THE STOEY OF MY LIFE
CHAPTER I
1808-24
I was born in Slater Street, Liverpool, on the 25th day of September 1808. My father, Mr. Philip Meadows Taylor, was the only surviving son of the Rev. Philip Taylor, of Old Court, Harold's Cross, in the county of Dublin.1 My mother was the youngest daughter of Bertram Mitford, Esq., of Mitford Castle, in the coimty of Northumberland, one of the most ancient Saxon families of England, which still flourishes, from its origin, beyond the Conquest, to the
1 This useful pedigree has been kindly extracted for me by the Reverend Canon Taylor, vicar of St. Just in Penwith, from the Familiae Mint/rum Gentium, page 1104, published by the Harleian Society.
John Taylor, D.B., = Bliz. Jenkins, of Norwich, I
d. 1761.
Kichard Taylor = Margaret Meadows, of Norwich, I
merchant, d. 1762.
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Pliilip Taylor=Anna Maria, John Taylor =Susanna, dau. of
of Dublin, | dau. of Isaac Weld, of Norwich, minister of i D.D. merchant,
religion, I d. 1826.
b. 1747, d. 1831.
Joim Coolce.
PhUipMeadows = Dec. 1807, Jane Sarah=Jolm Austin, Susan = Henry Bceve,
Taylor. Honora, dau. of author of M.D.
Bertram Mitford, Jurisprudence.
I of Mitford Castle, Go. Northumberland.
Philip Meadows Taylor, b. 25th Sept. 1808, d. 13th May 1876.
