Emma (Holdaway) Taylor (1832 - 1913)

Born 15 Apr 1832 in Lasham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Edward Oscar Debruce — married 1851 in New Zealand

Wife of James Hay Taylor — married 1859 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1913 at age 81 in Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand

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Biography

Emma (Holdaway) Taylor was born in Lasham, Hampshire, England.

Emma (Holdaway) Taylor migrated from Lasham, Hampshire, England to Nelson, New Zealand.

Emma (Holdaway) Taylor lived in Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand.

Emma (Holdaway) Taylor lived in Richmond, Tasman, New Zealand.

Emma was born in 1832 in Lasham, Hampshire. She was the second child of John Holdaway and Mary Norgate.

When Emma was a child, her family migrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1841-42 to be pioneering residents of the city of Nelson, John on the Whitby and Mary and the children (William 12, Emma 10, George 8, James 5 and an infant who was born and died on board) following in the Mary Ann several months later. Sadly, Emma's mother Mary passed away just a few months after the migration.

She married Robert Edward Oscar Debruce (1830-) in 1851 and remarried James Hay Taylor (1821-1868) in 1859, with whom she raised a number of children.

Emma died on 17 September 1913^[1] and is buried in Richmond Cemetery.^[2]

There is considerably more detail about the Holdaway family's migration to New Zealand and first years there on the profile of Emma's father John Holdaway (1804-1888). There is also a detailed account of Emma's life and legacy (including photos and a full family tree up to 1991) in the chapter of The Holdaway Family: Pioneers of Nelson about her and her family, which is uploaded as an image.

Research notes

Have added "needs profile created" category for additional child(ren) profiles not yet created. Family records/research (see chapter in the Holdaway book, uploaded as an image) lists three other children without profiles created, but a birth record has been found for just one of these (it seems there were not birth registrations until after marriage to James Taylor):

• James, born in 1857. Not married, no children.
  
• Mary (known as Polly). Married John Victor Edwards (possible marriage registration 1875/1875), had 4 children, grandchildren etc. Possible obituary: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MEX18930715.2.6?end_date=24-07-1893&items_per_page=20&query=%22Edwards%22+AND+%28%22Mary+Louisa%22+OR+%22M+L%22%29+AND+%28%22death%22+OR+%22funeral%22+OR+%22inquest%22+OR+%22obituary%22+OR+%22deaths%22+OR+%22funerals%22+OR+%22inquests%22+OR+%22obituaries%22%29&snippet=true&start_date=10-07-1893
  
• Isabella [Bella] (1861-), birth registration 1861/8780. Married Bill [Alec] Brown, no children known. Anderson-53301 10:29, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ NZ Death registration, 17/09/1913, 1913/6980
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed April 14, 2024), memorial page for Emma Holdaway Taylor (15 Apr 1832–17 Sep 1913), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #201714873, citing Richmond Cemetery, Richmond, Tasman District, Tasman, New Zealand; Maintained by JjH (contributor 48491654).

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7YF-172 : 30 December 2014, Emma Holdaway, ); citing Lasham, Hampshire, England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,359,029.

• "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-J2G7 : accessed 30 September 2017), Robert Edward Oscar de Bruce and Emma Holdaway, 1851; citing Marriage, New Zealand, New Zealand, Wellington; registration number 1851/1460.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Cyril Walker for starting this profile through the import of cyrilsfamilys.ged on Jun 28, 2013, supported by David Schwass through the import of Schwass Tree (1).ged on Apr 17, 2014. '