Thread: Elizabeth Talyor

I am stuck on Elizabeth Taylor who was born in Stockport Cheshire around 1827 [ on one census she did say Knutsford, Cheshire was her birth place] he married twice 1. In 1848 to John James Morton At Manchester Cathedral. In the presence of Alice Taylor and Eli Slate. Gives her father as Peter Taylor, carter. Their address is down as Heaton Norris. Stockport.
2. Again in 1861 to George Robinson.
Elizabeth now gives her father as Isaac Bowers, brickmaker. George is an overlooker. Witnesses; Joseph Burgess and Samuel Turner.
I have found a Peter Taylor born in Stockport in 1803, also two Isaac Bowers, one born in Knutsford.
None of the had a daughter Elizabeth, it is the same person all the record show that it is.
Alan

Hello

The link may be the witnesses on the 1848 marriage

Eli SLATE is shown on th e1841 Census H107 582 4/35 12 Tatton St West Heaton Norris*, b 1831 s/o Samuel aged 45

Marriage q1 1849 St James Didsbury Manchester Eli SLATE = Alice TAYLOR , sourcing the parish register entry will be cheaper than the marriage cert.

In 1871 they have a nephew Samuel TAYLOR aged 13 living with them



* this side of Stockport sometimes shown as being in Lancashire

Hello pejay

H107 2239 41 74 Stayley
MORTON John JAmes 22
MORTON Elizabeth 22 both b Stockport

1861RG 2570 53 27
Newbridge Lane Stockport
ROBINSON MAry b 79 Heaton Norris
ROBINSON George b 32
MORTON Elizabeth b32 Stockport
MORTON Henry b 1851 Stockport

1871 RG10 3664 152 21 Newbridge Lane
ROBINSON George married
ROBINSON Elizabeth
MORTON Henrty

but I cannot find a BMD ref for a marriage between Elizabeth Taylor and John James Morton. Where did you find it ?

On lancashirebmd.org.uk

Spanner in the works again!

The cheshirebmd.org.uk site indicates that George Robinson married Elizabeth MORTON /Elizabeth BOWERS 1861/1865 at St Paul Portwood Stockport as you have indicated the daughter of Isaac BOWERS. I would have expected to have found the name TAYLOR on as well with her father's name as Peter CARTER!

The link may still be the witnesses at the first marriage

Can you let us know how you get back to this, you have a private tree on A*******, looking at the public tree, the mystery seems to evolve around the parentage of Elizabeth b 1827, have you acquired the birth certificate of the person you are tracing to ELizabeth! This is also suggested by Noggin 28

elsabels

Thanks for all that everyone, you have pretty much confirmed what I have found.
John James Morton married Elizabeth Taylor at Manchester Cathedral on the 28 Aug 1848, he married as James Morton, his parents called three of their children John with different middle names, The christening record for there only child gives his name as John James. I know you are going to say I have the wrong marriage but everything else on that certificate fits ages birth place, they were living in Heaton Norris. He is down as a weaver .
When Elizabeth and her son James turn up in Stockport, boarding with the Robinson's she is said to be a widow later when James marries his father is not listed as deceased on his marriage certificate and is said to be an innkeeper.
I think the mother may of remarried to Isaac Bowers as it as been suggested, but there is no records [ Elizabeth's mother was a Elizabeth Broom b.? ] . Did she just live with him.
Then we have the 1841 census record that shows a family of Bowers and Taylor's living in the same household in Duckinfield;
Mary Bower, James Bower, Elizabeth Bower, Hannah Bower, Robert Bower William Bower, Noah Taylor, Joseph Taylor and William Foden. No Isaac.

Ran out of space . I do have the son James Morton's birth and marriage cert. It says Elizabeth formally Taylor. Father John James Morton weaver on his birth certificate.
James marriage in 1875 say his father is James Morton [ James not John James, this must be the name his son knew him by] as I said above it says he is a innkeeper. He could have left the cotton trade after the 1861 census as this was the time of the Cotton Famine.

Alan

Just to confirm are we talking BOWERS or BOWER or potentially both?

elsabels