Swan Taylor
ID # 9509, (1889-1964)
| Father | John Taylor (1843-) |
| Mother | Janet Dryden (1851-) |
| Baptism | Swan Taylor was baptized on 2 April 1889 at North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Co.. |
| Baptism | He was baptized on 3 July 1889 at North Dumfries Twp. |
| Marriage | He married Bessie Elliott on 6 June 1918 at Galt, Waterloo Co.. Mrge reg. 018436-18 Galt, Waterloo Co. Swan Taylor, 29, bachelor, farmer, Methodist. Born and residing North Dumfries. Parents John Taylor and Janet Dryden. Bessie Elliott, 29, spinster, Methodist. Born Newfoundland, residing Galt. Parents Joseph Elliott and Eliza Croucher. Witnesses Edwin Taylor, RR 4, Galt, and Ettie Elliott, Galt. At Galt on 6 June, 1918, by G. K. Bradshaw, Methodist. Rev. Bradshaw was the minister at Ainslie Street Methodist Church from 1917 to 1921. This church was later known as Wesley United Church. |
| Death | He died on 23 July 1964 at age 75. |
| Burial | He was buried at Sec. 5, Mountview Cemetery, Galt, Ontario. |
| Note | Birth reg. 036518-89 North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Co. Swan Taylor born 2nd April, 1889. Parents John Taylor, farmer, and Janet Dryden. Physician Dr. Lovett. Informant John Taylor, North Dumfries. Images of the pages of Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms are provided by Bower-McBurney Genealogy (see: https://bowergenealogy.ca/resources/methodist/), an excellent resource. Volume 4's page 326 lists the baptism of Swan Taylor by Rev. Alfred Cunningham of the Ainslie Street Methodist Church. Rev. Cunningham was minister at Ainslie from 1888 to 1891, and, looking over his work, here and elsewhere, he was quite assiduous about turning in the record of his baptisms to the Methodist Church's central records. This was something that not all clergy were interested in doing. The result of this is that, in a given family, the baptisms of some children appear while that of others do not. It seems safe to say that almost all children of a given family were indeed baptized. While most baptisms listed on this page show them to have been held in Galt, Swan's is shown as being done in North Dumfries. This was probably a home baptism. The parents are shown as residing in North Dumfries and that, likewise, Swan was born and baptized there. His birth is shown as being on April 2, 1889, and his baptism was held on July 3, 1889. Swan's baptism name is indexed as 'Swane', but this appears the result of his name being written with an ending flourish. The only other comment here is that in 1889, July 3 was a Wednesday, so, yes, it does appear that Swan's baptism was done at the Taylor home as opposed to a church ceremony. As mentioned elsewhere in this tree, Swan's older sister Mary married William Hume Milroy. The William Milroy farm and the Swan Taylor farm backed on each other. The path between the two farms might have gone through or skirted a couple of hardwoods and at least one glacial sinkhole. Mary and William had at least three sons, and, betimes, one of them might head back to the Swan Taylor farm of an early morn to help Uncle Swan with chores. So the family story goes, one early morning Harvie Milroy was headed back along the well known path to Uncle Swan's, but it was quite dark and he got hit by a skunk. His coveralls were well sprayed and so he headed back and stood in the garden and called to an open upstairs window where his mother was doing chores. She threw down a clean pair of coveralls and told him to leave the malodorous ones in the garden. When her chores were done, she went down and dug a hole and buried the smelly coveralls. A week later, she dug them up, laundered them, and they were fine. The gist of the story is that the soil is said to have taken away the nasty odour. Gardens can be useful, but...skunk remover? Who knew? Well, Harv's mother sure did. |
| Last Edited | 16 Dec 2025 |