Author: Elfe, Anne
Biography:
ELFE, Anne, later TAYLER (1785-1862: findmypast.co.uk)
She was baptised on 7 July 1785 at St. Mary, Monmouth, the daughter of William Elfe (1761-1833), a surgeon, and his wife Sophia Warren (1769-1839). Her Lays of Caruth (1808) and Original Poems (1809) contain poems about Welsh topography and history. She married Samuel Tayler, a brush maker, on 5 Aug. 1811. Her father died on 3 Sept. 1833 at their house in Wilson Terrace, Bristol, aged 74. A little later they moved to 21 Broadmead Street, where her husband died on 27 Aug. 1849. (Her mother died at her daughter Sophia Row’s house in Torrington, Devon, in 1839.) She continued to run the business for a while but by 1861 she was a lodger at 13 Philadelphia Street where she died on 3 Jan. 1862. Their son William Elfe Tayler wrote various theological works, including Popery: its Character and its Crimes (1847). (findmypast.co.uk 26 Jul. 2020; Monthly Magazine Sept. 1811, 199; Mathews Bristol Directories; Gloucestershire Chronicle 7 Sept. 1833; Western Times 23 Feb. 1839; Bristol Times 8 Sept. 1849) AA