'Taylor03'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Taylor of Bifrons, Taylor of Castle Taylor

Commoners reports that this family was orginally from Whitchurch in Shropshire.
Nathaniel Taylour (recorder of Colchester, MP for Bedfordshire)
m. _ Bridges (dau of Colonel _ Bridges of Wallingford)
1. John Taylor, 1st of Bifrons (Kent) (b 07.12.1655, d 04.04.1729)
  m. Olivia Tempest (d 1716, dau of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bart of Durham)
A. Brook Taylor of Bifrons (b 18.08.1685, d 1731, mathematician)
  m. Elizabeth Sawbridge (d 1729, dau of John Sawbridge of Olantigh)
  i. Elizabeth Taylor (bpt 25.03.1730)
  m. Sir William Young, Bart
  B. Herbert Taylor, later of Bifrons (bpt 15.05.1698, d 29.09.1763, rector of Hunton, vicar of Patrixbourn)
  m. Mary Wake (dau of Rev. _ Wake, nephew of (William), Archbishop (of Canterbury))
  Commoners identifies Mary as "daughter of Dr. Wake, prebendary of Canterbury, and nephew of Archbishop Wake, ancestor of Sir William Wake, bart. of Courteen". We assume that this means that she was connected to the Wakes of Courteenhall but we have yet to identify exactly how.
  i. Herbert Taylor of Bifrons (b c1731, d unm 19.11.1767)
  ii. Edward Taylor of Bifrons (b 26.08.1734)
  m. (1769) Margaret Payler (b 1743-4, d 27.04.1780, sister of Thomas Watkinson Payler of Kent)
  a. Edward Taylor of Bifrons (b 24.06.1774)
  m. (06.09.1802) Louisa Beckingham (dau of Rev. J.C. Beckingham of Bourn House)
  b. Sir Herbert Taylor (b 29.09.1779, Lt. General, MP) had issue (1 daughter)
  m. Charlotte Albinia Desbrowe (dau of Edward Desbrowe by Charlotte, dau of George, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire)
  c. Mary Elizabeth Taylor (d 02.06.1840)
  m. (19.04.1796) Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Lord Skelmersdale (b 07.03.1771, d 03.04.1853)
  d. Charlotte Taylor
  m. (03.03.1794) Edward Northey (d 02.1828, Canon of Windsor)
  e.+ other issue - Sir Brook (b 30.12.1776, envoy), William (d 16.07.1797), Bridges Watkinson (b 1778, d 24.02.1814, Captain RN), Margaret (d unm 24.10.1809)
  C.+ other issue (d young) - Upton, James, Nathaniel, John, Hannah
2.+ 17 others (including "several died young")

 

 

Walter Taylor
m. Catherine Staunton
1. John Taylor
  m. Anne Taylor (dau of Walter Taylor of Ballymacragh)
A. Walter Taylor of Castle Taylor in Ardraham, co. Galway
  m1. Anne Barry (d 21.03.1758, dau of James, 4th Earl of Barrymore)
  m2. (10.1766) Hester (Esther) Trench (sister of William, 1st Earl of Clancarty)
  i. Sir John Taylor of Castle Taylor, Sheriff of co. Galway (b 29.09.1771, d 12.1843, General)
  m. (24.04.1798) Albinia Frances Jeffreys (dau of St. John Jeffreys of Blarney Castle, widow of Lt. Col. Stephen Fremantle)
  a. Albinia Hester Taylor
  m. (28.03.1825) Francis Manley Shawe, later Shawe-Taylor of Castle Taylor, Sheriff of co. Galway (b 29.08.1797, d 1863, son of William Cunliffe Shawe of Southgate House by Philippa Pole)
  b. Cecilia Agnes Taylor (dsp 1882)
  m. (30.06.1842) Henry Cavendish Butler (son of Augustus Butler Danvers, son of Brinsley, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough)
  ii. Frances Taylor
  m. Robert O'Hara of Raheen
  iii. Elizabeth Taylor
  m1. George Stewart (Lt. Colonel)
  m2. (1812) Francis Synge of Glanmore Castle
  iv. Hester Taylor
  v. Anne Taylor (d 15.08.1844)
  m. (29.01.1795) Power Trench, Archbishop of Tuam (d 26.03.1839)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : Commoners (vol 3, Taylor of Bifrons)
(2) For lower section : BLG1886 (Taylor of Castle Taylor), BLGI1912 (Shawe-Taylor of Castle Taylor), BIFR1976 (Shawe-Taylor)
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