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Lydia Taylor

Lydia Taylor

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Dead end! Can anybody help?!
Okay so I'm looking into my family tree, I seem to be able to follow the rest of the family through marriages etc fine but not my own lol
Taylors - I've got as far back as my 5x Great Grandfather, William Taylor, the only issue is I only know of his name through his sons marriage cert! I really want to keep going back and tracing through each person but since getting to William I have stumbled on zilch! No matching family tree's seem to be appearing for him either!
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His son William Henry Taylor was born around 1829, Birmingham, married Elizabeth Hough on 18 Sep 1854 (where I found his fathers name on the marriage cert) and had 6 children (Harriett, Maria, Joseph, Samuel, Walter and Emily)

If anybody could help it would be greatly appreciated as I would hate for my family journey to end here!
 
hi lydia well you have done great getting that far back but to go back further you now need to delve parish records..i am not too up on those but hopefully someone will be able to help you

lyn
 
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Lydia,

I have loads of TAYLORs in my tree, but none are genuine because they all stem from my great grandfather, James TAYLOR, who was a foundling born circa 1835 and brought up in the Infant Asylum for the Poor for which no records survive. He simply told my grandmother that he was given that name by the staff of that institution because no one knew who he was.

TAYLOR, as you must know by now, was a very common name in the Birmingham area. A few of mine had unusual forenames like Olga, which made them easier to trace, but William & James were almost non-starters because there were so many of them. There's also the possibility that at some point one of them moved into Birmingham from outside of the area. So once you start to move back before 1837. you can be certain of very little, and parish registers vary in the amout of detail they give.

Your William Henry could have been the first or the last child of William. The 1841 & 1851 censuses may give you some indication of this and you my be able to narrow down the possibilities for his mother's name. familysearch.org gives 4 or 5 William Henry TAYLORs born within a couple years of 1829 in Birmingham with a father named William, some with the same mother's name. Good luck, it is not an easy task!

Maurice
 
As Maurice as already said, it's a difficult one. Does it list the father's occupation on the marriage certificate? Are the witnesses relevant? Or the groom's address?

If none of them help you're only hope is to trace all the children and hope one of them is living with a relative at some stage. Or a relative is living with them.
 
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