The Taylor family arrived in Perth in September 1891 and John started business as a boarding-house keeper. Two years later he applied successfully for a publican’s licence and took up management of the Cannington Hotel. A newspaper advertisement proudly set […]
Writing about her experiences onboard the migrant ship Tartar, Janet Millett stated that whenever the ship encountered really bad weather her husband would go to the married persons’ quarters where he would look after the women and children, presumably to reassure […]
Welcome to the Taylor Family History Site. This site contains information about the ancestors of the Taylor family of Perth, Western Australia. It has a companion site – Our Genealogy – which contains detailed genealogical information about the Taylors. This blog […]
John Skinner Prout (1805-1876) was an artist who came to Australia in the 1840s. He described his voyage out to Australia in an article in The Illustrated London News, with sketches of life on board ship. Emigrants to the Swan River Colony […]
Laurence Sinclair was the youngest of the three Sinclair brothers who came to Western Australia from Shetland. He was born in Skelberry, Dunrossness, on the 30th of January 1831. It’s not known precisely when he arrived but it must have […]
When John Taylor was running the Albany Hotel he had a brush with the police who accused him of harbouring deserters from the Albany garrison. The soldiers had been celebrating New Year’s Eve in1894 and a few decided to remain […]
John Charles Playle was from Essex and arrived in Western Australia in 1842, placing him among the pioneers of the Swan River Colony. John was born in the village of Stebbing in 1821, one of the five children of John […]
The featured image is Canal Street, Wolverhampton, taken in the 19th century. One of the houses in this street was the home of the Turner family and the birthplace of Jane Turner, the future Mrs Jane ‘Jenny’ Taylor. Jane’s father […]
John Robert Hallam senior died accidentally at his home in North Melbourne in 1901. Because it was a sudden death an inquest had to be held. It revealed a life of heavy drinking that ultimately led to his death from suffocation […]
When Thomas Sinclair brought his family to Western Australia on the Tartar in 1863 he kept a diary of the voyage. The original is in the Esperance Museum and a copy is also held in the Shetland Museum. It is a fascinating […]
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