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Rachel Taylor 1826–1921 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 15 Aug 1826

Birth Location: Lenham, Kent, England

Death Date: 10 Dec 1921

Death Location: Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand

Father: Edward Hook

Mother: Bennett Hook

Spouse(s): James Taylor

Children(s): Annie Taylor, James Henry, Mary Taylor, Walter Taylor, Kate Taylor, Jane Best, Alfd Taylor, Emily Jones, Amelia Windley, Thomas Taylor, Isaac Taylor, G Taylor, Frank Taylor, Henry Taylor

In 1826, Rachel Taylor entered the world in Lenham, Kent, England, born to Edward Matthews George Hook And Bennett Mather Hook. Rachel Taylor married James Henry Taylor, and had children including Alfd Jno Taylor, Amelia May Windley, Annie Rachel Taylor, Emily Ann Jones, Frank A Taylor, G W Taylor, Henry Stephen Taylor, Isaac Edward Taylor, James Henry, Jane Sarah Best, Kate Margaret Taylor, Mary Anne Taylor, Thomas F Taylor, Walter Taylor. Rachel Taylor passed away in 1921 in Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Biography

  • In 1826, Rachel Taylor entered the world in Lenham, Kent, England, born to Edward Matthews George Hook And Bennett Mather Hook.
  • Rachel Taylor married James Henry Taylor, and had children including Alfd Jno Taylor, Amelia May Windley, Annie Rachel Taylor, Emily Ann Jones, Frank A Taylor, G W Taylor, Henry Stephen Taylor, Isaac Edward Taylor, James Henry, Jane Sarah Best, Kate Margaret Taylor, Mary Anne Taylor, Thomas F Taylor, Walter Taylor.
  • Rachel Taylor passed away in 1921 in Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand.

Immediate Family

Parents

Edward Hook
1792–1856
Birth Location: Kent, England
EH
Bennett Hook
1808–1865
Birth Location: Otterden, Lenham, Kent, England
BH

Spouses(s)

James Taylor
1823–1913
Birth Location: Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells, England, United Kingdom
JT

Children(s)

Annie Taylor
1852–1945
Birth Location: New Zealand
AT
James Henry
1848–1937
Birth Location: Pauatahanui, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand
JH
Mary Taylor
1845–1908
Birth Location: Pauatahanui, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand
MT
Walter Taylor
1866–1930
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
WT
Kate Taylor
1868–1942
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
KT
Jane Best
1860–1957
Birth Location: New Zealand
JB
Alfd Taylor
1872–1949
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
AT
Emily Jones
1850–1940
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
EJ
Amelia Windley
1863–1941
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
AW
Thomas Taylor
1856–1923
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, NZ
TT
Isaac Taylor
1858–1924
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
IT
G Taylor
1854–1935
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, New Zealand
GT
Frank Taylor
1862–1896
Birth Location: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
FT
Henry Taylor
1847–1848
Birth Location: Pauatahanui, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand
HT

Rachel Taylor's Ancestors

Self
Rachel Taylor
1826–1921
Birth Place: Lenham, Kent, England
Parents
Edward Matthews George Hook
1792–1856
Kent, England
Bennett (Mather) Hook
1808–1865
Otterden, Lenham, Kent, England
Grandparents
George Matthews
1764–1800
West Peckham, Kent, England
Elizabeth Matthews
1758–1840
Great-Grandparents
2nd-Great-Grandparents

Rachel Taylor's Descendants

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Rachel Taylor (15 Aug 1826–10 Dec 1921) m. James (Henry) Taylor (17 August 1823–Dec 1913)
  1. 1. Annie (Rachel) Taylor 1852–1945 m. William (Percy) Masters 1852–1932
    1. 1. James (Ethelbert) Masters 1882–1935
    2. 2. Allan (James Taylor) Masters 1892–1939
    3. 3. Annie (Rachel (Dolly)) Masters 1885–1963
    4. 4. Arthur (Willie) Masters 1888–1891
    5. 5. Ella (Myrtle) Masters 1896–1970
    6. 6. Emily (Emma May) Masters 1878–1962
    7. 7. Mona (Jane Beatrice) Masters 1880–1948
  2. 2. James Henry 1848–1937 m. Margaret Taylor 1853–1939
    1. 1. John (Andrew) Taylor 1877–1964
    2. 2. Flora (Ellen) Meston 1879–1976
    3. 3. Alice (Arabelle) Hook 1881–1938
    4. 4. Edith (Maggie) Taylor 1883–1976
    5. 5. James (Edward) Taylor 1885–1962
    6. 6. Joseph (Hector Victor) Taylor 1887–1916
    7. 7. Eric (Ronald Octavius) Taylor 1899–1935
    8. 8. Clarence (Leonard) Taylor 1889–1984
    9. 9. Percy (Harold) Taylor 1892–1967
    10. 10. Roy (Cummerfield) Taylor 1894–1953
    11. 11. Arthur (Melvin) Taylor 1896–1963
    12. 12. Zillah (Ida May) Hills 1902–1972
    13. 13. Mary (Eva) Taylor 1875–1921
    14. 14. Alice (Arabel) Hook 1881–1938
  3. 3. Mary (Anne) Taylor 1845–1908 m. Andrew (James) Whyte 1841–1882
    1. 1. Ann (Rachel) Whyte 1871–1951
    2. 2. Andrew (James) Whyte 1866–1947
    3. 3. Agnes (Russell) Whyte 1866–1961
    4. 4. Agnes (Russell) Whyte 1865–1910
    5. 5. James (Taylor) Whyte 1874–1927
    6. 6. Jane (Emily) Whyte 1876–1968
    7. 7. Kate (Valentine) Whyte 1878–1964
  4. 4. Walter Taylor 1866–1930
  5. 5. Kate (Margaret) Taylor 1868–1942
  6. 6. Jane (Sarah) Best 1860–1957 m. James Best 1861–1919
    1. 1. Myrtle (Ivy Jane) Best 1896–1981
    2. 2. Henry (Parker) Best 1893–1916
    3. 3. Kate (Rachel Taylor) Best 1890–1977
    4. 4. Millie (Elsie Pearl) Best 1886–1928
    5. 5. Kate (Ruby Rachel) Best 1888–1889
    6. 6. Frank (Albert) Best 1899–1973
    7. 7. James (Joseph Harold) Best 1889–1975
  7. 7. Alfd (Jno) Taylor 1872–1949 m. Margaret (Ellen) Taylor 1871–1958
    1. 1. Lexie (Evalyne) Taylor 1901–1997
    2. 2. Doris (Olive) Tayler 1900– m. Donald (Arthur) Wilton 1905–1981
      1. 1. Audrey (Margaret) Wilton 1927–2016
      2. 2. Graham (Taylor) Wilton 1929–2022
    3. 3. Leslie (James) Taylor 1903–1915
    4. 4. Frank (Nairn) Taylor 1904–1975
    5. 5. Gladys (Rachel) Taylor 1911–2003
    6. 6. Baby TAYLOR 1914–1914
  8. 8. Emily (Ann) Jones 1850–1940 m. James Jones 1842–1922
    1. 1. Lilian (Pearl) Jones 1889–1955
    2. 2. Ivy (Marion) Jones 1894–1979
    3. 3. Beatrice (May) Jones 1882–1975
    4. 4. Margaret (Emily Taylor) Jones 1877–1953
    5. 5. Daisy (Millicent) Jones 1887–1974
    6. 6. Clarence (Sidney) Jones 1891–1977
    7. 7. Thomas (Allan) Jones 1880–1963
    8. 8. Andrew (Percival) Jones 1884–1922
    9. 9. Ann (Rachel Gertrude) Jones 1872–1961
    10. 10. James (William Liverpool) Jones 1874–1962
  9. 9. Amelia (May) Windley 1863–1941 m. Thomas (Henry) Windley 1865–1939
    1. 1. Daisy (Anne) Windley 1898–1976
    2. 2. Evelyn Windley 1906–2005
    3. 3. Ivy (Mary) Windley 1896–1974
    4. 4. Millicent (Rachel May) Crawford 1894–1990
    5. 5. Ruby (Kate Sarah) Windley 1892–1974
    6. 6. Thomas (Henry Roy) Windley 1900–1990
    7. 7. Henry (James Taylor) Windley 1904–1976
  10. 10. Thomas (F) Taylor 1856–1923 m. Louisa (Jane) Fry 1865–1951
    1. 1. John (Albert) Taylor 1893–1968
    2. 2. Myrtle (May) Taylor 1890–1981
    3. 3. James (Henry) Taylor 1886–1964
    4. 4. Thomas (Frederick) Taylor 1888–1969
    5. 5. Alice (Adeline) Taylor 1897–1980
    6. 6. Ernest (Robert) Taylor 1898–1982
    7. 7. Herbert (Stanley) Taylor 1900–1979
    8. 8. Alfred (Arnold) Taylor 1904–1993
    9. 9. Dorothy (Eileen) Taylor 1906–2000
    10. 10. Louisa (Jane) Taylor 1907–2005
  11. 11. Isaac (Edward) Taylor 1858–1924 m. Ada (Margaret) Adams 1858–1946
    1. 1. Raymond (Everard) Taylor 1898–1988
    2. 2. Ayda (Vivian) Taylor 1895–1977
    3. 3. Ivan (Vivian) Taylor 1893–1893
  12. 12. G (W) Taylor 1854–1935 m. Martha (Mary) Taylor 1865–1951
    1. 1. Grace (Rachel) Crawford 1896–1978 m. James (O'Connor) Crawford 1891–1969
    2. 2. Kenneth (Hubert) Taylor 1894–1946 m. Kathleen (Alice) Mackie 1897–1997
      1. 1. Raymond (John) Taylor 1924–2004
    3. 3. Meta (Mary) Gwynn 1903–1989 m. Lewis (Clarke) Gwynn 1898–1961
    4. 4. Walter (Gilbert) Taylor 1892–1969 m. Annie Taylor 1896–1975
      1. 1. Ian (George) Ross-Taylor 1923–1998
      2. 2. Margaret Taylor 1922–2018
    5. 5. William (J) Taylor 1889–1942 m. Ruby (Florence) Vine 1894–1964
      1. 1. Frank (Henley) Taylor 1923–2004
      2. 2. Hubert ((Bert) William) Taylor 1922–2010
  13. 13. Frank (A) Taylor 1862–1896 m. Emma Taylor 1866–1953
    1. 1. Percival (James) Taylor 1888–1971 m. Lilian (Amy) Taylor 1891–1969
      1. 1. Percy (Frank Alwyn (Alan)) Taylor 1917–2006
      2. 2. Reginald (Colin Eric) Taylor 1928–2010
      3. 3. Olive (Pearl) Taylor 1914–1987
      4. 4. Cyril (Graham) Taylor 1919–1989
      5. 5. Dorothy (Joan) Taylor 1922–1922
    2. 2. Harold (John) Taylor 1890–1986 m. Lilian (Mary) Devonshire 1895–1972
    3. 3. Arthur (Sidney) Taylor 1896–1917
    4. 4. Ruby (Kate Rachel) Guy 1893–1970 m. John (Crosier) Guy 1894–1958
      1. 1. Pvt. (Arthur Joseph Frank) Guy 1918–1942
  14. 14. Henry (Stephen) Taylor 1847–1848

Rachel Taylor's Timeline

2 Records

1826
15 Aug 1826
Birth of Rachel Taylor in Lenham, Kent, England
Lenham, Kent, England
1921
10 Dec 1921
Age 95
Death of Rachel Taylor in Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 15 Aug 1826
    Event Place: Lenham, Kent, England
    Record Source:
    [1] Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave™ Index, 1800s-Current
    [2] Geneanet Community Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 10 Dec 1921
    Event Place: Tawa Flat, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
    Record Source:
    [1] Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave™ Index, 1800s-Current
    [2] Geneanet Community Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand
    Record Source: Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave™ Index, 1800s-Current
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