Author Topic: Will of Staff Sa!rgeant Job TAYLOR- a big ask  (Read 2149 times)

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Re: Will of Staff Sa!rgeant Job TAYLOR- a big ask
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 08 November 16 03:53 GMT (UK) »
Just a thanks to all those who helped with Deciphering the Will, and to finding out what subsequently transpired to Job and Lucy.

Just by way of a postcript: Job TAYLOR survived the rest of the war, but was drowned along with his wife Lucy and many others when returning to England when the transport The Queen broke up during a storm in Falmouth Harbour on 14 January 1814.

This incident led to a celebrated legal case where the court had to decide whether Job's estate had passed at any point to Lucy (and therefore subsequently to her family) or should go to Job's family.  The latter prevailed.
NEAL, TAYLOR, WRIGHT, BIDWELL, PRICE, YEARDLEY, RODGERS, HANDLEY, ELLIS, LOWE, HOUGH, ANNABLE, DAWSON, SANDERSON, PARKIN