John TAYLOR and his wife Mary Ann nee TANNAHILL - Trove Tuesday

John and Mary Ann TAYLOR were my husband's paternal great-grandparents.

John was born in 1855 in Preston, Lancashire, England to parents Henry Elkanah TAYLOR and Mary Ann nee DURHAM

Mary Ann was born in 1859 at Creswick, Victoria to parents Andrew TANNAHILL and Elizabeth WATSON.

John and Mary Ann married at Creswick, Victoria on the 6th of September 1875.  They had eleven children, some died in infancy and some died before their parents.

Sadly, at the age of 71 years, Mary Ann suffered a nasty accident which caused her death.

John reached a grand age of 90 years and had been living with his son Jack.

Some years ago in an email, I received the wonderful digital photo below from another family researcher which was taken at John and Mary Ann's 50th wedding anniversary which would have been in 1925.  Unfortunately silly me did not label the photo in my computer file and have since changed computer and email program so I no longer have a record of who gave it to me.

I am hoping if I post the photo here that person may see it and contact me.

I am fairly sure my husband's grandparents, Henry Elkanah TAYLOR and Margaret nee DUNCAN,  are far left in the back row.

Henry Elkanah TAYLOR and his wife Mary Ann nee DURHAM - Trove Tuesday

My husband's great-great-grandparents came to Australia from Lancashire, England and settled at Ballarat, Victoria.

Henry Elkanah TAYLOR had married Mary Ann DURHAM in England on the 21st of June 1846.

They had six children.  So far I only have further details on two sons, my husband's great-grandfather, John and his brother William.

John and William both named sons Henry Elkanah TAYLOR.

Mary died at Clark's Hill, Victoria on the 4th of October 1903

Henry died on the 11th of April 1910 at Peel Street, Ballarat.