Thank you for your efforts! Lumsden Taylor is a bit of an international man of mystery, and I was wondering if anyone could help solve him!
In 1846 he married my great-great-great grandmother, Mary Richley, in Corbridge. They had a daughter Ann in 1848. Then two years later Mary Taylor (as she was then) re-married a Thomas Craig, and had a brood - of which I descend. Ann Taylor the child was brought up as a Craig.
Lumsden Taylor though had NOT died, and in 1881 is in Govan Combination Poorhouse and Lunatic Asylum, and in 1891 in the Royal Hospital Chelsea - In the former he claims to be have been a lawyers clerk, but was of course by that point a pauper, and in the latter case obviously claimed to have some military experience - in order to qualify as a Chelsea pensioner.
Also, what happened to his first wife whom he married (it was seem twice! haha - tho could be typo) in 1841? Where had he been not to have been on the census in that year?
There is also a story of an inheritance/legacy received by Mary Craig (his second wife) later in her life, which has a dramatic story attached to it and was later through means complicated plowed into the then embryonic Bellway Homes!
Can anybody help??
