Category: Taylor
Ruth Taylor connects the main Carroll branch of my family tree to the Taylor branch as she married Patrick Carroll and is my Grandpa Carroll’s mother.
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
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The Franks of Kirchenkirnberg
Kate Frank, my 4x great grandmother was born one hundred and eighty years ago this November 29th, in the year 1845 in Kirchenkirnberg, what is now a neighborhood of the town of Murrhardt, in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Her father, Gottlieb Frank was born in Kirchenkirnberg in 1802. Kirchenkirnberg was a part of…… Read more
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The Möri’s of Switzerland
The surname Moeri (or Möri) is common in the canton of Bern, Switzerland even today. The canton of Bern began as a city-state way back in 1191 and joined the Swiss Confederacy in 1353. It’s roots go even further back, with the earliest human settlements dated back to the Neolithic period (10,000 BC – 2200…… Read more
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The Taylor Family Line
The mother of my maternal grandfather was Ruth Taylor. Ruth was born on the 4th of July 1897 to Anna Moeri and James Peter “JP” Taylor. Anna and JP were married in Peoria Illinois in 1895. JP worked as a barber and they lived at 506 Greenleaf Street, which today is a parking structure for…… Read more
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Union of Patrick Carroll and Ruth Taylor
This week marks an interesting anniversary for my family. Some 110 years ago, around April 1st, 1915 my maternal grandfather’s parents were married. Well that’s the story anyway. We don’t have any proof of this. You see Patrick was already married. Let’s go back a bit, it’s an interesting story. Patrick Henry Carroll was born…… Read more