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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Donald Taylor & Christina Murray

This photograph was taken at Belle River Scotland Cemetery, Belle River, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada by Karen Dicks Miller.

In

Memory of

Donald Taylor

Died

Jan. 2. 1853

Aet. 65

Also his wife

Christina Murray

Died

Jan. 28. 1882

AEt. 87

Natives of Cantire.

Argyleshire, Scotland

Donald Taylor and his wife, Christina Murray were the first Taylor immigrants to North America from Scotland for our Taylor line. They are my 3^rd great grandparents from my mother’s paternal line. Donald was from the Skipness area, possibly Claonaig and Christina from Tarbert.  They sailed from Greenock on the ship “Alexander” on April 20, 1820 and arrived in Prince Edward Island on May 22.  They had three young boys with them on the voyage:  Archibald, age 5, Neil, age 4 and an infant, John.  They settled in Rustico, and then leased land in Wood Islands in about 1824.  There were 8 more children born on the island: Malcolm, twins Donald and William, James, Duncan, Alexander, Angus and one daughter Mary.  Donald was a wheelwright and farmer.  Note: the Mull of Kintyre is misspelled on the stone as Cantire.

Sources for this information:

Find A Grave, Find a Grave, Inc., Find a Grave (http://findagrave.com : accessed 24 May 2016), transcriptions and digital images, memorial 129905814, created by Karen Dicks Miller on 16 May 2014.

The Edinburgh Adviser, 25 Apr 1820, page 262, appearing at Newspaper Archive (http://www.newspaperarchive.com)

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Sandra Steele DeFord, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Donald Taylor & Christina Murray" (http://catchingtimeblog.blogspot.com : posted 24 May 2016).

Ella Sarah Allen

 

My great-grandmother, Ella Sarah Allen was born 10 Jan 1861 in Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, the fourth child of William Edward Allen (b. 1834 Boughton Island) and Zilpha Ann Head (b. 15 Jan 1831, Ugborough, Devon, England). She left for Boston in 1880 and worked as a domestic for a widower and his family. She married Daniel Taylor, of Wood Islands (the son of John Taylor & Eunice Hume) in Gloucester, 1882. He worked as a ship carpenter. They had 7 children. She died in Gloucester of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1935. I am still looking for a photo of her husband.

Mothers & Daughters - Five Generations

My Mother, Ethel and Me, 2010, Shepherd, Montana

My Mother & Me, 1960, Beverly, Massachusetts

Ethel Zylpha Taylor, 1930, Beverly, Massachusetts

Three Generations of Mothers: Ethel Jane Bruce, Hazel Witham, Ethel Taylor, Rockport, Massachusetts

Hazel with her daughter, Ethel, c. 1913, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hazel with her mother, Ethel Jane Bruce, c. 1940

My grandmother, Hazel Marguerite Witham

My great grandmother, Ethel Jane Bruce, born in Lockeport, Nova Scotia

My great great grandmother, Rebecca Lisk, born in Nova Scotia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four Generations

 

One Hundred Years Ago

My father was born one hundred years ago today.  He told me the story once of how he hid under the front steps at his family's home at 40 Bow Street, Beverly, Massachusetts, when the fire wagon approached.  There were horses galloping, the firehouse dog was barking and men hollering, which made for a frightfully noisy scene.  That would have been about 1915 to 1920.  It is amazing to me, the advance of technology that his generation saw.  From horse and wagon to men on the moon!

 Dick Steele, c. 1985

 Dick with his older brother, Fred, the truck driver, circa 1920.

 Richard Andrew Steele, c. 1945

Dick and Fred on the Beverly Police Force.