Settler of township lots: Lots 19 & 20, Conc. 4, Stanhope

Location:  Map point is the approximate location within this irregular, waterfront Lot 20, Conc. 4 on Beech Lake running west and south beside McPhail Road.

Land acquisition: 

• 1861 Lands Liable to Taxation: Township of Stanhope Patent Register - 83 & 37 acres to Eliza Helvenwood; 1875 registered to William Nelson Taylor.
• 1872 These 83 + 37 acre lots were registered as a Free Grant through the Free Grant and Homestead Act of 1868 under the locatee name William N Taylor
• 1875 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Images 242 & 246).

Other land: Lot 22, Conc. 5, Stanhope: 

Dates of residency: 

• 1870 Peterborough County Directory, Stanhope: Nelson Taylor, part Lot 19, Conc. 4
• 1881 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Nelson & Jane Taylor with 7 children
• 1893 Stanhope Directory: W N Taylor, Maple Lake Lot 23, Conc. 5
• 1883 Stanhope Voters List: William N Taylor, owner, Lots 19 & 20, Conc. 4
• 1890 Stanhope Voters List: Wm N Taylor, tenant, Lot 21, Conc. 2 (home of his son, William Taylor)
• 1895 Death: Stanhope
• 1911 Census of Canada, Stanhope: Enumerated as Jane S Richards, widowed.

Interesting facts:

John Billings brick work included the Will Taylor house on the north road at Beech Lake. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg.322

Preceding landowner: The Crown

Succeeding landowner:

• 1896 William Taylor (William Nelson's son b. 1860) was enumerated at these lots on the 1901 and 1911 census was listed on the 1901 Stanhope Voters List at this lot and at Lots 19 & 20, Conc. 4 and Lot 22, Conc. 3 on the 1911 Stanhope Voters List.
• 1926 William Hector Taylor (grandson b. 1899)

Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree

• William Nelson Taylor, b. Abt 1831, England  d. 08 Mar 1895, Stanhope (Age ~ 64 years)
• Sophia Jane Dawson, b. 26 Aug 1837,  England d. 10 Oct 1915, Stanhope (Age 78 years). Buried: St. Peter's Cemetery
  Parents:
  • Peter Dawson, b. 15 Jun 1800, England d. 04 Sep 1873, Stanhope, (Age 73 years)
  • Jane Benson, b. 15 Aug 1815, England d. 01 Feb 1892, Stanhope, (Age 76 years)
  Husband 2: Thomas Richards, b. 24 Dec 1838, Scotland Married 12 Jul 1899  Dysart
• Children with Sophia Dawson:
  1. Dorothea Taylor, b. 18 Nov 1855, Ontario, d. 01 Mar 1948, Texas, (Age 92 years)
  2. Jane Taylor, b. Abt 1857, England 
  3. Elizabeth Emma Taylor, b. Nov 1858, Ontario, d. 1927, Minnesota, (Age ~ 68 years)
  4. William Taylor, b. 18 Aug 1860, Cavan, Durham, Ontario, d. 03 Jul 1945, Stanhope, (Age 84 years)
  5. Peter Dawson Taylor, b. 31 May 1863, Ontario,  d. 28 Dec 1931, Maple Lake, (Age 68 years) COD: Chronic nephritis. Buried: Maple Lake
  6. Miriam Frances Jeannette Taylor, b. Abt 1866, Ontario, d. 27 Feb 1947, Minnesota, (Age ~ 81 years)
  7. Martha Harriet Taylor, b. Abt 1869, Stanhope, d. 17 Mar 1934, Penticton, BC (Age ~ 65 years)  
  8. Sarah Ida Taylor, b. 21 Jul 1870, Stanhope
  9. Margaret Agnes Taylor, b. 05 Jun 1872, Stanhope, d. 15 Dec 1960, (Age 88 years)
  10. Isabella Taylor, b. 4 Mar 1877, Stanhope, d. 26 Apr 1947, Fort William, Thunder Bay, (Age 70 years)
  11. Hector Taylor, b. 20 Feb 1882, Stanhope