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John Taylor
b: 17?? d: 18??
John was Calum's and Jamie's great great great great great great grandfather.
Little is yet known of John. He married a lady who is recorded as
Elizabeth Taylor on the birth certs for both of their two sons called Arthur, born in 1808 and
1812 - whether that was also her maiden name is as yet unclear.
CHILDREN of JOHN TAYLOR and ELIZABETH TAYLOR:
Arthur Taylor
b: 7/8/1808 d: 18??
Arthur was born in the Shankill townland of Belfast and baptised in St.
Anne's Church of Ireland by curate William Holmes. He died in infancy.
Arthur Taylor
b: 26/1/1812
Calum's and Jamie's great great great great great grandfather -
see below.
 Arthur Taylor
26/1/1812 - 1???
Arthur was Calum's and Jamie's great great great great great grandfather.
Arthur was born on January 26th 1812 in the St. Anne's parish of Belfast,
in the townland of Shankill. He was baptised in St. Anne's Church of Ireland by the curate there, William Holmes. Arthur
was in fact the second son of his father to be so named, his brother
of the same name having been born in 1808 and then died in infancy.
At some stage in Belfast, prior to 1848, he married Isabella Hall
and had at least one son, named after himself.
In 1856 it appears that Arthur got himself into a spot of trouble with the law. On Monday 5th
May an article in the Belfast Newsletter states what happened:
BELFAST POLICE COURT - Saturday
LARCENIES
...
Arthur Taylor was also ordered to be imprisoned one month, in default of
paying a fine of 20s and costs for having stolen a saw, the property of his late employer David Ruddell, and pawned it with
Mr James McCleery.
In the 1861 Belfast Street Directory, Arthur was listed as living at 16
Upper Cargill Street, off Boundary Street, and as working as a sawyer. In 1870 he is found at 116 Boundary Street, again
noted as being a sawyer (and it should be noted that in 1863-64, there was a John Taylor at 8 Boundary Street, noted as a
stonesawyer). And in his son's wedding entry to Christina Kane
in 1873, Arthur senior was further recorded as a sawyer, and as still being alive.
It is not yet known what became of Arthur after this. There is a note of an Arthur Taylor at 12 Cargill
Street in 1877, but it is not known if this is our Arthur.
CHILDREN of ARTHUR TAYLOR and ISABELLA HALL:
Arthur Taylor
b: 11/8/1848
Calum's and Jamie's great great great great grandfather - see below.
Arthur Taylor
11/8/1848 - 1???
Arthur was Calum's and Jamie's great great great great grandfather.
Arthur was born on August 11th 1848 in the St. Anne's parish of the Shankill townland of Belfast,
Ireland.
Arthur in fact married twice in his early adult life. On December 7th 1867, at the age of 19, he married
22 year old mill worker Elizabeth McNeil, daughter of weaver Michael McNeil. The ceremony
took place at St. George's Church of Ireland in Belfast's Shankill townland, was performed by the Reverend E. K. Howe, and
witnessed by William Bailie and Mary Anne Everett. Arthur's father was listed as a
sawyer. The couple are known to have had at least two sons.
Presumably Elizabeth must have died within the next six years, as at the age of 25, Arthur then remarried
to Christina Kane, daughter of watchman James Kane. The marriage took place on August
2nd 1873, in a service performed by the the Reverend J. Spence at St. Anne's Church of Ireland, in the Shankill townland. Both
Arthur and Christina were described as residing in Belfast, with Arthur listed as a labourer. The witnesses to the wedding
were a C. Kane and a J. Rogers. Of particular note is the fact that Arthur was listed as
being a widower, but it is not yet known who his first wife was or if they had had any children together prior to his first
wife's death.
In his daughter Matilda's marriage entry in the Belfast register for January 5th 1892, Arthur was
described as a mechanic.
On September 28th 1912, also known as Ulster Day, Arthur was a signatory to the
Ulster Covenant, a document signed by almost a quarter of a million adult Protestant men, whilst a further quarter of
a million women signed an equivalent document, a declaration of loyalty to the Crown. Arthur signed the Ulster Covenant
at City Hall, Belfast, and at the time was living at 36 Cairo Street.
The Covenant stated:
Covenant:-
BEING CONVINCED in our conscience that Home Rule would be disastrous to
the material well-being of Ulster as well as of the whole of Ireland, subversive to our civil and religious freedom, destructive
of our citizenship, and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we, whose names are under-written, men of Ulster, loyal subjects
of His Gracious Majesty King George V, humbly relying on the God whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently
trusted, do hereby pledge ourselves in solemn Covenant, throughout this our time of threatened calamity, to stand by one another
in defending, for ourselves and our children, our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using
all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland. And in
the event of such a Parliament being forced upon us, we further solemnly and mutually pledge ourselves to refuse to recognise
its authority. In sure confidence that God will defend the right, we hereto subscribe our names.
And further, we individually declare that we have not already signed this
Covenant.
It is not yet known when Arthur died, except that it was after 1912.
CHILDREN of ARTHUR TAYLOR and ELIZABETH McNEILL:
William Taylor
b: 14/11/1868
William was born to Arthur and Eliza (sic) in Belfast urban district no. 5 on November 14th 1868 (source
Emerald Ancestry website, uncited).
Robert Taylor
b: 29/5/1870
Robert was born to Arthur and Eliza (sic) in Belfast urban district no. 5 on May 29th 1870 (source
Emerald Ancestry website, uncited).
(Unchristened) Taylor
b: 29/4/1871
This baby girl was born to Arthur Taylor and Eliza M'Neill (sic) on April 29th 1871, in Belfast urban
district no. 3. The fact that she was unchristened suggests that she died at birth or shortly after (source Emerald Ancestry website, uncited).
CHILDREN of ARTHUR TAYLOR and CHRISTINA KANE:
Matilda Jane Taylor
b: 28/5/1874
Calum's and Jamie's great great great grandmother - see
below.
Isabella Taylor
b: 16/4/1876 d: after 1912
Isabella was born in Antrim, County Antrim, Ireland, on April 16th 1876.
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| Bella's signature in 1912 |
It is not yet known what became of Isabella, more colloquially known as 'Bella', although it
appears that she signed the Declaration of Loyalty in 1912, the women's version of the Ulster Covenant, against the notion
of Home Rule for Ireland. At the time of the signing, Bella was listed as living at the family home of 36 Cairo
Street in Belfast.
James Taylor
b: 18?? d: after 1912
The only mention we have of James so far is the fact that he also
signed the Ulster Covenant in Belfast in 1912, and was also resident at 36 Cairo Street in the city, along with Bella and
Arthur Taylor. It seems likely that he was a son of Arthur and Christina.
Arthur Taylor - unconfirmed
b: ????
The death index to the Ulster Historical Foundation lists an Arthur Taylor, son of
an Arthur Taylor, getting married in Belfast's Shankill townland on December 11th 1903. Further info on this
from the Emerald Ancestry website suggests he married Annie Myers, at the Shankill Trinity Church of
Ireland. The cert has yet to be consulted to confirm wherher or not he was in our particular Taylor family group.
Matilda Jane Taylor
28/5/1874 - 1???
Matilda was Calum's and Jamie's great great great grandmother.
Matilda was born at the home of James Kane, her maternal grandfather, 5 Cargill Street in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland, on May 28th 1874, and was baptised
shortly after on June 10th. In the baptismal entry for her birth, her father was listed as a labourer, and the sponsor was
noted as Ann McClelland.
Matilda married clerk John Montgomery on January 5th 1892 at St. Enoch's Church of Ireland in Belfast. She was described as being a spinster
of full age, i.e. 21 or older, with her father Arthur listed as a mechanic. The witnesses to the wedding were John
McCormick and Isabella Montgomery, presumably a relative of her husband, whilst the minister was
the Reverend William Wallace.
On March 6th 1895 Matilda was living at 50 Seaview, off the York Road in
Belfast, where she gave birth to her daughter Charlotte.
In the 1901 census, Matilda was noted as being the head of the house at the family home on Cavour
Street, perhaps implying that her husband John, a seaman, was away at sea when the record was taken.
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| Matilda's signature on the loyalty Declaration of 1912 |
The next we hear of Matilda is on Saturday, September 28th 1912, or "Ulster Day",
the date on which she signed the Declaration of Loyalty to the British Crown, an act of opposition to the possible ceding
of Home Rule to Ireland by the British Liberal Government. Whilst her daughter Charlotte signed the declaration at Clifton
Street Orange Hall in North Belfast, Matilda opted to sign the document at Belfast City Hall, in the city centre. It is not
yet known where (or even if) her husband John signed the parallel Ulster Covenant (the men's equivalent). Like most Ulster
Protestants, Matilda no doubt went to a church service before the act of signing, such was the almost religious zeal in which
the cause of both the Covenant and the Declaration were treated. As well as recording her signature, the declaration also
lists the fact that Matilda was living at the time at 6 Cavour Street, Belfast (PRONI:D1327/3/5324).
It is not yet known what became of Matilda subsequent to this act.
Charlotte Harper Montgomery
b: 6/3/1895 d: 29/4/1974
Calum's and Jamie's great great grandmother - see Montgomery page.
Connecting to Calum and Jamie
Charlotte Harper Montgomery married Ernest Graham
in 1919.
Son, Ernest Graham, married Martha Jane Elisabeth
Watton Smyth in 1943.
Daughter, Charlotte Harper Graham, married Colin
Paton in 1969.
Son, Christopher Mark Paton, married Claire Patricia
Giles in 2000.
Sons, Calum Graham Paton and Jamie Christopher Paton.
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