Margaret Alice Taylor

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• Name: Maggie Alice Taylor
• Name: Maggie Taylor
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65402
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Residence: Main St. W., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30848
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian Church
• Business: 1877, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woods & Taylor
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dry Goods Merchant
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant

Alfred — Margaret "Maggie" Fisher. Margaret (daughter of Alexander Fisher and Georgina D. Fyfe) was born 11 Sep 1848, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland; was christened 12 Nov 1848, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland; died 15 Feb 1929, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 18 Feb 1929, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maggie Fisher
• Name: Margaret "Maggie" Taylor
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65400
• Residence: 1851, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Sctland
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Recipes: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Recipes:
CHICKEN POT PIE

Stew gently a nice chicken. Season with salt and pepper and thicken the gravy with a tablespoonful of flour, mixed smooth with a piece of butter, size of an egg. Have ready some biscuit dough cut in pieces an inch square; drop this into the gravy, having previously removed the chicken to a hot platter. Boil fifteen minutes. Lay on the platter with the chicken, pour over the gravy and serve.

STEAMED EGGS

Butter a tin plate and break in your eggs, set in a steamer, place over a kettle of boiling water and steam till the whites are cooked.If broken into buttered patty-pans they look nicer by keeping their form better. Or,still better, if broken into egg cups and steamed until done, they are very nice. Cooked in this way there is nothing of their flavor lost.

CHICKEN POT PIE

Have ready biscuit dough cut in square pieces, and bake in the oven. Split them and put on a platter, and our your gravy over them, putting chicken in the centre.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Galt Cook Book


Recipes:
PICKLED EGGS - Mrs. A. Taylor

Boil eggs very hard and remove the shell. Take one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and mace; put in a little muslin bag in cold water; boil well, and if it boils away add enough to make one-half pint when the spices are taken out; add one pint of strong vinegar; pour over the eggs. If you want them colored put in some beet juice.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-128190
• Occupation: 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; tailor
• Business: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Taylor & Green
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1887, Cedar St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

The first great fire in Galt took place in 1851. The buildings on Main Street were then chiefly wooden, more especially on the south side where the long and handsome Granite Block now stands. The fire broke out in the store carried on by one McKinnon, and soon all that portion of the street was in flames, The fire engines were worked with a will, but they were powerless against such a mass of flame as soon arose. Messrs Peter Cook, Alex. H. Mowat, R. McKinnon, Andrew Elliott, John McVenn, Robert Wallace all well-remembered names were among those burned out on the occasion. *

*The Granite Block which replaced these buildings was abo destroyed by fire in 1862. The fire originated from a barrel of Naptha in Fleming A Robinson's grocery, and in consequuence of having a lighted lamp brought too close to it. It occurred about seven o'clock on Saturday evening, the 31st May, 1862, and the fire spread with unprecedented rapidity. The following shops were destroyed: Fleming & Robinson, groceries; John Fleming, books and stationery; William Frier, dry goods; John Orchard tailor and clothier; R. S. Strong, drugs and chemicals; William Kerr, boots and shoes. Besides these establishments, the buildings of Mr. Robert Wallace, and the stocks of Messrs. W. H. Job, Wm. Prest, Angus Polson, Taylor & Green, and George West, were injured by removal, or otherwise. The losses were very heavy

Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young, 1880 Toronto: Hunter, Rose Pg. 220


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In Galt, on Wednesday morning, August 3rd, 1887, at 6 o'clock, James Taylor, father of Messrs. Alfred and Alexander Taylor, in his 85th year.

Funeral, this (Friday) afternoon, at 4 o'clock, from his late residence, Cedar Street, to Mount View Cemetery.

Galt Reporter Aug 5 1887 pg 1

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Death of an Aged Resident

We regret to announce this week the death of Mr. James Taylor, father of Messrs. Alfred and Alexander Taylor, of Galt, which occurred at his residence on Wednesday last. Mr. Taylor had been long a resident of Galt. For the past year or more, - he was n his 85th year at the time of his death, - he has been confined to his house by bodily infirmities consequent upon his age, but the immediate cause of his death was an attack of dysentery. Unfortunately, on Tuesday last, Mr. Alfred Taylor with Mrs. Taylor, left Galt for Orchard Beach, with the intention of spending a few weeks there. Telegrams announcing his father's death reached him at Cornwall, from whence he at once left for home.

Galt Reporter Aug 5 1887 pg 1

James — Mary Barin. Mary was born 1810, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died 30 Apr 1896, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Baron
• Name: Mary Taylor
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-128191
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1887, Cedar St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1896, Blair Rd, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

An Aged and Respected Resident of Galt

There died Thursday, at the residence of her son, Mr. Alex. Taylor, Blair road, Mary, widow of the late James Taylor, aged 87 years. Deceased was a. native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland and has been in this country, over forty years, the greater portion of that time she being a resident of Galt. She was a lady of more than ordinary intelligence and was highly respected throughout the town. Her husband died a number of years ago. For some time after his death, she lived alone, but as she found old age and infirmities creeping over her, she gave up the house and went to reside with her son. Deceased leaves four sons, Alfred and Alexander, Galt and two in the United States.

The Weekly Reformer 7 May 1896 pg 3

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/261124503
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-254280
• Residence: 1829, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland
• Occupation: 1851, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland; school master
• Residence: 1851, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland

Alexander — Georgina D. Fyfe. Georgina was born CALC 25 Mar 1806, Leith, , Midlothian, Scotland; died 25 Dec 1897, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Georgina D. Fisher
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-254279
• Residence: 1829, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland
• Residence: 1851, Castleton, , Roxburgh, Scotland
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland

Notes:

MRS. ALEX FISHER To recall the life of someone whom we have known out of the dim shades of the memory into the light of the present consciousness is like invoking a rich benediction upon the soul. It is like the smell of violets in the early spring, or of heliotrope and fragrant roses in the summer, or of hyacinths in midwinter. It is exceedingly refreshing and invigorating. It carries into our present experience a fresh inspiration and a new girding with power, and a higher motive to live more worthily. So we feel as we recall the beautiful and quiet career of Mrs. Fisher. She was one of those charming personalities who carry with them a rich glow of kind, loving feeling, and a motherly warmness of heart and a healthy, heartsome, decisive religiousness of spirit. She was religious with the consent of her whole being, and of large intelligence in the ways of God. A great reader of religious books. Her heart was not walled in, but overflowed with generous and tender affection. It was an unspeakable pleasure to visit her, and hear her narrate her experiences; and that is a precious coin, always current among the godly. She took great delight in gospel truth, and was a beautiful exponent of it in her own mild, sweet nature, and in the lovely and attractive life she lived. She seemed to dwell in the secret place of the Most High, and to abide under the shadow of the Almighty. We cannot forget her sweet Christian contentment, her bright, cheery countenance, enlivened by thought and made beautiful by true piety, her dignified repose of character, that seemed always sufficient for itself, Whatever earthly fountains might supply her with, it was evident that she drew most from those above. Whatever the nether springs afforded, her main reliance was upon the upper springs; and these never run dry. She spent her last years with Mrs. Robertson in Woodstock, where I had the happiness of calling on her frequently, and she was still the same that she had been before, engaged in reading some spiritual book that fed her soul with heavenly manna, conversing with delight upon the great themes of the higher Christian life, seeking zealously greater conformity to Christ, and spending the time in prayer and pious meditation. She loved God's house, and never failed to appear there when she could. And when failing strength hindered her from going there, she often mourned the loss she deeply felt. The house of God meant much to her, was much to her, as it is to all who are truly spiritual. The Bible, which holds the chief place there, held the chief place in her regard. She loved other good books, but this best of all. She had stored her memory with it. One day near the end, when sight had failed and she could no longer see to read, her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Taylor, called and asked, "What are you doing this morning, mother?" "Oh," she said, "I am going through Nehemiah." She was reading it from the tablet of her memory where it was in scribed long before. The Lord, in his love, satisfied all her longings and hungerings after better things, as he said to her, "Come up higher," and the lovely, saintly soul entered into the presence of the King to see Him and be like Him, and to crown Him Lord of all.

Ebenezer: A History of the Central Presbyterian Church, Galt, Ontario, with brief sketches of some of its members who have passed on the the other side, The Rev. James A. R. Dickson