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Sarah Taylor (Wells)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
Death: October 07, 1746 (75-80)
Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Place of Burial: Marylebone, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Wells, Gent. and Mary Taylor
Wife of Thomas Taylor and John Stanbrook, Gent.
Mother of Anne Otway; Sophia Hayes (Taylor); Thomas Taylor and Maria Byrd

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Immediate Family

About Sarah Taylor

Primary Sources

On 25 Jan. 1687-8, John Stanbrook had a license from the Vicar-General, he being described as of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Esq., bachelor, aged about twenty-four, to marry Mrs. Sarah Wells, of St. Marylebone, Midx., spinster, about eighteen, with the consent of her father.

Will of John Standbrooke, junior, of St. James, Westminster, Gent., dated 4 Oct. 1688, proved on the 27th of the same month, by his father John Standbrooke, senior. He mentions his wife Sarah in his will, and her father John Wells.

Will of John Wells, Gentleman of Marylebone, Middlesex, proved 06 February 1689
mentions: "my daughter Sarah Stanbrook widow"

2nd Marriage: 7 April 1689 at Saint Mary Woolnoth, London
Thomas Taylor, Widower, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and Sarah Stanbrook, of St. Mary le Bow, Widow, by licence Cant.

Chancery Suit
Short title: Taylor v Taylor.
Document type: Bill and answer.
Plaintiffs: Sarah Taylor (widow of Thomas Taylor, esq deceased of Kensington, Middlesex, and daughter and heir of John Wells, gent of St Marylebone, Middlesex and Mary Taylor his wife, deceased) and Sophia Taylor (youngest daughter of said Thomas Taylor and Sarah Taylor), infant (by her said mother).
Defendants: Jane Taylor, widow and Jane Taylor (her daughter), infant (by her said mother), Richard Farwell and Nathan Hickman.
Date of bill (or first document): 1721.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Will of Sarah Taylor, Widow of Kensington, Middlesex, proved 20 October 1746.
mentions:
"my daughter Maria the wife of William Bird Esquire"
"my daughter Ann the wife of ffrancis Otway Esquire"
"My Grand Daughter Sarah Hayes"
"my Grandson ffrancis Otway"
"my daughter Sophia Hayes widow" (sole executrix)

Monumental Inscription

South Wall in St. Mary-le-Bone Church

Near this Place is interred the Body of Thomas Taylor, Late of Kensington in the County oi Middlesex, Esq. who departed this life, the 17th Nov. 1716, aged 80. Also is here interred the body of Mrs. Sarah Taylor, Wife of the said Thomas Taylor, who changed this life for a better, the 7th Oct. 1746, aged 80.

Preserve me O God for in thee have I put my Trust.

Psalm xvi. ver. 1.

Open me the Gates of Righteousness that I may Go into into them and Give Thanks unto the Lord.

Psalm cxviii. ver. 19.

Arms. — Arg. on a Chief Or, two boar's heads erased, Az. (a mullet for difference), impaling. Or, a lion rampant Azure.

West Wall

On this wall was formerly a monument of lead, gilt, with figures in alto-relievo, to the memory of some children of Thomas Taylor of Popes, in Hertfordshire, by Sarah, Daughter of John Wells, of Marybone, 1689, &c. But, on the alteration of the Church in 1816, this monument was stolen ; audit is difficult to find words adequate to express the indignation excited in the minds of the lovers of antiquity, at the commission of such an act of sacrilege. It is also equally surprising, that no proper investigation was set on foot to discover the real delinquent.

Source: A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone p. 74.

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Sarah Taylor's Timeline

1666
1666
London, England, United Kingdom
1698
November 19, 1698
Kensington, Middlesex, England
1702
November 25, 1702
1711
November 1, 1711
England (United Kingdom)
1746
October 7, 1746
Age 80
Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England
October 15, 1746
Age 80
St. Marylebone Churchyard, Marylebone, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
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