{"id":34,"date":"2016-08-02T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/taylorsandtottens\/?p=34"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:56:22","slug":"tangled-taylors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/2016\/08\/02\/tangled-taylors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Taylors"},"content":{"rendered":"

– the unravelling continues.<\/p>\n

Well, I think I’ve proven my first Taylor connection using DNA (and possibly disproved one). In my Taylors there are a few matches that were pointed to a John W. Taylor. He and his family were next to my great great grandparents, David A. and Emily (Cole) Taylor, in the 1861 census. I have always suspected this was a brother but had no proof. There are at least 3 and possibly 4 different origin Taylor families in the four surrounding parishes. There is a tangle of Taylors.<\/p>\n

To make things worse, I found out that a couple of these DNA cousins were of children of John W’s second marriage to Susannah Cole who is either a cousin or a sister to Emily Cole. So it is within the realm of possibility these connections may have just been Cole and Taylor is a red-herring.<\/p>\n

Then, through the wonderfulness of the web, I found one of John W.’s children on Wikitree. Ollister A. (as the name was spelled in the 1861 census for Brunswick Parish in Queens Co., NB) – who I thought was either a Holister or an Allister – is an Allister Alexander. It turns out he had moved to Nova Scotia, possibly by way of Maine, which is why he had disappeared. Through the source material referenced in the profile, I was able to find his death certificate<\/a>. It gave another clue, his father’s middle name, Wallace. David A. Taylor’s first child was named Wallace. It also gave Rachel’s maiden name – Price – another boon (after much discussion on the NB genealogy Facebook group).<\/p>\n

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Section of Allister’s death certificate showing his parents names.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are not many Wallace Taylors before John’s birth date but there were the well-loved ministers of the James Wallace<\/a> family. Deacon David Wallace’s daughter Julia did marry a John Stone Taylor but I haven’t yet looked into that family in any real way. John Wallace presided over John and Susannah’s marriage<\/a>. All of this is still circumstantial and undocumented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– the unravelling continues. Well, I think I’ve proven my first Taylor connection using DNA (and possibly disproved one). In my Taylors there are a few matches that were pointed to a John W. Taylor. He and his family were next to my great great grandparents, David A. and Emily …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-general","category-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockshoreidyll.ca\/intervaleshightides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}