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Are you sure you've got the right Eliza Taylor baptism?

There's one for Eliza Taylor - 1813 - St.Leonard Shoreditch - parents Thomas and Jane (she may have taken a couple of years off her age so as not to appear older than her husband.

There's also an Ann Taylor - 1820 - St.Leonard Shoreditch - parents Thomas and Jane.

Ann Taylor married Joseph William Tyrell in 1840 - She has her father as Thomas Taylor a well digger (same as Eliza)

You know what Christina, you may be right.
Looking at James and Eliza's marriage record, and her father Thomas is listed as a well digger, but in the birth records as a porter.
I went back to a post you made..

"I can't see a birth registration for Edward Broomhead but there is one for
Edward Taylor - Oct-Dec 1837 - Hackney

It could be that Eliza had him before she married James. (They were both only about 25 years old when they married)"

That could well explain why he was called Broomhead, but we have to remember that Taylor was a very common name in the area.
Incidently, Eliza Taylor's great granddaughter Elsie Fish, married George Taylor. I will of course be wondering if there is any ancestral connection!

OK, back to the drawing board to eliminate some and make certain of others.
Thankyou.

Hi Wendy

sorry not to have replied to your messages, but have been away since the 21st and only back yesterday.

I have looked at the baptisms Christine mentions: the one for Ann gives her father as an Ostler and there is another baptism for an Ann in 1817 which also gives her father as an Ostler - think the below is her burial; the baptism for Eliza gives her father as porter.


England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970

Name:Ann Taylor
Birth Date:abt 1818
Event Type:Burial
Death Date:abt 1819
Death Age:7/12 - images is 1-7 (one year 7 months,
Burial Date:
Jan 1819
Burial Place:London, Middlesex, England

Piece 313: Orders for funerals, 1818

There is also a baptism for a Thomas in 1816, parents Thomas & Jane; Thomas shown as a porter and same address as the one for Eliza (Union Buildings);

Sorry all, I let my membership lapse and have only just got back and checking threads.
I am currently doing an online uNI course, and that is taking up a lot of my time, but this thread is extremely interesting and I will not give up until I find a link to Mackay! Please bear with me as I refamiliarise myself with this branch and look at where it stands. :)