Taylor, William (1841-1901)

Family

William was born on 6 February 1841 at Staveley, Westmorland, to parents Matthew Taylor, a grocer, and Mary Nelson. His older brother John was a PM minister.

He married Margaret Westgarth (b abt1858) in the summer of 1878 in the Penrith Registration District, Cumberland. Census returns identify one child.

• Mary Agnes (b1893)                        

William died on 6 November 1901 in the Kendal Registration district, Westmorland.

Circuits

• 1861 St Helens Auckland
• 1862 Brompton
• 1863 Sunderland
• 1864 disappears
• Paton Congregational College
• 1872 Parkhead, Cumberland – Congregational minister
• 1878-1895 Flanshaw, Yorkshire

References

Surman Index id: 26724

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers