Taylors of Virginia, possibly Culpeper County?

Question

I'm looking for my Great Grandmother's grandfather, J.B. Taylor Sr. and his ancestors.

My great grandmother's name was Mary Eliza Taylor (Taylor-37850) b. 1877, I think in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.  She married John Scott Thompson.  Her parents and the Thompsons both lived in East Feliciana Parish, her parents in Clinton and the Thompsons in Plains.

Her father was John Barber Taylor (Taylor-37881) also born in Louisiana, in 1846.   He uses the suffix "Jr." on his marriage license.

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=vYH256&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=LAmarriages_ga&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=John%20Barber&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Taylor&gsln_x=0&msgdy=1868&msgpn__ftp=Louisiana,%20USA&msgpn=21&msgpn_PInfo=5-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C0%7C21%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C&mssns=Moody&MSAV=1&uidh=m35&pcat=34&fh=0&h=489517&recoff=10%2011%2013%2034%2035&ml_rpos=1

Interestingly, my grandmother's sister (Thompson-32262) married Henry Barber Young (Young-22574), so I have a feeling that the "Barber" name might have had some special significance in that community.

In the 1860 US Census John Barber Taylor Jr is living with his parents, father J.B. Taylor born in Virginia, and wife, possibly "A" Taylor, born in Mississippi, both 48 years old, so both born about 1812.

 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSS-QS1?mode=g&i=71&wc=QZ2C-JCB%3A1589427264%2C1589427707%2C1589422206&cc=1473181

I have not successfully located death records for J.B. Taylor Sr or his wife.

I stumbled upon some random emails from 1999 in rootsweb that mention Barbour family marrying Taylor family several times in Culpeper County Virginia, but nothing that truly fit there, but the names Barbour and Taylor are strongly associated together.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TAYLOR/1999-03/0921394206

Most of what I have came from The Thompson Book http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bhusler/Bill/Surname_Sources/Thompson/~barneyt/bo-c14.txt

as well as "The Plains and The People" by Virginia Lobdell Jennings.

And I have Mary Eliza Taylor Thompson's bible, pictures of pages are attached to the WikiTree profiles, but what is there begins with her marriage.  

There are some additional details on the WikiTree pages, deaths, gravesites, census records.  Maybe I've overlooked something, but I don't think so.  

Any help is appreciated.  I've called cousins I haven't talked to in 45 years and cousins I didn't know existed.  This is a brick wall.

Thanks

Lynn Wiggers

Comments

Look for Mary Jane Courtney, daughter of Reverend Ezra Courtney and Elizabeth Deadline. Mary Jane married first Doctor Robert Monroe Pearse then John Barbour Taylor. 

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Jane Pearse

 in the Louisiana, Compiled Marriages, 1728-1850

Name:	Jane Pearse
Spouse:	John B. Taylor
Marriage Date:	5 Feb 1839
Marriage County:	East Feliciana

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Compiled Marriages, 1728-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

Original data: Dodd, Jordan R, et. al.. Early American Marriages: Louisiana to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers, 

 

For John Barbour Taylor Sr look for Thomas Taylor and Frances Barbour  both born and died in Virginia.

 

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Frances Barber

 in the Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800

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Name:	Frances Barber
Spouse:	Thomas Taylor
Marriage Date:	11 Oct 1800
Marriage Location:	Madison County, Virginia

Source Information

Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

 

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Frances Barbour

 in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

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Name:	Frances Barbour
Birth Date:	1776
Birth Place:	Richmond, Virginia
Death Date:	1805
Death Place:	Madison, Virginia
SAR Membership:	81325
Role:	Ancestor
Application Date:	29 Jan 1960
Spouse:	Thomas Taylor
Children:	Martha Taylor

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

National Society, Sons of the American Revolution

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Frances Taylor

 in the 1850 United States Federal Census

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Name:	Frances Taylor
Age:	74
Birth Year:	abt 1776
Birthplace:	Virginia
Home in 1850:	Madison, Virginia, USA
Gender:	Female
Family Number:	38
Household Members:	Name Age Thomas Taylor 83 Frances Taylor 74 Sarah J Taylor 42 Margaret A Taylor 28 Arthur H Taylor 27

Source Citation

Year: 1850; Census Place: Madison, Virginia; Roll: M432_958; Page: 58B; Image: 120

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

 

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Wow.  Thank you,  I have been looking for this for a long time.  

 

Lynn

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Auto correct on earlier post - didn't notice

Ezra Courtney and Elizabeth Dearmond daughter of Thomas D and Mary Flenniken.

 

Good luck. Holler if you need stuff

Hugs

Eddie

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Any mention of Taylors in Virginia piques my interest. I have an obscure Taylor connection from colonial times (Quakers) that I would like to push back in time..

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With Eddie's help I definitely found my Taylor's in Virginia and I think I have most of it in WikiTree now.   Hope it helped you too.

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Hugs and a smooch on your cheek. ;-)

Answer 1

If you have Colonial Taylors in Culpepper County, Virginia, then you may belong to the greater Elizabeth Taylor (actor) -Zachary Taylor (President) tree.

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Interesting.  Zachary Taylor is my 4th cousin 6 times removed on my mother's side.   The Taylors are on my dad's side.  I shall endeavor to ascertain.   

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I belong to those Taylors.