Ann Wicks
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SPOUSE: GEORGE EDWARD GROVE
TAYLOR
Marriage: February
1830
Place: England
SPOUSE: (2)WILLIAM
BLACK m. 10 July 1856
Birth Date:
7 November 1800
Birth Place: Tetbury, Glouchester, England
Death Date:
26 March 1896
Burial: Salt
Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
CHILDREN
Joseph
Edward Taylor
Margaret Ann Taylor
Martha Taylor
Maria Taylor |
1830-1913
1841-1926
1843-1924
1845-1901 |
OCCUPATION(S):
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FAMILY
Father: JOHN
SOMMERSET WICKS
Mother: MARGARET
TROTMAN
SIBLINGS
Charlotte Wicks
Ann
Wicks
Mary Wicks
Maragret Wicks
Eliza Wicks
Research Ideas
Who is William Black? Why is there
no mention of him in her history? |
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Ye Olde Taylor Family: Ann Wicks Taylor
(Pg. 12, Unknown author)
Ann Wicks,
daughter of John Sommerset Wicks and Margaret Trotman Wicks was
born November 7, 1800 in Tetbury, Gloucester County, England.
Ann's father
was a barber by trade, and when he died, leaving his wife, who
was a professional hairdresser, and five daughters, the wife
carried on the business in order to raise the girls.
Ann was a very
beautiful girl and took up nursing to help with the living. As
a girl she worked among the middle class people. She resented
the class distinction, so prevalent throughout England, and especially
the custom of saying, "Yes, your majesty," and "No,
your Majesty," etc. She felt that no one should be placed
above another.
She was thirty
years of age when she married George Edward Grove Taylor, who
was ten years younger than she. Ann was dark complexioned and
was thought by her husband to be the most beautiful woman in
all of England. George was a tailor by trade.
Four children were
born to them, as son, Joseph Edward and three daughters, Margaret
Ann, Maria and Martha.
One day two missionaries
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came into
his shop and talked to him for a long time about the principles
of the Gospel. George and Ann were converted and were baptized
on July 27, 1848. Their son, Joseph, was baptized in August,
and the girls when they became eight years of age.
George was called to
preside over the branch of the church where the family resided.
Although it was necessary for them to walk eight miles to services,
they never missed a meeting.
In 1851 he [George]
married Jane Baxter in polygamy, against Ann's wishes, and soon
therafter, he and Ann separated.
Ann was the only member
of her family to join the church. Her mother had become well
to do financially and offered to keep Ann and he daughters in
comfort the rest of their lives if they would but give up their
religion, but she refused. They preferred to face the inevitable
hardships incidental to gathering with the Saints in Zion where
they could be free to worship as they pleased. Consequently,
Ann and her two daughters, Martha and Maria, set sail for America
in 1854 1. They were on the ocean 10 weeks and three days.
Their ship lost its course and drifted onto an island which delayed
them 2.
They stayed in St. Louis,
Missouri for a year 3in order to work to help raise funds for their trek
west across the plains. In 1855 they started for Utah in an ox-cart
company. Ann's health was very poor so she was permitted to ride,
but the girls walked all the way.
Upon their arrival in the
Salt Lake Valley, Ann made her home with ther son, Joseph, who
had previously come to Salt Lake City, and his wife, Louise Rebecca
Capener. She did nursing for a living and the girls worked in
homes wherever they could find employment.
She was very refined and
cultured, well educated and always a perfect lady, never using
any slang. She greatly enjoyed the freedom of America and the
privilege of living in Zion. She was a woman of remarkable mental
and physical vigor, dominated by a deep religious enthusiasm.
She died in Salt Lake City
on March 26, 1896 and was buried there. When I was her she was
91 years old, very erect and with very few wrinkles. Her eyesight
and hearing had failed, but she was very cheerful and kind.
Footnotes
1 Sailed
on "Germanicus" which left Liverpool 4 Apr. 1854 and
arrived at New Orleans 12 June 1854 (for a day to day description
see Journal of William Morrison and Diary of Thomas Featherstone,
Mormon Immigration Index)
2 From
the Millenial Star, Vol XVI: "the vessel had
a rather lengthy voyage, in consequence of which she had to put
in at St. George's on the Grand Caicos [Caymans] (and island
nothe of Doninica) where she stayed two days and took in eight
days' supply of water. We also had to stop at Tortugas (near
Key West, off Florida) for a further supply on the thirtieth
of May.
3 From
the Millenial Star, Vol XVI: "Within two hours
of landing at New Orleans, President Cook had made arrangements
with the captain of the steamboat, "Uncle Sam" to take
the company to St.Louis for three dollars and fifty-cents each,
luggage free; those under fourteen years of age half price. The
next day, (the thirteenth) the saints continued the journey from
New Orleans to St. Louis where some of them remained until next
season."
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REFERENCES:
Ye Olde Taylor Family
Compiled by Florette McGuire and
Darrell E. Smith [Privately published, 1966.]
RESEARCH:
-Tetbury Parish Records for christening.
-Map of Gloucester
-Branch/Mission records for baptisms and George's Presidency
-Where was church that they had to walk 8 miles? (immigration
says they were from Sheffield)
-How does one marry in polygamy in England? Was it a civil mg?
- What happened to the rest of Ann's family who stayed in England?
What happened to her mother's wealth at her death? was Ann in
her mother's will?
-How did Ann's mother become so well todo? |
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