Bonjour
Le bidon n'importe qui m'aident.
Je recherche Leoni Taylor. La fille d'un Richard Taylor soumis britannique. Elle est née 1869.Ils les lacet fait dans Calais.

Veuillez excuser mon français. Je suis anglais et j'ai récemment découvert que mon grand père a épousé une dame française et a habité dans Calais.

Leonie Taylor was the daughter of Richard Taylor and Leonie Denis. She had brothers Richard b11 may 1861 and Arthur bpt 14 Sept 1862 in the Calais Methodist church. Leonie Denis was French . Richard had a child with a Ssuannah Elizabeth May before he married Leonie who was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Denis and Julie Fidele Rummel.

Richard was the son of Richard Wheatley Taylor and Elizabeth Smith. I have many more details of this reaches you!

Many thanks for the reply.
Any info you have will be very helpful.
I am a bit confused with the marriages, I have got certificate's stating Leonie Fidel Taylor died in Nottngham 20th September 1871 and Richard remarrying Susannah Elizabeth May at St Andrews Parish Church Nottingham October 7th 1872, they had 2 children Florence born 1877 and William Henry born 1882.
Once again thank you so much, i thought I had hit a brick wall!
Janet

Sorry Janet - don't know what I was thinking - ofcourse Florence was born after her parent's marriage! Can we go back to Joseph Taylor b c 1770 married Anne Wheatley 16.3.1794 at Wirksworth. He was a bobbin net maker and was in Calais by 1826 - makes him a very early entry into the trade there. They had eight children and those who lived mostly made Calais their home.

William b 1834 Calais, died 15 dec 1838 Calais
Anna b March 1837 Calais, died 14 Nov 1857 Calais
Richard b 22 March 1840, Calais
John b 30 August 1842 Calais
Robert b 27 May 1844, Calais
Elizabeth 1848 Calais
James Smith 20 may 1850 calais

Their second son Richard Wheatley Taylor bpt 6 Nov 1804 Wirksworth married Elizabeth Smith at St Mary the Virgin Dover in 1834. Richard died in Calais 17 April 1860 living at rue des Fleurs. Elizabeth Smith had a brother James William also in Calais who pops a up at family events like christenings and weddings and Richard's brother William witnessed evry birth registration in the family

Richard & Elizabeth Taylor lived:
1834 - rue Lafayette
1836 - rue des Quatre Coins
1840 -rue Vauxhall
1842 - rue Lafayette
1843 - rue Lafayette

Richard called himeslf a Lacemaker which in Calais indicated he owned machines. Their second son Richard who married Leonie Denis was born in Calais in 1840 but wasn't baptised until 19 March 1848. He married Leonie Fidele Denis - the daughter of Jean Baptiste Denis & Julie Fidele Rummel. Julie died 28 July 1846 in Calais and somewhere I will have details of her death. Jean Denis was also a lacemaker. I don't know what took them back to Nottingham but Richard's brother Robert who was born in 1844 also went back. Robert married Eugene Boulanger born Calais 1845 and their children were born in Calais also - the last, Charles, was born there 1877 so their return was about then.

I am fascinated by the lacemakers in Calais and there is a huge story about all of their lives and the start of the industry - most certainly the first Joseph was a pioneer - and while your Richard was nominally English - he was really French - having been born there and lived there all his life and marrying a French girl - going back to England can't have been easy!

I descend from a family that came to Australia - have a look at our website - www.angelfire.com/al/aslc/

Gillian

Hi Gillian
I think your amazing! Thanks so much for the info.
You have a fabulous website and I have visted it on numerous occasions hoping to find something out.
Can you point me in the right direction for channel crossings, e.g. what ship they sailed on and where from? as I find this very interesting too,(Im one of those people who need to know everything!)
You've started me off again,searching for more lost relatives!
If you do have any more info' please pass it on - I'ts been a great help.
Once again many thanks & best wishes
Janet

I hope you do not mind, I have read your communications with great interest.

I too have a distant ancestor who apparently went from Nottingham to Calais with the lace. His name was Joseph Samuel Fox. I can find him in 1891 in England but he seems to vanish for the previous decade or so. He does fetch up with a wife and a few kids born in France but i cannot find any records.

His father was as bad. he married a lady called Virginia Hemsley who was described as born in France, british subject but again we can find no records.

What interested me most was the ddress of rue des quatre coins, calais as this same street has passed down through my family (as well as Virginia's "other" name Virginie le Beq for which we have no proof - maybe it was a nickname to do with having a big nose (le beq means the beak!!)

Lesley.

Hello Leonie,

Firstly Virginie Hemsley - she was born in Calais in 1837 and was the daughter of Joseph Hemsley and Marie Josephe Felicite Virginie Langlais ( I kid you not!) Joseph was the son of William Hemsley & Sarah Cameron - MJFV was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Langlais and Josephine Bougard.
And several of Joseph's family came to Australia in 1848.
I will look at the addresses for you tomorrow ( not on my computer)

Now - I only have one Joseph Fox on my records - what was your Joseph's father's name please?