John Taylor of Old Scone

[SarahND]

Mothers' names are not recorded until 1781.

That explains the births I found above.

It looks as though we're out of luck finding any non-Church of Scotland records for the time of his birth, however.

Best wishes,
Sarah

[Taylorofsa]

Today is Remembrance Day in SA. We came back last week from a tour to the Western, Eastern And Northern Cape enjoying the spring flowers. Amongst others we also visit Cradock, the place where John Taylor was minister for the LMS and later of the Dutch Reform Church 1818 to 1860. It was in this church records that we found his birthdate and a lot of other very interesting information. Unfortunately his family history was never quoted.

[Taylorofsa]

It is December 2013. We, the Taylors in SA wish you all a pleasant and God-blessed Christmas.
Hope that the new year will reveal answers to some of our questions.

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John Taylor
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Ds. John Taylor.
Ds. John Taylor (Scone, county Perth, Scotland , in 1778 - Cradock , 21 May 1860 ) was the first pastor of the church NG Beaufort West and then 36 years pastor of the church NG Cradock until his death.
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1 Background
2 In Beaufort
3 Church Cradock and death
4 Sources
Background [ edit ]

Taylor is trained in Scotland as pastor of the Presbyterian Church, but it later call to work among the natives of South Africa as a missionary of the London Missionary Society to come to work. So in October 1816 he was in the company of the later famous Robert Moffat and three other ministers, the Rev.. John Evans (from 1818 to 1823 Taylor's predecessor and first minister of the NG Church Cradock ), Kitchingman and Brownlee, with the ship Alacrity sailed to South Africa. The historian Theal describes him as a man with "zeal and ability". With zeal and devotion he served the mission matter to him in 1818 with his band the London Missionary Society break with a Sextet missionaries.
About why he and the missionaries broke, today there is not consensus. Rev. John Campbell says Taylor a broader job search, but it was probably false, because the missionary circles of that time was too large to properly handle. Others argue that Lord Charles Somerset , the governor, persuaded them to the mission field to leave his favorable offers to take ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church to be. The former pastor tejort, as well as the governor's stated policy of the Dutch Church anglicised by importing Scottish ministers , support the latter view. The governor himself had then declared that Reverend. Taylor and others with the London Missionary Society broke because they could not go along with that there were irregularities in some missions have not prevailed. They could all seem hardly identify with the extreme "negrofilistiese" policy of the Society and the "exaggerated and false stories of the mistreatment of the natives by the farmers."
Around the time that the Somerset Taylor a minister in the newly established town Beaufort offered, he married a lady Hollandssprekende, Antonia F. of Gysel, a sister of the second wife of the Rev.. Vos MC of Shimla .
Beaufort [ edit ]

In the same proclamation by the establishment of the Beaufort District announced, is also hereby given of the appointment of the Reverend. Taylor as a minister of the district. In early December 1818 Rev. Taylor already established in Beaufort and his work began. He had not only white members visit and lobbying, but the blacks and with the magistrate overseeing the fledgling settlement Kookfontein, founded as a settlement or reserve the nomadic natives to move them within the boundaries of the Colony and to establish a settled way of life, too. He had to be a minister and missionary for an area as large as the Netherlands be.
Because the government especially expect him to people in the district to seek Reverend. Taylor's task almost superhuman and impossible. In addition, there was no trace of the "decent dwelling" the government to him and his family promised. He had a third-rate house with another family member. There was no church building. Sir John Fraser later told his father, Reverend. Colin Fraser , second minister, as a child, told him: "Religious services were held at a poplar comes near where the present dam wall is, the church, a tent or wagon Sails. " Only in 1820 the congregation gets to leave the service in a house of komdt. Abraham de Klerk hold. Late in the year it became possible. When Mary Moffat, daughter of the missionary Robert Moffat and later the wife of the explorer David Livingstone , Beaufort in February 1820 visit, she described the place where ds. Taylor had to keep services "as only a room in a farmhouse, with two beds in it. Leg I have many odd-lookig places, but never saw one like that." Repeated representations of the council "to" t build a simple building into a serving church "still on deaf ears in the government case and then rev. Taylor in 1823 transferred to Cradock, the church has no church building yet. Furthermore, the governor considered the nature of the district was of such a nature that suitable persons for the position of deacon or elder role, could not be found so that ds. Taylor more than a half years without a consistory on the way to come. Sometimes he was several months of home away with home visits in the different field cornetcies for everyone from house to house to visit, at least 18 months.
Despite the difficulties Ds. Taylor the foundations of the later church Beaufort submitted. He carefully different registers (baptism, marriage, church member) and carefully laid kept of the church's finances. On 11 April 1819 he became the first child to be baptized Kookfontein, shortly after a second "at home" in town. The first communion week 29 to 30 September 1820, when the first members (total of 65) and adopted suggestion. In June 1819, rev. Taylor the first "bedestond" and has since been held monthly prayer meetings (Monday) in progress.
Eighteen years Rev.. Taylor performed his job without a council or assembly in the canonical sense was. The first church council members, appointed by the Magistrate of Graaff-Reinet, on 16 May 1820 by the governor and approved on the same day, the town of Beaufort West as the authorities declared established. The first council consisted of two elders (Bothma and Christiaan MJ Stade) and three deacons (Gysbert Janze Dirk Wouter du Plooy, Brave Goerge Stephen de Beer). After the first board meeting on 29 September 1820 when DLA held the first deacon Beer cashier was. The first sexton was one Frylinck. Already in November 1820 the council decided to four times a year to keep Supper Festival, namely the third Sunday of January, April, July and October The festival begins on Friday, including the adoption of young members who then Saturday during one of the preparatory services proposed. Sunday was the Communion Service and Monday morning had the board meeting held. At the beginning of 1824 rev. Taylor by the governor to Cradock displaced. His last council meeting on January 5 1824 . That's all the council's minutes of his departure rep.
Church Cradock and death [ Edit ]

The NG Church Rev. Cradock. Taylor married and continued for 36 years until his death at the age of 72. The employee of the Kerkbode reported his death was "gentle and quiet". His mortal remains and those of his wife and two daughters rest in the wall of the church in Cradock . He was 41 years in the ministry. During his long tenure, the church in Beaufort and four in the town of Cradock six churches split. Although he was a Scot and principles at the Great Trek was opposed, he as pastor of Cradock strongly advocating for spiritual shaping of the Voortrekkers. In his preaching he was the Dutch language never fully authorize.
Sources [ edit ]

Dreyer, Reverend. A. 1924. Eeufeest Album of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa from 1824 to 1924 . Cape Town: Publication of the commission ZA Bijbelvereniging.
Olivier, rev. PL (compiler), Our congregational festival album . Cape Town and Pretoria: DRC Publishers, 1952.
Smith, rev. AP 1945. Memorial Book of the Dutch Reformed Church Beaufort West (1820-1945) . Beaufort West: NG Church Council.