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Ruth, I've just seen your message. I have some information on the family of Henry Seager. It is not from US census data. If you are interested please let me know.

Jan

I can help you with Thomas. He and Elizabeth Bywater had at least eight children. They left Canada after January 1862 and eventually settled in Grand Rapids , Michigan. Thomas died c1878 and Elizabeth c1888. The children are M.E. (female), Thomas, Flora, Annie Mason Turner, Charles Larklin (Lachlan?), Lillian, Rosa, and John Bailey.

I have more info if you would like it.

Jan Laury

And finally............................

John B McKay b1871 Detroit (Bailey born there as well) married the 18 years old Lulu Bushing on April 9 1891 in Grand Rapids. John B's parents are Thomas McKay and Elizabeth Bywater.

Could John B be Bailey? No sign of Lulu and John B in census data.

Jan

Information on Lillian of Grand Rapids is helpful but she may have lied about her age (as did mum, see below)

In the 1880 US census in Grand Rapids, Michigan we have:

Elizabeth Mackay, a widow allegedly 48 which is unlikely if she married in 1846, born in England and her children who had a scottish father - Charles b1862 in Canada, Lillian b1865 in Michigan, Rosa b1868 in Michigan, John B b1870 in Michigan, and Annie Loring b1859 in Canada with her son Ocie b1878 in Michigan.

No sign of this family in the 1870 US census or the 1861 Canada census - checked both Mackay and McKay.

Family must have moved in first part of 1860s from Canada to US. Thomas dead by 1880 but probably alive in 1870 when his son was born.

Jan

With a bit more digging, quite a lot of information has come to light.

Children of Thomas Malligaum Taylor

Additional information on the children of Alice Jane Taylor who married Alfred Walton Brailsford:

1 Ethel Wood Brailsford had a daughter Cynthia Brailsford Burnley (1909 - 1964) who married Ernest F Tew in 1938.

2 Alice Redpath Brailsford (1881 - 1973) also had a son Meredith Taylor Booth (1907 - 1994). He married Anne Shinner in 1946 and they appear to have had four children.

3 Mary Drummond Brailsford (1883 - 1968?) also had a daughter Isabella de Castro Woodburn (b1910) who married Richard W M Macalpine and they appear to have had two sons. Mary's son Alfred married Audrey Bateman-Champain in 1937 and they had a son and a daughter. It appears that Alfred and Audrey were murdered in South Africa in May 1980. Alfred was awarded the MC for his actions in Burma in 1944. There are further descendants.

Additional information on the children of Edward Thornton Taylor (1858 - 1922)

William Palmer Ladd (1870 - 1941) who married Alice Mary Taylor was the Dean of Berekley Divinity School and he oversaw its move to the edge of the Yale University campus. (It is now a full affiliate of Yale.) Their son John was Professor of Philosophy at Brown University He died in February 2011. Their daughter Penelope died in 1988. She had married Thomas W D Wright, an architect, and they had three children. There are further descendants.

Children of Edward Thornton Taylor (1824 - 1900)

Kate Peploe Taylor's daughter Mona Beatrice Hanrahan married Emerson James Howard on January 27 1921. Mona and Emerson are buried in the same cemetery as her mother (St Alphonse/Alphonsus in Windsor, Ontario) They had at least five children, starting with twins Emerson James and Mary Elizabeth born on December 7 1921. He died in 2005 in Grosse Point Farms, Michigan and according to his obituary he had three children and three grandchildren. His sister was still alive in 2005 and had married a Mr. Kennedy. The other three children were Patricia, Kathryn, and William and they all predeceased their older brother.

Jan