John
James
Taylor
Born in Cape Town, South Africa
Ancestors 
Son of John Miles Taylor
and Jacoba Louisa Hendriks
Brother of
Henry Theodore Taylor, Jacoba Maria Louisa (Taylor) Euvrard and Anne Cornelia (Taylor) Joubert
Husband of
Elizabeth Wilhelmina Fredrika (Louw) Taylor
— married
15 Feb 1882 in Cape Town [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Jacoba Louisa Taylor, Rachel Susanna Dorothea (Taylor) de Villiers, John Miles Taylor, Elizabeth Wilhelmina Johanna (Taylor) van der Merwe, Margaretha Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Johannes Taylor, Henry Theodore Taylor and Allen Chase Taylor
Died about
at about age 77
in Melville Johannesburg South Africa
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Dec 2015
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Biography
He was born 1841 in Cape Town. On February 15th 1882 he married Elizabeth Wilhelmina Fredrika Louw (b. March 8th 1858) .They moved to Prince Alfred Hamlet where he owned the Commercial Hotel and a transport business that operated between Wellington and Kimberly during the gold rush. During the Boer war he helped the Boers with overnight accommodation and supplies. The English seized his property and banished him from Prince Alfred Hamlet. They lived for a while in Ceres, Cape. They had eight children. He died on the September 14th 1918 in Melville Johannesburg.
Sources
- from Riaan Taylor
- Marriage - Dutch Reform Church Registers
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~1.56%
Pam (Ashford) Buchanan
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~0.78%
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