have been a colliery accident?

[vita]

I looked 9 - 19 on FMP. But I suppose it might have been a colliery accident?

No, Donald was a surveyor of some sort and fell from a roof.

I think friend was a teenager at the time, so it would probably be 1950s.

Pretty sure they would have been in Hertfordshire by then.

[Phoenix]

No, I meant the 1910 death. William would only have been about 30.

How dreadful for your friend to have his father die in such a way. We had a roofing client who slipped and it haunts me some 40 years on.

[Merry]

Sorry, I misread post #1 and thought the 1910 death was an accident.

[Phoenix]

And I wondered whether it was, simply because William was so very young. But of course it could have been tb, cancer, a burst appendix etc.

[vita]

Thought there was a bit of confusion - thought from your questions there might have been !
Yes, accident awful. Think that's a big part of why
he wants to learn more about grandfather's ancestry.

[vita]

1910 death was due to pernicious anemia.