FAMILY LAWRENCE

TAYLOR ANCESTORS

 

            The families of TAYLOR and COOPER are my direct ancestors through my paternal grandmother, Laura Hilda TAYLOR. Below I have set out the two families, as I know them.

 

 

The Family of John COOPER

 

            John COOPER was born about 1831 in Stanford, Worcestershire. On 19th February 1850 he married Mary Ann RUDD at Eastham on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border. She was born about 1829 in Eastham. I have traced 13 children.

 

Ref

Name

Born

Married

Died

1

Thomas

1851

 

 

2

Ann

1852

 

 

3

Isabella

2nd July 1853

14th November 1873 at Upper Sapey, Herefordshire

20th February 1933

4

John

1855

 

 

5

Mary

1858

 

 

6

Amilia

1859

 

 

7

Jane

1860

 

 

8

Elizabeth

1860

 

 

9

William

1862

 

 

10

James

1864

 

 

11

Sarah

1866

 

 

12

Charles

1868

 

 

13

Susan

1874

 

 

 

 

The Family of William TAYLOR

 

            William TAYLOR was born in 1850 at Lindridge. The village is now in the north-west corner of Worcestershire, but over time has been transferred between Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire. He married Isabella COOPER abt December 1873, at Upper Sapey, Herefordshire. He worked as an agricultural labourer and farm bailiff, in and around the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border and lived at a number of locations – Tedstone Delamere, Tedstone Wafer, Upper Sapey and Wolferlow. William died in 1917, following an accident while working at Barnes Hall Farm, then on the southern edge of Worcester.

            With the compensation his widow Isabella bought two houses, 236 & 238 Bath Road, Worcester. She remained there until her death on 20th February 1933. The two houses were left, one each, to her daughters Lily May TAYLOR and Dorothy Helen Ruth HUNT.

            I have listed below William and Isabella’s children and their issue.

 

Ref

Name

Born

Married

Died

1

Emma

1874

Walter STEAD, Abt. June 1899 at Bromyard, Herefordshire

 

1.1

Doris

 

 

 

1.2

Joan

 

 

 

2

Ann

1875

 

 

3

Catherine

1876

 

 

4

William Henry

1878

 

 

5

Agnes

1880

 

 

6

Elizabeth

24th October 1881

 

 

7

Mary

1883

 

 

7.1

Kathleen Gladys

 

 

 

8

Lily May

10th November 1885

 

15th November 1964

9

Alfred George

1888

Margaret

 

9.1

Wilfred

 

 

 

9.2

Eileen Margaret

17th March 1916

 

 

10

Albert

1890

 

 

10.1

‘Bertie’

 

 

 

10.2

Nancy

 

 

 

10.3

Cyril

 

 

 

11

Florence

1894

Ernest GRANT at Tamworth, Staffordshire

 

11.1

Dorothy

 

 

 

11.2

Muriel

 

Brian WATKINS

 

12

Dorothy Helen Ruth

1895

Walter HUNT

 

12.1

Gordon

 

 

 

12.2

Roger

 

 

 

13

Laura Hilda

27th January 1897

Walter Charles LAWRENCE

 

 

            Having spoken to Muriel Watkins (11.2) recently it transpires that her mother Florence (11) is not the daughter of William and Isabella, but the daughter of Catherine (3).

 

 

 

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