Robert Howard TAYLOR
Date of Birth:
25 Oct 1874
Date of Death:
1 May 1947
Robert was born at Middlesx in England.
He married Maud Richards (in 1879) in 1898.
The Richards family had emigrated to NZ in 1895.
They had two sons & five daughters. The first son died in infancy. The other son lived under the surname Howard-Taylor.
Robert started out as a clerk in Masterton. He them moved to Wellington as a masseur. By 1905 he was in Levin as a photographer, then Wellington before moving to Dunedin as a masseur, then Upper Hutt as a soldier, then Hastings as a masseur & then back to Lower Hutt to retire.
One son-in-law, Walter Spencer, served in WW1 & WW2. Two son-in-laws, James Hobson (MBE) & Percy Brant along with son William, served in WW2.
Relatives mentioned in profile:
Robert Howard Taylor, Robert Samuel Taylor, Lydia Howard, Maud Grace Richards, William Frederick Richards, Elizabeth Aston, Robert Howard Taylor (Jnr), Lydia Maud Taylor, Frederick George Goss, Sylvia Elizabeth Jean Taylor, Walter Thomas Spencer, James Edward Hobson (MBE), Elsie Gwyndolyn Howard-Taylor, Ernest James Mitchell, Beryl Grace Taylor, Percy Anthony Matthews (Peter) Brant, John Edward Richards, Chrissie May Wilson, William Aston Howard-Taylor, Ada Doriene (Rennie) Dyke, Joyce Eileen Howard-Taylor, Ethel Joan Howard-Taylor, Hubert Severn Arnott.