A. E. TAYLOR

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A. E. Taylor cannot be positively identified.

A. E. Taylor died in the First World War and is listed on the stone plaque in the porch of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry.

Notes

The 1911 census shows a family called Taylor in a house in Headington Quarry at Cooper’s Hill, and their son, Arthur E. Taylor (13), who was born in Quarry, is “at school part-time only on account of sickness”. An Arthur Ernest Taylor’s birth was registered in the Headington Registration District in the 2nd quarter of 1898, but he is very likely to be the Arthur E. Taylor who died at the age of 22 in the Headington Registration District (death registered in third quarter of 1920). This could still have counted as a First World War death: but none of the war casualties called A. Taylor on the CWGC site who came back home and died in 1920 matches his details.
Taylor is the commonest name in Headington at the time, and in 1911 there was an Arthur Taylor (15) who was born in Headington living in St Andrew’s Road in Old Headington; an Albert Taylor (14) who was born in Shipton-on-Cherwell living in Westbourne Terrace; and an Alexander Charles Taylor (27), born in Headington, living at Coronation Cottage, Titup.
No boy surnamed Taylor with the initials A.E. was baptised at St Andrew’s or Holy Trinity Church in the relevant timespan.
No man called A. E. Taylor married a Quarry girl at Holy Trinity church in the relevant timespan (nearest was John Alfred Taylor, a Private in the OBLI).