Genealogy Report: Descendants of Zachary * (12th US President) Taylor
Descendants of Zachary * (12th US President) Taylor
6.B.ED SARGENT WILLIAM ARTHUR *12 TAYLOR (WILLIAM HENRY *11, ZACHARY * (12TH US PRESIDENT)10, RICHARD *9, ZACHARY *8, JAMES *7, JAMES *6, JOHN *5, THOMAS *4, THOMAS *3, ROWLAND *2, JOHN *1) was born 19 December 1869 in HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, and died January 1967 in Ashern Hospital, ASHERN, MANITOBA, CANADA.He married MARGARET ELIZABETH * COATES in WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, daughter of ROBERT COATES and ELIZABETH WELLS.She was born 25 February 1885 in England, and died 12 March 1921 in Summerland, B.C., Canada.
Notes for B.ED SARGENT WILLIAM ARTHUR * TAYLOR:
Listed in Amelia Harding RAINS estate pedigree.
FOLLOWING INFO FROM GRANDSON BILL (W.A.T.). GRAMPA WAS EDUCATED AS A SCHOOL TEACHER IN HAMILTON, HOWEVER DURING THE SUMMER HE WENT TO WINNIPEG TO SELL FRUIT. HIS TWO
OTHER BROTHERS HAD ALSO GONE TO WINNIPEG. OLD W.A. OR WILLIE AS SOME CALLED HIM
SOON FOUND OUT THAT HE COULD MAKE MORE MONEY SELLING FRUIT IN WINNIPEG FOR 2
MONTHS THEN HE COULD TEACHING FOR 10 MONTHS SO HE MOVED TO WINNIPEG.
HE ESTABLISHED W.A. TAYLOR & CO. FIRST LOCATED ON MAIN STREET ABOUT WHERE THE
PRESENT FEDERAL BUILDING IS LOCATED AND L ATOR MOVED THE FACTORY ACROSS THE
RIVER TO ST BONIFACE ON PROVENCHE AVE WHERE THE PRESENT LIBRARY IS LOCATED. HE
ALSO RAN MAPLE GROVE BEACH ON FROBISHER ROAD IN ST VITAL. HE RAN A MARKET GARDEN OPERATION AND LATER A RECREATION PARK WITH DANCE HALL AND PICNIC AREAS. MANY PROMINENT WINNIPEG COMPANIES HELD THEIR ANNUAL PICNICS AT MAPLE GROVE BEACH. GRAMPA MADE A VERITY OF CANDIES AND CHOCOLATES AND DURING THE WAR HE SOLD TO NUTTY CLUB. HE ALSO MANUFACTURED HORSE RADISH UNDER THE TAYLOR LABEL AND IT WAS USED BY BOTH THE CNR AND CPR IN BOTH THEIR HOTELS AND TRAINS ACROSS CANADA. I W.A. JUNIOR DELIVERED THE LAST PRODUCTION OF 144 BOTTLES TO THE CP AND CN WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD. MADE THE LAST BATCH FROM START TO FINISH WITH GRAMPA. GRAMPA OFFICIALLY RETIRED AT AGE 95 THEN SPENT SOME TIME WITH MY DAD IN CHICAGO, MY BROTHER RUSS IN PHILADELPHIA AND RETURNED TO WINNIPEG TO LIVE WITH ME AND FINISHED HIS YEARS WITH JOAN IN MOOSEHORN WERE HE DIED AT 98. DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR GRAMPA SERVED IN THE INFANTRY AS A SARGENT HOWEVER NOT TOO MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT THIS TIME. GRAMPA DID HAVE A NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES DURING THE YEARS AND THE FEELING I GET IS THAT HE WAS A HARD MASTER BUT PEOPLE STAYED WITH HIM. HE WAS LIKED. HE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF KARTUM TEMPLE (SHRINERS) IN WINNIPEG AND WAS AWARDED DURING HIS LIFE TIME A PLAQUE
AS THE OLDEST LIVING ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE TEMPLE. GRAMPA OUTLIVED MOST OF HIS
FRIENDS AND ALL OF HIS WIVES. GRAMPA ONCE TOLD ME THAT HE NEVER GOT DRUNK IN
HIS LIFE BUT HE DID KEEP A BOTTLE OF BRANDY FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
AS GRAMPA AGED HE BECAME MORE MELO. MY MOTHER WHO DISLIKED W.A. BECAUSE HE
DEMANDED A LOT OF TIME FROM MY DAD SAID THAT GRAMPA IMPROVED WITH AGE AND WAS
ALMOST NICE AT THE END. HE HAD TWO MARRIAGES. THE SECOND WAS SHORT AS AFTER MARRIAGE HE DISCOVERED HIS NEW BRIDE ONLY WANTED HIS MONEY. AFTER THAT GRAMPA HAD A MRS.
STINSON AS HIS PERSONAL ASSISTANT. STORY BY WILLIAM A TAYLOR HIS GRANDSON
RUSSELL SAYS GRAMPA ATTENDED McMaster COLLEGE IN TORONTO BEFORE IT MOVED TO
HAMILTON TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY. IT WAS COINCIDENTAL THAT GRAMPA CAME FROM
HAMILTON.
INFORMATION PUT IN FILE BY WILLIAM ARTHUR TAYLOR B1944.
!DEATH: obit in Winnipeg Free Press 29Jan1907 William Taylor, aged 81, buried
in Elmwood Cemetery.Prob not him. BUT POSSIBLY OLD WILLIAM HENRY OF HAMILTON???
The following notes were added from conversation with DWLG by William Arthur Taylor b1944 and added to notes on Jan 5th, 2000. The Taylors had a cottage on the Assiniboine River in St. James across from Fort Osborne Barricks. Charly Wells visited the cottage on a visit from England.
Notes for MARGARET ELIZABETH * COATES:
!BIR: IGI online printout in her file.LDS film 1903531.Date wrong.
Date shown calculated from death certificate.
!MAR: photocopy of her 'Certificate of Marriage, is in her file.
!DEA: Died in Summerland BC to where she moved because of 'consumption.
Photocopy of the 'Certificate of Registration of Death in her file.
!BUR: location from Dorothy Whitebread.
Listed in Amelia Harding RAINS estate pedigree.
EMIGRATION: 1901, according to death certificate.
NICKNAME: 'Rita'
RITA WAS A TALL STRIKING WOMEN BUT UNFORTUNATELY WAS PLAGUED WITH TB. SHE OFTEN WENT TO BETTER CLIMATES FOR THE WINTER TO AVOID THE HARSH WINNIPEG WEATHER. ON SUCH A TRIP TO SUMMERLAND B.C. SHE DIED WITH HER SON WILLIAM BY HER SIDE. DAD WAS 15 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME. REPORT BY WILLIAM A TAYLOR JAN 20 1992.INFORMATION PUT IN FILE BY WILLIAM ARTHUR TAYLOR B1944.
MARGARET ELIZABETH. AGED 15, AND HER BROTHER JOHN, CAME TO WINNIPEG FROM RICHMOND ON THAMES, ENGLAND WITH PLYMOUTH BRETHREN. SHE TAUGHT PIANO LESSONS IN HER HOME IN WINNIPEG. MARGARET WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE MARRIED AND 20 YEARS OLD WHEN WILLIAM RUSSELL COATES WAS BORN. SHE DIED OF T.B. DURING THE WINTER in Summerland, B.C.
The following notes were added from conversation with DWLG by William Arthur Taylor b1944 and added to notes on Jan 5th, 2000. Brought Rita back to Winnipeg for barriel at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Name on Gedcom file from cousin Barrie Atkinson received Nov 24th, 2000 and checked with this file on Dec 4th, 2000 by William Arthur Taylor b 1944.
Child of WILLIAM TAYLOR and MARGARET COATES is:
15. | i. | SQUADRON LEADER WILLIAM RUSSELL COATES *13 TAYLOR, b. 24 January 1906, AT HOME, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA; d. 25 September 1996, General Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. |
7.ALDERMAN JOSEPH12 TAYLOR (WILLIAM HENRY *11, ZACHARY * (12TH US PRESIDENT)10, RICHARD *9, ZACHARY *8, JAMES *7, JAMES *6, JOHN *5, THOMAS *4, THOMAS *3, ROWLAND *2, JOHN *1) was born 01 November 1873 in HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, and died in WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.He married LINA ??? in WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.She was born in SWITZERLAND, and died in VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA.
Notes for ALDERMAN JOSEPH TAYLOR:
MOVED WEST WITH BROTHERS IN LATE 1800'S BECAME AN ALDERMAN IN ST BONIFACE LIVED IN BIG HOUSE ON LAVERANDRY ST. IN ST. BONIFACE. OWNED SEVERAL FARMS ON ST. MARY'S AND ST. ANNS ROADS. INFO FROM DWLG. WAS ALDERMAN FOR TEN YEARS. WELL THOUGHT OF AS POLATITION. WHEN HE DIED HIS FUNERAL WAS LARGEST EVER IN ST. BONIFACE BASILICA. INFO FROM LOUIS HIS DAUGHTER. THE FOLLOWING BLOCK OF INFO COMES FROM DWLG. SHE FEELS THAT UNCLE JOE AS HE WAS CALLED WAS ALDERMAN FOR 16 YEARS AND THE HOUSE ON LAVERAUNDRY THAT THEY LIVED IN WAS QUITE LARGE WITH SEPARATE SERVANTS QUARTERS AND STAIR WAY. SHE SAYS THAT THEY HAD A LOT OF VISITORS TO THE HOME. THE KITCHEN WAS LARGE AND HAD THE CUSTOMARY WOOD STOVE BUT IT ALSO HAD AN ADD ON ELECTRIC STOVE TOP FOR USE IN THE SUMMER AS NOT TO HEAT UP THE HOUSE. UNCLE JOE ALSO OWNED THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR AND HAD HIS OFFICES IN THE BIG HOUSE. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN ST. BONIFACE AND MOTHER DID ATTEND HIS FUNERAL AT ST. BONIFACE BASILICA AND HE WAS INTERNED AT THE BASILICA GROUNDS.
THE TWO FARMS THAT HE OWNED WERE ON ST. ANNS ROAD. HE ALSO SOLD SOME REAL ESTATE AND WAS KNOWN AS A SHRUDE HORSE TRADER IN THE LITERAL AND OTHER MEANING OF THE WORD. MY GRAMPA TAYLOR OLD WILLIE WENT TO JOE'S EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT FOR SUPPER
AND JOE AND WA WOULD PLAY CHECKERS. OFTAIN OTHERS WOULD DROP IN AND IT WAS KIND OF A GATHERING PLACE. MOTHER SAYS THAT UNCLE JOE WAS A BIG MAN AND COMMANDED A LOT OF
RESPECT. HE HAD A BIG PRESENCE ABOUT HIM. JOE WAS PROBABLE THE MOST WELL TO DO
OF ALL THE BROTHERS. JOE JR. REPAIRED WATCHES IN THE HOME. MOM SAYS THAT THE TAYLORS COULD DO MOST ANYTHING IF THEY PUT THEIR MINDS TO IT. RECORDED BY W.A.T. 1990. INFORMATION PUT IN FILE BY WILLIAM ARTHUR TAYLOR B1944.
Notes for LINA ???:
LINA MOVED TO VANCOUVER AFTER UNCLE JOE DIED IN WINNIPEG AND LIVED
WITH LOISE
AND AL BARNES. LINA WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND.
Children of JOSEPH TAYLOR and LINA ??? are:
i. | LOUISE13 TAYLOR, b. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA; m. (1) AL BARNES, VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA; b. ENGLAND; d. VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA; m. (2) GRIFFITH, VANCOUVER, CANADA. |
Notes for LOUISE TAYLOR: LOUISE PRESENTLY LIVING IN VANCOUVER SHE WAS MARRIED TO AL BARNES AND LIVED IN ST BONIFACE. L ATOR MOVED TO VANCOUVER WHERE THEY WENT INTO THE DRY CLEANING BUSINESS. THEY MOVED TO BC AND STAYED AT FIRST WITH AUNT LINA . SHE STILL LIVES WITH SISTER OLIVE IN VANCOUVER. LOISE WHEN TALKED TO ON MARCH 30 1991 WAS 85. HER HOME ADDRESS WAS #106 3080-EAST 54TH AVE IN VANCOUVER V5S 1Y5 PH 434-1251 SHE SUPPLIED BIRTH DATES. THE MARRIAGE HAD NO CHILDREN |
Notes for AL BARNES: AL WAS A MILK MAN FOR MODERN DAIRIES AND WORKED DOWN THE STREET FROM THE TAYLOR'S. HE DELIVERED MILK TO LOISES HOME AND THEY MET. UNCLE JOE HATED HIM BUT AL LOISE EVETUALLY MARRIED. HE LIVED IN ST JAMES. STARTED A DAIRY ON HIS OWN OUT IN ST JAMES. IT BURNED DOWN. AFTER FIRE LOISE AND ALL WENT OUT TO AUNT LINA'S IN B.C. EVENTUALLY WENT INTO THE DRY CLEANING BUISNESS. |
Notes for GRIFFITH: HE WAS LOISE'S SECOND HUSBAND AND THEY HAD NO CHILDREN |
ii. | JOSEPH TAYLOR, b. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA. |
Notes for JOSEPH TAYLOR: JOSEPH WENT INTO THE BUSINESS OF DYING MATERIAL AND MOVED WEST. HIS NICK NAME WAS "DODO" HE MARRIED AND HAD ONE DAUGHTER. INFO. FROM DWLG. |
iii. | OLIVE TAYLOR, b. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA; d. Abt. 1996, VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA. |
Notes for OLIVE TAYLOR: OLIVE WAS MARRIED SEVERAL TIMES. MY FIRST MEMORY OF HER WAS RUNNING THE HOTEL IN SIOUX LOOKOUT IN ONTARIO AND VISITING THEM ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. OLIVE WAS A TALL WOMEN. SHE NOW LIVES WITH SISTER LOISE IN VANCOUVER. LATEST INFORMATION WAS THAT SHE MOVED INTO A NURSING HOME AND WAS QUITE ILL BEFORE PASSING ON. INFO RECORDED BY W.A.T. 1998 |
iv. | OSBORNE TAYLOR, b. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA; d. VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA. |
Notes for OSBORNE TAYLOR: OSBORNE NEVER MARRIED-LIVED MANY YEARS IN VANCOUVER-WAS INTERESTED IN MODEL RAILROADING OSBORNE WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO INCIDENT IN VANCOUVER. HE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE STREET CARRING ONE OF HIS PRIZED GERANIUMS WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A CAR AND DIED. HE WAS AN ELECTRICIAN BY TRADE. INFO BY W.A.T. |
v. | WILLIAM ARTHUR TAYLOR, b. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA; d. MANITOBA, CANADA. |
Notes for WILLIAM ARTHUR TAYLOR: HIS COMMON NAME OF USE WAS ARCHIE. HE RESCUED PEOPLE AT THE ST. BONIFACE COLLAGE FIRE WHEN HE WAS 14 OR SO. HE GOT OUT SAFE BUT WENT BACK IN. HE DIED OF SMOKE INHALATION. INFO FROM DWLG. |