Margaret Weir Tayler

Born 16/02/1810 and baptised 02/04/1810 at Keynsham estate (then in St Elizabeth), second daughter of Thomas Weir Tayler (owner of Auchenbeddie estate, then in St Elizabeth) and Sarah Church (daughter of Mr Henry Church and an enslaved woman named Elizabeth Lloyd and manumitted as an infant).

At some point between June 1817 and June 1820, Sarah Church bought six enslaved people from Thomas Weir Tayler, who had been in possession of them as guardian and trustee of Elizabeth Tayler and Margaret Tayler. Sarah registered the enslaved people as co-owner with her children William Mortimer Tayler, Henry Church Tayler, Elizabeth Mortimer Tayler, Margaret Weir Tayler, George Tayler, Helen Tayler, Ann Maitland Tayler and Sarah Tayler. She signed the register herself. By 1832, four more boys had been born and Sarah Church registered ownership of ten enslaved people as owner and guardian.

With her mother and seven siblings, Margaret Weir Tayler inherited Auchenbeddie on the death of her father c. 1829.

See estate information for http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/19695.

Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

Details from the parish records and slave registers are available at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/r/Reht.htm.

We are grateful to Misha Ewen for her assistance with compiling this entry.