Taylor, Margaret ¹

  Events:

• Marriage. ¹ I visited the Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society with the express purpose of finding out more information on what we then thought was our earliest Anderson ancestor, namely William Anderson of Aberdeen. My first approach was to search the Society records for the 5 children whose birth dates had been listed in a family Bible handed down from a descendant, William Anderson of Griquatown, as we now refer to him. Of the five children, 3 were identified in the records for the parish of Newhills by the closeness of the stated baptismal dates after the afore-mentioned birth dates, but in addition they were all cited by the same father, George, and the name Wagley, it being assumed that the latter was the name of the local village within the parish of Newhills.However, one of the 3 records recorded Margaret Taylor, as the spouse, and the child found was also named Margaret, and was the first named child in the Bible record.So this finding is the first evidence, not only of the correct name of the father but also of the mother.
See also the events reported for George Anderson.

Margaret married George Anderson on an unknown date in Scotland. (George Anderson was born Abt 1697(?) in Scotland ¹ and died in Scotland.)