Daniel Taylor 1849-1919
Daniel Taylor is my paternal great grandfather. I have never seen a photograph of him until now. This image came to me from a cousin, Allen
Head who I have been corresponding with for about 2 years. He was the recipient
of several pieces of memorabilia from another cousin, Jane Apitz Doran who is a
descendant of Lottie Head.
Daniel Taylor was born January 8, 1849 in Wood
Islands, on the southern shore of Prince Edward Island, Canada to John Taylor
and Eunice Hume. His paternal
grandfather, Donald Taylor arrived to the island from Skipness, Scotland in
1820 with three small boys. Daniel’s father, John was one of them. Daniel is the first of this Taylor line to
immigrate to the United States.
Map of Wood Islands
Daniel first married Margaret Campbell on June 1, 1874
at the Bonshaw Presbyterian Church on the island. He went to Boston in 1875 to work as a ship
carpenter. He is listed on the 1880
census as a widower at 13 Bennington Street, East Boston living with another
ship carpenter. I have been unable to locate more information about Margaret.
Bonshaw Presbyterian Church
He then married Ella Sarah Allen on March 21, 1882 in
Gloucester. Ella was the daughter of William Allen and Zylpha Ann Head. Ella, too, left Prince Edward Island for Boston
and was working as a domestic servant for a widower and his two boys in 1880. Whether Daniel and Ella met in Boston or
Gloucester is unclear. However, my supposition
is that they met in Gloucester, which is a far smaller city than Boston with
more opportunities to mingle. They are both listed as residents of Gloucester on
their marriage record.
Marriage Record of Daniel Taylor and Ella S. Allen (Near the bottom of the page)
On September 27, 1886, Daniel filed a Petition for
Naturalization and was granted citizenship on the same day in U.S. District
Court, Boston. His witnesses were Eurastis
Howes, a Gloucester ship carpenter and Leo Campbell a mariner from East Boston
that had previously lived in Gloucester. Leo was about the same age as Daniel
and also born in Prince Edward Island. He may have been related to Daniel’s
first wife, Margaret Campbell.
Naturalization Petition and Certificate, 27 Sep 1886
Daniel worked as a ship carpenter at the Burnham
Brothers Marine Railway on Wharf St. which is now at Harbor Loop next to the Gloucester
Maritime Heritage Center.
In several Gloucester directories he is listed as a foreman carpenter at
the railway. This facility was built in 1849 and is the oldest continuously
working marine railway in the country.
The Railway From the Harbor, Date Unknown
Lot Map, dated 1917. The Taylor house is at the corner of Locust and Water Streets
The family lived in the same harborside
neighborhood as the railway at 12 Locust Street for 51 years, which was close
to the home of artist Fitz Hugh Lane which still remains. After the area was ravaged by several fires
in the mid-1950’s the area was finally demolished in 1966 to form the Harbor
Loop. Looking at an old map of the area,
I would imagine Daniel walked home for his mid-day meal.
He and Ella raised eight children in
that home.
Their children were:
Everett Allen (1882-1885), d. age 2
of pneumonia.
Eunice Zylpha (1884-1962), m. Charles
Moore Osborn and lived in Dayton, Ohio.
Alphonso Daniel (1887-1957), known as
“Bill”, m. Elizabeth Jane Doucette, d. Gloucester
.
Charles Allen (1889-1976), m. Hazel
Marguerite Witham, d. Tustin, California.
Charlotte M. (1891-1910), m. Clarence
William Predmore, died of complications of pregnancy, age 19 in Ithaca, New
York.
Carrie Ella (1896-1965), unmarried,
d. Dayton, Ohio.
Evelyn (1904-1944), m. Jacob Edwin
Spittle, d. Gloucester.
Photos of 12 Locust Street taken in the 1960's before urban renewal demolition.
My mother, Ethel Zylpha Taylor, was only six years of age
when her grandfather passed away. She
once told me that she remembered him as a frail elderly man in a wheel
chair. He died in Gloucester on August
20, 1919 at the age of 70 of colon cancer. He is buried at Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery in east Gloucester, across the harbor from where he lived and worked.
Daniel Taylor's signature, an inscription inside his family Bible.
Sources:
Canadian Register; database with images, Canada’s
Historic Places [https://www.historicplaces.ca ; accessed 11 Dec 2019];
Bonshaw Hall; citing Parks Canada.
“Collection of Sandra Steele DeFord,” digital
image, “Taylor Made” by Sandra Steele DeFord, 2011.
Daniel Taylor. Family Bible Records, The Holy Bible
(unknown publisher), signature of Daniel Taylor, digital image;
privately held by Susan Taylor Richardson, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center,
publisher, “Burnham Brothers Railway: Stories from the Neighborhood. An Oral
History,” cover image; Gloucester Maritime Heritage Museum, Gloucester,
Massachusetts, 2011.
Harbor Loop Urban Renewal Photographs, 12
Locust Street; digital image; Gloucester Archives Committee, Gloucester,
Massachusetts.
“Historic Photo Collection”, Burnham
Brothers marine railway, Cape Ann Museum; Gloucester, Massachusetts, 2011.
Regional Map of Wood Islands, PEI; digital images, Tide-Forecast.com
[https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Wood-Island-Prince-Edward-Island:
accessed 11 Dec 2019]; citing Meteo365.com Ltd.
"Massachusetts, Index to Boston
Passenger Lists, 1848-1891", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 6 December 2015), Daniel Taylor, 1875; citing
immigration, ship Carroll, microfilm publication M265, National Archives and
Records Administration, Washington D.C.,1969, roll 258, image 894/4090.
"Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915,"
database with images, FamilySearch [https://familysearch.org : 11 Dec
2019], Daniel Taylor and Ella S. Allen, 004279765 > image 226 of 959; citing
Massachusetts State Archives, Boston.
"Massachusetts State Vital Records,
1841-1920," database with images, FamilySearch [https://familysearch.org
: accessed 22 October 2019], Daniel Taylor, 20 Aug 1919; City of Gloucester,
certificate 237, page 81, and Massachusetts State Archives, Boston.
"Prince Edward Island Marriage
Registers, 1832-1888,", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 6 December 2015), Daniel Taylor and Margaret Campbell,
01 Jun 1874; citing Prince Edward Island, Canada, Public Archives,
Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,630,094; Marriages 1871-1878 p. 11 stamped in
book, image 6/292.
“Public Member Trees,” database, Ancestry.com
[https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Dec 2019]; “MAH Family Tree” by Allen
Head, profile of Daniel Taylor (1949-1919); citing Jane Doran collection.
“State and Federal Naturalization Records,
1798-1950”, Daniel Taylor, petition and certificate, 27 Sep 1886, Vol 135, p 1,
item 183; Ancestry.com [https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Dec
2019], citing U.S. District Court, Boston, Massachusetts; RG 85.
U.S. Census, 1880, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts, population schedule, city of Boston, enumeration district 576,
p. 7 [written], p. 144C [stamped], family 77, Daniel Taylor in the household of
Charles Burns; digital images, Family Search [https://www.familysearch.org
: accessed 10 December 2019]; citing National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, D.C.; RG 29, publication T9.
U.S. Census, 1900, Essex County,
Massachusetts, population schedule, city of Gloucester, enumeration district
(ED) 278, sheet 15B [written], family 230, Daniel Taylor household; digital
images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 December
2019); citing National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.,
RG 29, publication T623, roll 641.
“U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989”, Gloucester
Directory 1890-1891 and Rockport Business Directory; Daniel Taylor, 1890,
p. 205, Ancestry.com; Sampson, Murdock & Co., Boston.
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