Susan Taylor
(1833-1916)

Susan Taylor (later Susan Steadman, and Susan Earith) was the seventh of the nine child of Isaac Taylor, and his wife Sarah Gooby of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

A young Susan appears with her parents and some of her siblings on the 1841 census at Potter's Lane, Ely.

By 1852, and yet to marry, she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter named Sabina Steadman Taylor - a middle name that left a clue to the identity of the child's father.

Four years later, she married the father - William Crow Steadman who was noted as a "Waterman of Babylon" (the small island facing Waterside) in Ely. The couple had no further known children.

William died somewhere between his marriage to Susan in 1856, and the 1871 census, by which time Susan is noted as a widow and servant, and she is living with a Richard Earith in Ely. Richard would become her second husband the following summer.

Susan out-lived both husbands, and her daughter, and was buried in Ely in the January of 1917.

Life Events

Born

• 1833 at Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Baptised

• 14th September 1833 at Holy Trinity Church, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Married

• William Crow Steadman (1833-18??) on 4th February 1856, at Holy Trinity Church, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• Richard Earith (1844-1905) on 1st June 1872 at The Wesleyan Chapel, Chapel Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Children

• Sabina Steadman Taylor (1852-1916) married George Cross (1850-1898).

Census and Residence

• 1841: 8yrs, Potter's Lane, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1851: 17yrs, Potter's Lane, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1861: Ely census destroyed.
• 1871: 35yrs, Babylon, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1881: 45yrs, St. John's Place, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1891: 59yrs, St. John's Place, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1901: 66yrs, 6 Mill Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1911: 77yrs, St. Mary's Almshouses, St. Mary's Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Employment

• 1851: Agricultural Labourer
• 1871: Servant at the house of Richard Earith (Agricultural Labourer)

Death

• December 1916 at St. Mary's Almshouses, St. Mary's Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, aged 83 years.

Burial

• 2nd January 1917 in grave F1271 at Ely City Cemetery, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.