John Edmund Taylor

(about October 23, 1885 - about 1972)
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     John Edmund Taylor was born about October 23, 1885 in Heskethbanks, England, son of William Taylor and Anna Maria.1

John Edmund Taylor was educated up through age eight when he had to stop going to school and work on the family farm in England.1

John married Beatrice Lomax on Thursday, May 6, 1909 at Ryerson United Methodist Church, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Beatrice was 27 years old. She was the daughter of Abraham Lomax and Frances (3) Walls. The ceremony was a double wedding with her brother, Abraham, and Amelia his bride. It was the first wedding ever held in this church.1

On July 21, 1939, his daughter, Beatrice, married Arthur Alfred Noyes.1

John died about 1972 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at age 87.1

Children of John Edmund Taylor and Beatrice Lomax

Citations

  1. [S67] Interview with B. Rose Noyes (Prescott, AZ 2004), by Susan J. Noyes, 1973-2004.
 


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