Sidney Alfred Parsons and his Ancestors

Rosanna Taylor née Bond

Rosanna Bond and her husband John Taylor were the parents of Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Parsons of Marston Magna. Edward Parsons was a grandfather of Sidney Parsons.

Rosanna was born in the village of High Ham in Somerset and baptised there on the 5th of May 1775. It was a late baptism — the vicar noted that she was two years old. Her father, John Bond, was a carpenter who had also been born in High Ham as had her mother Anne (née Read) and Roasanna was the youngest of their four children. Rosanna’s parents both died in 1782 before she was ten years old.

When she was 25 years old Rosanna was living in Yeovil and there she married John Taylor in St. John’s church on the 13th of January 1799. John had also been born in High Ham, and their marriage banns had been posted there, but when he married Rosanna he was living and working in Stoke sub Hamden which is a few miles to the west of Yeovil. After marrying they settled in Marston Magna, which is about five miles north of Yeovil, and lived there for the rest of their lives. John was a baker.

John and Rosanna had three daughters and two sons but Rosanna died in 1817 when she was only about 44 years old. She was buried in Marston Magna on the 8th of June of that year. Her oldest child, Mary, was only about fourteen years old and her youngest, Sarah, was not yet five.

John lived for another fourteen years, just long enough to see his daughter Elizabeth married to Edward Parsons. Edward’s father was the richest farmer in the village but he had fallen out of favour with his father Charles and the wedding was probably not the lavish affair which might have been expected.

Rosanna’s husband John Taylor was buried in Marston Magna in April 1832.

John and Rosanna Taylor’s children



John and Rosanna Taylor’s daughter Elizabeth was baptised on the 15th of April 1810. She married Edward Parsons in 1831. Several of their children moved to Southampton among whom was their son John who became Sidney Parsons father. Elizabeth and Edward lived for a while in Bruton in Somerset but spent most of their lives in Marston Magna. She died there on the 29th of December 1874.

Information about their other children can be found on her husband John Taylor’s web page.

Rosanna Taylor née Bond’s ancestors


Parents
Father — John Bond, who was a carpenter from High Ham in Somerset.
Mother — Anne Read, who also came from High Ham.

Grandparents
Grandfather — John Bond, who was born in High Ham during the reign of King William III.
Grandmother — Joan Cozens who also came from High Ham and married John in April 1726.

Grandfather — James Read, who was baptised in High Ham but whose father had come from Drayton, a neighbouring parish.
Grandmother — Christabel Cooksley who married James when they were both only about 17 years old.

Great-grandparents
Great-grandfather — John Bond, who lived in High Ham.
Great-grandmother — Joan, John’s wife.

Great-grandfather — unknown
Great-grandmother — unknown

Great-grandfather — William Read, who came from Drayton in Somerset but moved to High Ham.
Great-grandmother — Margaret, William’s wife.

Great-grandfather — Thomas Cooksley.
Great-grandmother — Alice (or Alicia) Tinney, who married Thomas in High Ham in the year 1687.



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Mike can be contacted at parsonspublic@gmail.com

The information in these web pages comes from a number of sources including: Hampshire County Records Office, Somerset Heritage Centre; Dorset County Records Office; Southampton City Archives; the General Register Office; several on-line newspaper archives; several on-line transcriptions of Parish Register Entries; and several on-line indexes of births, marriages and deaths. The research has also been guided at times by the published work of others, both on-line and in the form of printed books, and by information from personal correspondence with other researchers, for all of which thanks are given. However, all of the information in these web pages has been independently verified by the author from original sources, facimile copies, or, in the case of a few parish register entries, transcriptions published by on-line genealogy sites. The author is aware that some other researchers have in some cases drawn different conclusions and have published information which is at variance from that shown in these web pages.