Person Sheet


Name Sophia TAYLOR, 6334
Birth 1 10 1831, Belgaum, Bombay Presidency
Death 7 3 1922, 106 Lexham Gardens Kensington Age: 90
Death Memo IoD 1Q1922 Kensington 1a204
Father Rev Joseph TAYLOR, 6320 (1791-1859)
Mother Emilia Antoinette VAN SOMEREN, 6321 (1796-1855)
Spouses:
1 Maj Frederick FANNING, 6335
Birth 16 8 1821, Finchley
Christen 24 10 1821, St Mary Finchley
Christen Memo #475
Death 16 2 1905, 106 Lexham Gardens Kensington Age: 83
Death Memo IoD 1Q1905 Kensington 1a142
Occupation 1881: Australian merchant. 1891: retired Major General (wrong - only a Major). 1901: Maj 9th Bengal Native Infantry.
Father William FANNING, 6290 (1785-1859)
Mother Sophia Cecilia HARLEY, 6291 (1795-1884)
Marriage 15 5 1850, Belgaum
Children: Frederick (Died as Child), 6694 (1851-1854)
William Joseph, 6271 (1852-1934)
Sophia (Died as Infant), 6734 (1854-1855)
Fanny Eliza (No children), 6464 (1855-1947)
Edward (Died as Child), 6695 (1859-1865)
Francis Grant, 6717 (1861-1942)
Walter Harley, 6718 (1864-1907)
Notes for Sophia TAYLOR
Vansom.ged201208: in the 1851 census Sophia is living with her parents, Rev Joseph Taylor & Emilia Antoinette Van Someren Taylor at Belgaum. She is listed as 19 years old & the wife of Lt. Fanning, but he is not with the Taylor family in Belgaum.
Ancestry141208: census1891, 1901, IoD aged90. AncestryProbate020311: DandPofD.
Census
Census1891 34/152/28: aged59, wife at 106 Lexham Gardens Kensington, PofB Belgaum. Census1901 38/53/13: aged69, wife at 106 Lexham Gardens Kensington, PofB India.
Census Notes for Frederick (Spouse 1)
Census1881 822/128/29: aged59, mar, father at Lullington Road Penge, occ, PofB Finchley. Census1891 34/152/28: aged69, mar, hd at 106 Lexham Gardens Kensington, occ, PofB Finchley. Census1901 38/53/13: aged79, mar, hd at 106 Lexham Gardens Kensington, occ, PofB Co Kerry.
Misc. Notes
Liz Wilde (co-author of vansom.ged) says that he was only a "Major", "accidentally promoted in one of the censuses". Vansom.ged201208: fellow officer of Gregor Grant, who married Sophia's sister Eliza in 1852.
BRT: YofB. Ancestry141208: census1891, 1901, IoD aged83. Ancestry301208: census1881. AncestryLBB200310: ChrR DandPofB. Probate for bro William Fanning (6629): res1887. Mother's ProbateRecord: res1884. AncestryProbate120514: DandPofD.
Notes for Frederick & Sophia (Family)
BLG: DandPofM.
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