Family [F156]

TAYLOR

Parents

Percy Scott TAYLOR [P525] = Mary Elizabeth [Molly] DAWSON [P526]

Married ABT 1909, St Lukes Church, Barrow, Lancashire

Percy Scott

Born 5 Jul 1886, 113 Dalton Road, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire1
Died 15 Nov 1925, Pretoria Hospital, Transvaal, South Africa2
Buried 16 Nov 1925, Pretoria, South Africa3
Occupation: Plumber with South African Railways.

Son of George Giles TAYLOR.

Mary Elizabeth [Molly]

Born 30 Sep 1887, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire4
Died 6 Aug 1967, Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex5
Buried Crematorium, Ruislip, Middlesex, UK

Children

George Albert [P527] = Betty Rosemary WISEMAN [P579] > Family [F207]

Married ABT 1940

George Albert

Born 22 Jun 1911, Barrow, Lancashire
Died 12 Dec 2001, Isle of Wight
Nationality: British
Cremated on: 20 Dec 2001
Cremated at: Isle of Wight Crematorium
Married Betty WISEMAN - no issue

Betty Rosemary

Nationality: British

August 2009
August 2009

Olive Maude [P58] = John [Jack] RAWBONE [P4] > Family [F15]

Married 25 Nov 1939, St.James' Church, Alperton, Wembley, Middx.

Olive Maude

Born 14 Aug 1912, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, UK
Died 18 Mar 2006, High Wycombe Hospital, High Wycombe, Bucks.
Occupation: Housewife
Nationality: British
Widowed: 19 Jan 1978
Cremated on: 30 Mar 2006
Cremated at: Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham, Bucks. UK
Lived in Waterfall Bovan, South Africa from c 1920 - 1926.
Her father was a Railway engineer with South African railways until his early death. Returned to England with Mother (Mollie Taylor), brother Bert and sisters, Joan and Hazel to live in Wembley, Middlesex.

On her 92nd birthday
On her 92nd birthday

Book of Remembrance entry
Book of Remembrance entry

John [Jack]

Born 1 May 1909, Weobley, Leominster, Herefordshire
Died 19 Jan 1978, Poole, Hampshire
Occupation: Police Officer, Post Master & Restaurant Owner
Nationality: British
Cremated on: 26 Jan 1978
Cremated at: Bournemouth, Hampshire
Brought-up in Herefordshire. Moved to live with his brother, Arthur, in Sudbury, Middlesex and joined the Police Service where he remained during the 1939-45 War. Left the police to run a Post Office in Guilsborough, Northamptonshire from about 1945 until 1955.

Moved to Chorleywood, Herts. and bought a Post Office. Subsequently sold it and opened a Sandwich Bar until finally retiring in 1968. Holidayed in South Africa and then moved to Marlow Bottom; then spent six months on the Isle of Wight; and finally moved to Verwood, Dorset where he suffered heart attacks over a few years and eventually died in Poole General Hospital, Dorset.

Joan Mary [P528] = Leslie Robert William TAYLOR [P573] > Family [F197]

Married ABT 1948, Alperton, Middlesex

Joan Mary

Born Barrow, Lancashire
Occupation: Retired. A former Personal Assistant with Ministry of Fisher6
Nationality: British

December 2008
December 2008

Leslie Robert William

Born 24 Oct 1915
Died 7 Aug 1990, Carlisle Infirmary, UK
Occupation: School teacher
Cremated at: Carlisle, UK
Information from his daughter, Hilary, March 2009.

Hazel Dawson [P529] = Ronald John SAWYER [P581] > Family [F231]

Married 4 Feb 1950

Hazel Dawson

Born Waterval Boven,East. Transvaal, South Africa
Nationality: British

April 2009
April 2009

Family


Sources

1 : ; Page 86; Primary evidence
Copy of Barrow in Furness Birth Certificate No BA 432358 dated 22 March 1949.

2 : ; Page 1307; Primary evidence
Buried in Rebecca Street Cemetery, Pretoria. ? Grave No 2932.
Pretoria District, Transvaal Province Death Certificate No 15873, dated 17/11/19 25.
Died from various illnesses over 7 months and 3 days finally from Acute peritonitis.

3 : ; Primary evidence
Burried either 26 or 27 November. Source Olive Rawbone December 1993.

4 : ; Primary evidence
Birth Certificate: XA 795556

5 : ; Primary evidence
Death Certificate: IE 701873. Died of carcinoma of the stomach and Myxoedema.

6 : ; Primary evidence
Informtaion from her daughter March 2009.