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The National Register of Archives holds further information about manuscripts and historical records on Taylor, Samuel Coleridge- (1875-1912) Composer

Samuel Coleridge Taylor was born on 15 August 1875 in London, the son of Daniel Peter Taylor a doctor from Sierra Leone and Alice Hare (possible Holman).^[1]. Samuel became a brilliant musician and composer. During his career he published 59 compostions and is best known for Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.

He married Jessie Sarah Fleetwood Walmisley in 1899 and they had two children. Taylor died of pneumonia in 1912. ^[2]

Contents 1 Sources in The National Archives 1.1 Census records 2 Further information 3 Notes

[edit] Sources in The National Archives

• COPY 1/451/268 "Photograph of Mr S Coleridge - Taylor, seated, nearly full face." Copyright owner and author of work: Henry John Kempsell, trading as French & Co, 1 Railway Terrace, Wallington, Surrey. Form Completed 16 July 1901. Registration stamp: 16 July 1901. 1901 July 16
• IR 59/371 COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel 1912-1913; death duty accounts
• PREM 5/2 Mrs Coleridge Taylor 1912-1959; file relating to payments to his widow from the Civil List
• T 1/11530 Minute. Grant of Civil List pension to the widow of S. Coleridge-Taylor, musician; W.H.J. Weale, art historian; Miss Clementina Black, investigator of the conditions of women's industrial employment; the daughters of H.G. Hine, water-colourist; William Canton, artist. 1913

[edit] Census records

1881 census, Samuel is staying with his mother and grandparents at 67 Waddon New Road (RG 11/810, fo 81, p 45, schedule 67)

Name	Relationship to head	Status	Age	Occupation	Where born
Benjamin Holman	Head	Married	67	Farrier	Sandwich, Kent
Sarah Holman	Wife	Married	65		Hode, Kent
Alice Taylor	Daughter	Married	24		Dover, Kent
Coleridge Taylor	Grandson		5		London, Middlesex

1891 census - Alice has remarried and is living with her new family at her parents old house 67 Waddon New Road, Croydon (RG 12/588, folio 76, p28, schedule 159)

Name	Relationship to head	Status	Age	Occupation	Where born
George Evans	Head	married	54	Store Keeper on Railway	Newmarket
Alice Evans	Wife	Married	33	Dover Kent
Coleridge Taylor	Stepson	Single	15	Student at Royal College of Music	London Middlesex
Alice Evans	Daughter		5		Croydon Surrey
Victor Evans	Son		7 months		Croydon Surrey

1901 census, family are living at 30 Dagnall Park, Croydon (RG 13/645, fo 151, p19 schedule: 104)

Name	Relationship to head	Status	Age	Occupation	Where born
Samuel C Taylor	Head	Married	26	Composer of Music	London
Jessie Taylor	Wife	married	31		Kent, Bromley
Hiawatha Taylor	son		6 months		Surrey, Croydon
Margaret Evans	servant	single	21	General servant domestic	London

1911 census living at Aldwich, St Leonards Road, Croydon (RG 14/3308)

Name	Relationship to head	Age	Marital Status	Occupation	Where born
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor	Head	35	married	musical composer	London
Jessie S F Coleridge-Taylor	Wife	41	Married, 11 years (2 children born & living)		Bromley in Kent
Hiawatha Bryan Coleridge-Taylor	Son	10	Single	School	South Norwood SE
Gwendolen Coleridge-Taylor	Daughter	8	Single	School	South Norwood SE
Florence Sarah Tomsett	Servant	15	Single	General Servant (Domestic)	Mitcham Surrey

[edit] Further information

• Brief biography and list of works on the African Heritage in Classical Music website

[edit] Notes

1. ↑ In the 1871 census Daniel Taylor is recorded as a lodger at Catherine Jones' house 22 Cecil Street (St Clement Danes, Registration District): Daniel PH Taylor, unmarried, aged 22, Medical Student, born Freetown Sierra Leone (British Subject), RG 10/365, folio 69, p7, schedule 27
2. ↑ Freebmd contains information on his marriage and family:
   • Birth: Sept 1875, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Holborn 1b 641
   • Marriage: Dec 1899, between Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Jessie Sarah F Walmisley, Croydon 2a 640
   • Birth: Dec 1900, Hiawatha Bryan C Taylor, Croydon 2a 250
   • Birth: June 1903, Gwendolen COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Croydon 2a 292
   • Death: Sep 1912, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, aged 37, Croydon 2a 266