Author Topic: Family Bible of Monk & Taylor Families, Great Warley, Essex - on ebay  (Read 347 times)

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Family Register for Taylor & Monk Families 1820s-80s

St Lukes Hospice, Plymouth, have a listing on ebay for a family bible that contains some birth dates. There are three pages of names for the Monk family and the Taylor family.  The book was at some point owned by Miriam Monk who married William Taylor at St Mary's Church, Great Warley, Essex on 9 February 1876.

Here's what's on the three pages:

Some births, two have no date:

John Taylor born June 24th 1827
William Taylor August 2nd 1850
Tom Taylor February 29th 1852
Elizabeth Taylor
John Taylor July 16th 1859
Sarah Taylor April 1st 1861
Henry Taylor January 14th 1864
Ann Taylor June 18th 1866
Emily Taylor January 3rd 1871
Stephen Taylor

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Family Register of William Taylor & Miriam Monk
Married St Mary's Church, Gt Warley, Essex
February 9th 1876

Bessie A Priscilla Dec 17 1876
Willie Alfred Taylor Aug 15 1878
Minnie Louise Taylor April 2 1880
Charles Henry Taylor ... 12 1882
Florence Emily Taylor July 28 1884
Elsie Eliza Taylor July 17 1886
Fred Taylor Oct 23 1889

Deaths
Willie Taylor August 10th 1880
Elsie Taylor June 4 1888

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The third page you can't easily make out the names, but it is a simple list of birth dates for the Taylor family and Monk family, with these years:

Taylor Family
1827, 1850, 1862, 1859, 1861, 1864, 1866, 1871

Monk Family
1815, 1818, 1844, 1847, 1849, 1857, 1854, 1856, 1862

Ebay listing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Henrys-Bible-c-1820s-Family-Register-for-Taylor-Monk-Families-1820s-80s/392046163483
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