Wordless Wednesday - The Taylors, Essex County, Ontario

Here is a photo of my 3rd great-grandmother, Jean Taylor McDowell's nieces, Mary Jane and Florence Bell Taylor. The photo was taken about 1890, Florence was married in 1891 at the age of 21 to Orin Ellis. Mary Jane Taylor married Robert Ellis.
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Robert William Ellis & Mary Jane Taylor Ellis
and children ca. 1900

Their parents were John Taylor and Isabelle Gilboe.





The town of Essex was known as "Essex Centre" in it's early years

Photos courtesy of ClanTaylor at Ancestry.com.