Sarah Falconer / John Taylor M.A. rector Musselburgh Grammar School

[Forfarian]

Liz, see http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=26232.0

[MonicaL]

In case you don't have this, Liz:

John Taylor A.M., Rector of the Grammar School (d. before 3.2.1824; his dau. Matilda m. Alex Vernor, esq., of Holmes, 3.2.1824)
www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/Inveresk.html

Monica

[MonicaL]

Can't easily see a ref to John Taylor graduating from Glasgow University https://archive.org/stream/rollofgraduateso00addiuoft/rollofgraduateso00addiuoft_djvu.txt

Monica

[tidybooks]

In case you don't have this, Liz:

John Taylor A.M., Rector of the Grammar School (d. before 3.2.1824; his dau. Matilda m. Alex Vernor, esq., of Holmes, 3.2.1824)
www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/Inveresk.html

Monica

Hi Monica,

Is that a typo, should that be M.A. after John Taylor, not A.M. We have a date of death and a will for this John Taylor. I am beginning to think that we have a different John Taylor and different Sarah Falcon*r. Getting so many hits but not matching them.

Trust you and family are well, Monica.

Tom (69 and 11/12ths)

[MonicaL]

Nearly Happy Birthday, Tom 

The MA sometimes shows as AM for some reason, such as here too www.rootschat.com/links/01mi0/  Don't know why.

Monica 

Added: A Master of Arts (Latin: Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Latin: Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts

[tidybooks]

Hi Liz et all,

Found the marriage of Captain John Taylor to Sarah Falconer, 17 July 1823 in Bombay.

[Forfarian]

That was Sarah Falconer Graham, not Sarah Falconer. The full record reads, "John Taylor Esquire a Captain in the Military Service of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies on their Bengal Establishment a Bachelor and Miss Sarah Falconer Graham of Bombay Spinster were married in this Church by Licence from the Honourable the Court of the Recorder, this seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty three by Me, Thos Carr, Garrison Chaplain. This marriage was solemnized between us, J Taylor, Sarah Falconer Graham, in the presence of us, Henrietta Louiza Wedderburn, Jane Black, J Wedderburn, Chas Thomas, Wm Bruce."

The family of John Taylor and Sarah Falconer were born between 1780 and 1795. Sarah Falconer Graham, daughter of William Graham and Janet Edmonstone, was born in 1799. Her baptism is in the registers of both Dirleton and Haddington.

So this is a completely different couple.

Though her unusual given names may warrant some investigation. William Graham and Janet Edmonstone were married in Haddington in 1796. Could Janet be the daughter of Andrew Edmonstone and Mary Falconer, baptised in Lauder in 1771? Could Mary be connected to Thomas Falconer of Reidhall/Woodcote?

[Forfarian]

Is that a typo, should that be M.A. after John Taylor, not A.M.

No.

It's the Latin version of 'Master of Arts', i.e. 'Artium Magister'.

At a guess I'd say the most likely place for him to have obtained a degree would be the University of Edinburgh. Their alumni records are much less accessible than those of the University of Glasgow (and, for that matter, the University of Aberdeen) but the University of Edinburgh Archives should be able to tell you if he was a graduate of Edinburgh, and, if so, who his father was.

[tidybooks]

Hi Forfarian,

Just noticed the error I made, just got her birth on OPR. I am finding a lot of similar looking names but cannot find the marriage at all.

Thanks Ann for pointing it out.

Tom