John Duncombe Taylor

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1835

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Unsuccessful claimant for Little Sion and Sion Hill estates in Antigua as owner-in-fee. Married Mary Cooper Vanderhorst, daughter of Elias Vanderhorst (1738-1816) of South Carolina. His daughter Cordelia Duncombe Taylor married Alexander Moffatt who took the name Duncombe (q.v., under Alexander Duncombe ne Moffat).

John Duncombe Taylor 'for many years an inhabitant of Clifton Gloucestershire' died at Sion Hill 'in his native island of Antigua' February 28 1835. The Bristol Record Office holds a will reportedly dated 04/08/1784 which shows him of Clifton with a codicil of 13/12/1816 giving residence as Brislington. Online sources suggest a birthdate of 1774 which makes a will dated 1784 problematic.

Sources

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 486 (Little Sion, Belfast Division) and 487 (Sion Hill).

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=002-8032&cid=-1#-1 [accessed 20/08/2013].

Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 39 (May 1835), p. 558; Bristol Record Office 8032/3, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/1580e2cb-80a3-4851-8ebb-12121989d8d4 [accessed 27/04/2016].

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Spouse

Mary Cooper Vanderhorst

Children

Cordelia

Associated Claims (2)

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1821 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Little Sion [ Antigua ]

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Sion Hill [ Antigua ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Objets

Plate, porcelain painted in enamels and gilt; Coalport Porcelain Factory, England, ca. 1807, inscribed 'Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian / Arabian Nights / John Duncombe Taylor / August 1807', now...

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