Elizabeth Parsons née Taylor (1810 to 1874)

Elizabeth Taylor was Sidney Parsons’ paternal grandmother. Her son John with her husband Edward Parsons was Sidney’s father and the present author’s great-grandfather.

Elizabeth was baptised in Marston Magna in Somerset on the 15^th of April 1810, a daughter of John Taylor who was a baker, and his wife Rosanna Bond. John and Rosanna Bond had both been born in High Ham, a village near Langport on the edge of the Somerset levels, but they had married in Yeovil which is not far from Marston Magna.

Elizabeth had two sisters, Mary and Sarah, and two brothers, Thomas and John. Her eldest brother Thomas eventually took over the bakery in Marston Magna from his father.

Elizabeth married Edward Parsons in February 1831. Edward was the eldest son of the owner of the largest farm in the village.

At first Elizabeth and Edward lived in Marston Magna and the following year they had twin daughters, Jane and Elizabeth who were baptised there. But Jane died when she was only 5 months old. Their next child was a boy, Isaac, and then another girl whom they named Jane after her deceased elder sister.

Although Elizabeth’'s husband Edward was the eldest son, his father Charles chose not to leave him a legacy and his wealth passed to Edward’s brothers and sisters. So Edward and Elizabeth lived the lives of ordinary working country people. Edward took a job as a gamekeeper in Bruton and he and Elizabeth lived there for a few years. They had another son while they were there and they named him James. By 1844 he and his family had moved back to Marston Magna where they had two more daughters, Mary and Martha, and two more sons, John and Henry. But Henry died when he was only 12 years old. They lived in Marston Magna for the remainder of their lives.

Elizabeth died of chronic bronchitis and exhaustion in Marston Magna on the 29^th of December 1874. She was 64 years old. Her husband Edward was 65. Seven years later he married again and lived with his second wife, who was also called Elizabeth, until he died.

Elizabeth Parsons née Taylor’s children

Elizabeth and Edward had four sons and five daughters none of whom made their lives in Marston Magna. Four of them — Elizabeth, Isaac, James and John — settled in or near Southampton in Hampshire.

John, who was born in 1845, was the father of Sidney Parsons’ who is the main subjecy of this series of web pages.

Details of Elizabeth’s children’s lives can be found on the page devoted to her husband Edward Parsons.

Ancestors of Elizabeth Parsons née Taylor

Parents
Father — John Taylor who was born in the village of High Ham near Langport in Somerset but lived for most of his life as a baker in Marston Magna.
Mother — Rosanna Bond who was also born in High Ham but who married John in Yeovil.

Grandparents
Grandfather — Charles Taylor who was born in Somerton but lived for most of his life in High Ham.
Grandmother — Catherine Tucker who was born in High Ham and married John there in 1761.

Grandfather — John Bond, a carpenter from High Ham.
Grandmother — Anne Read, who also came from High Ham.

Great-grandparents
Great-grandfather — Jeremiah Taylor, a blacksmith and beer seller from Somerton in Somerset who was sometimes in trouble with the law for allowing gambling on his premises.
Great-grandmother — Betty Salisbury who was the third child, and eldest daughter, of a blacksmith in Somerton.

Great-grandfather — Robert Tucker who came from High Ham in Somerset.
Great-grandmother — Katherine or Catherine (surname unknown), Robert’s wife.

Great-grandfather — John Bond, who was born in High Ham during the reign of King William III.
Great-grandmother — Joan Cozens

Great-grandfather — James Read, who was baptised in High Ham but whose father lived had come from Drayton, a neighbouring parish.
Great-grandmother — Christabel Cooksley who married James when they were both only about 17 years old.

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You are free to make use of the information in these web pages in any way that you wish but please be aware that the author, Mike Parsons, is unable to accept respsonsibility for any errors or omissions.

Mike can be contacted at parsonspublic@gmail.com

The information in these web pages comes from a number of sources including: Hampshire County Records Office, Somerset Heritage Centre; Dorset County Records Office; Southampton City Archives; the General Register Office; several on-line newspaper archives; several on-line transcriptions of Parish Register Entries; and several on-line indexes of births, marriages and deaths. The research has also been guided at times by the published work of others, both on-line and in the form of printed books, and by information from personal correspondence with other researchers, for all of which thanks are given. However, all of the information in these web pages has been independently verified by the author from original sources, facimile copies, or, in the case of a few parish register entries, transcriptions published by on-line genealogy sites. The author is aware that some other researchers have in some cases drawn different conclusions and have published information which is at variance from that shown in these web pages.