Taylor

Taylor family page

This family name is found in various spellings back to the early 17th century in Jersey

Margaretta Jane Taylor and son Adolphus

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Taylor family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Taylor, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origins of surname

As would be expected, this name is occupational, and relates to a tailor. This word is derived from the French tailleur, meaning a 'cutter-out of cloth'. It is said to be the second most common surname in England after Smith.

Early records

The name first appeared as Tailleur in Jersey in 1617. It appears frequently in this spelling or Taylor within the same generation of the same family.

Variants

• Taylor
• Tayler
• Tailour
• Taylour
• Tailleur

Family records

Family trees

• William Taylor: 19th-20th centuries
• Charles Taylor: 19th-20th centuries
• Thomas Taylor: 17th century
• Philippe Taylor: 17th-18th centuries
• George Taylor: 19th-21st centuries
• John Taylor: 18th-20th centuries

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Taylor baptisms in Jersey
• Taylor marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Taylor marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Taylor burials in Jersey

Great War service

• Taylor family members who served in World War 1
• Presentation to Sergeant George Henry Taylor, MM, at the Town Hall

Family wills

• Taylor family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Taylor burial records 1820-1978

Prominent family members

• An interview with Harbourmaster Ron Taylor

Family businesses

• John Taylor was a grocer at 29 King Street from 1890 to 1933, eventually selling his business to Le Riches Stores
• Fruiterer William Taylor was at 28 Queen Street in the 1850s

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  1853
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  1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey for painter and decorator Peter Francis Taylor, the fourth of his parents', John Charles Taylor and Ann Roberts, sons to be given these names and the first to survive
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  1898
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Family photographs

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  Thomas Walter Sherry (1849-1014) and Eliza, nee Taylor, Fred, Daisy and Ethel
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  John Brown and his wife Martha, nee Taylor
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  Mary Ann Taylor, nee Quinn, (1834-1897)
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  Margaretta Jane Taylor
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  Margaretta Taylor in 1873 with son Adolphus Theodore
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  Margaretta Jane Taylor and her husband Henry Tostevin, who emigrated to Adelaide, Australia
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  The 1936 wedding in St Helier of Willoughby Frank Bertrand Taylor (1913-1958) and Kathleen Annie Edgar (1915-2010)
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  Born in Jersey in 1850, Martha Matilda Taylor was the daughter of William and Jane, nee Twigg. She married John Brown (1854-1935) in London in 1874 and they emigrated to New Zealand, then Australia. They had eleven children
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  Christiana Taylor, born in St Helier in 1818, the daughter of John and Ann, nee Courtice. She married Philip Langworthy (1818-1905) of Devon and they moved back to Jersey, where they had four daughters. She is pictured in about 1896 with her youngest grandchild Charles Mauger
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  Mrs Cumberland Taylor, photographed around 1880 by Ernest Baudoux

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

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  Taylor - St John’s Church cemetery
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  Taylor - St John’s Church cemetery
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  Taylor - St John’s Church cemetery
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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
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  The grave of Great War casualty Frederick James Taylor at Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, near Albert
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  The grave of Great War casualty William Henry Taylor at Canada Farm Cemetery, Belgium
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  The grave of Great War casualty Alfred Taylor at Almorah Cemetery, St Helier

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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