Looking at DNA results, I just discovered a great, great, grandfather named William Taylor. There is no link to Liz Taylor as yet.
Jon
https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=n4554rbw&id=I62347
Name: Crippen Taylor
- Sex: M
- Birth: LAND B 1785
- Death: 15-DEC-1826 in Guilford, Accomack Co., Va.
- Burial: TAYLOR PLOT (I) Accomack Co., Va.
- Event: ROBERT L. MEARS awmiles-519
- Reference Number: w-1197 UA-260
Father: James Taylor b: C. 1640
Mother: Elizabeth Benson Bentson b: C. 1640
Marriage 1 ??????
Children
- Elizabeth Taylor b: C. 1725
- Shadrack Taylor
- Susanna Taylor
- Sarah Taylor
- Mary Taylor
- Esther Taylor
- Comfort Taylor
- Jacob Taylor b: C. 1738 in Accomack Co., Va.
- Teackle Taylor
- James Taylor
Cazalet, who had a passion for fine art, became a close friend of American art gallery owners Francis Taylor and his wife Sara, parents of Elizabeth, after they had moved from the U.S. to London in 1936.[1] Cazalet let the Taylor family, who were also Christian Scientists, spend their weekends in a separate 16th century cottage on his estate in Kent.[1] He wanted them to think of England as their new home.[22]:13
He gave 4-year-old Elizabeth a horse named Betty as a gift, which she would ride bareback throughout the property.[1] The Taylors asked him to be her godfather, after which he became an important influence during her early life.[1] At one time while Elizabeth suffered the first of many near-fatal illnesses, Elizabeth begged her mother to “please call Victor and ask him to come and sit with me.” Cazalet then drove ninety miles through thick fog to be at her side.[24] When he arrived, recalled her mother, “Victor sat on the bed and held Elizabeth in his arms and talked to her about God,” and soon after the fever had broken.[22]:14
At a lunch with Churchill in April 1939, Cazalet learned that a war was coming, and was permitted by Churchill to inform others.[22]:24 Cazalet, concerned for the Taylor family’s safety, urged Francis to close his art gallery as soon as possible and return with his family to America. Because of the time needed to vacate the gallery, he suggested that Sara and his children should be sent back alone where Francis could later join them. They took his advice and eventually ended up in Los Angeles where he established a new gallery.[1]
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