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Offline Moscatella

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Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« on: Monday 17 March 14 13:00 GMT (UK) »
I am hoping someone can help me to find out more about Phil Taylor's birth and family - parents, grandparents. Googling his name tells me he was born 1895 (but where??) and died 1959 in New York. From his marriage record to Jane Elizabeth Olwen Bicknell (born Liss, Hampshire) in 1917 his father was George Henry Taylor, a Butcher. Other than that I and an Australian descendant have drawn a blank on his family background.

His daughter (Olwen) Megan Taylor became a professional figure skater and is fairly well documented. It's her father that's the mystery ??? ???

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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #1 on: Monday 17 March 14 13:31 GMT (UK) »
Apparently he served in the Canadian Army during World War I  http://www.rootschat.com/links/0yi8/
There is a Philip Taylor in the Canadian Soldiers of the First World War database, born in 1895.   http://www.rootschat.com/links/0yig/
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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #2 on: Monday 17 March 14 14:08 GMT (UK) »
Interesting to note that all the sites I can find state the daughter was born Megan Olwen Devenish Taylor b.25/10/1920 Rochdale, Greater Manchester - this is untrue.   She was born Olwen M. Taylor in Kingston, Surrey (the same place her parents married in 1917) so don't know where Rochdale comes from??

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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #3 on: Monday 17 March 14 14:11 GMT (UK) »
According to this link, the family emigrated to Canada in 1901, but it shows Phil(ip) and brother John b.England.  There's quite a gap between John and Edith, which makes me wonder whether Nellie was George's second wife (and, therefore, not the mother of Philip and John).

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KM5Q-4MC

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Edited to add this link from 1906, which shows just George with the two boys.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KHVC-KTH
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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #4 on: Monday 17 March 14 14:56 GMT (UK) »
Found a NY passenger list for 6/5/1927 on 'Aquitania' in which Philip Taylor is 31, an Artiste, and shown born Southend on Sea, Essex.  (I note from googling that Philip shown as Speed Skater, Stilt Skater, Barrel Jumper and Showman).

1901 Census - Dagenham, Essex - ref. RG13 - 1645 - 69 - 20.
 
George Taylor    35     Milkman     b. North Tawton, Devon
Ada Taylor     35                          b. Islington, London
Philip Taylor  5                             b. Southend, Essex
Alice Taylor   4                                   ditto
John Taylor   3                             b. Forest Gate, Essex

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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #5 on: Monday 17 March 14 15:02 GMT (UK) »
His birth is actually registered as Philip George Taylor   Dec.qtr.1895 Rochford regn. district (which covered Southend).

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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #6 on: Monday 17 March 14 15:25 GMT (UK) »
A quick look at earlier records shows George Henry Taylor bc.1865 was son of a Philip and Mary.   His birth entry would appear to be the Mar.1866 entry for Barnstaple regn. district (which covered North Tawton) for George H. Taylor.

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Scotland - Spence, Horne, Cowan, Moffat
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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #7 on: Monday 17 March 14 16:47 GMT (UK) »
A Canadian Attestation Paper for Philip Taylor states he was born in Southend on Sea, England, 12th November 1895, occupation Clerk.  http://www.rootschat.com/links/0yig/

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Re: Phil Taylor - Ice Skater
« Reply #8 on: Monday 17 March 14 19:25 GMT (UK) »
It appears that he died in Arizona, not New York.

Newspaper article - http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/16690300/  (You can read it somewhat without paying if you scroll to the bottom.)

Death certificate - http://genealogy.az.gov/azdeath/0237/02371671.pdf
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