Elizabeth Taylor

refer to Beth MacKenzie's memoir for quotes on GG Taylor profile photo is probably shortly after Elizabeth immigrated to Canada. Her dress is rather old fashioned, but profile is detail of a photo of Granddaddy Taylor, and definitely after the War. Early '20's. making her in mid-40s

Strathkinness is a small village 3 miles west of St. Andrews, in NE Fife. Population 925 (2006). Children of age for secondary school normally attend Madras College in St. Andrews. At least one of Elizabeth's siblings--Tom--attended Madras. The 1891 Scotland Census reports that the family, including Elizabeth, age 18 (the census says she is 15, so not sure--could be that whoever instructed the grave marker carver was unclear), was living at 27 South Street in St. Andrews, which is supported by the golf historian who remembered that the family ran a dairy on South Street. She and her adult children (Robert 20, Elizabeth "Lizzie" 18) emigrated from Scotland in 1920. Her husband emigrated at least 8 years earlier. (The 1921 Canadian Census says he immigrated to Canada in 1912, but his enlistment record for the Calgary Ambulance Corps says he came to Canada in 1911.) According to her granddaughter (my mother, Beth) she was either afraid to leave what she had always known or had an obligation to care for her mother. Both make sense and are not contradictory.