Landlords of the Angel

Now: we all know that the Angel Inn, Glemsford, is the finest hostelry around, and we do know something about the recent landlords, but can anyone help Chris Faircloth? He wrote:

My father, William George Faircloth was born in Colchester in 1911, the youngest of six children. His father, Willie Samuel Faircloth was born at Hardy's Green near Birch in Essex in 1866.

Willie Samuel had a sister, Kate Faircloth who married a Walter Taylor.

According to info we have, they lived at the Angel Inn at Glemsford in the early years of the 20th century. They had children who would have been first cousins to my dad and his sisters, yet for some reason, my dad never seemed to have had any contact with them.

Are you aware of any Talyors in the village who trace their family back to Kate and Walter?

There are a whole group of Faircloth descendants who would love to know.

So: there's the question. Over to you lot ...

The 1901 Census, by the way, shows Walter and Kate running the Angel in that year, with children William (11) and Arthur (1). Arthur is recorded as having been born in Glemsford, the others, as Chris says, in Essex.
There were other Taylors living on Egremont St, Fair Green and at Lay's Farm.
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Alfred Taylor and Caroline Watkinson, amongst others

Sue Yannakopoulos has approached me with this request.

Looking for information about my grandfather, Robert Taylor, born abt.1888 in Glemsford to Alfred and Caroline Taylor. I have the 1891 and 1901 census records and they state that Alfred Taylor was a cocoa mat maker and Robert was a yarn winder (hemp).

I do know that Robert enlisted in the army in 1903 and was probably underage, he joined the Suffolk regiment, marrying my grandmother, Florence Grace Saunderson in 1919 at Thetford and they sailed to India shortly afterwards.

I would love to hear from anyone related to Robert Taylor, he came from a family of 8 children. We have been searching for him for many many years and his daughter (now 83 years of age) didn't see her father again after the age of 12 as her parents divorced. I am hoping to put together a family tree for her.

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

I have been able to help Sue take the story back further into the nineteenth century, including a link into the Watkinson family of Glemsford, but the hunt ground to a halt with Alfred Taylor's father. His mother, Elizabeth, appears as a widow from 1851 onwards, and there is a suggestion that Alfred had a twin brother William, but, with my limited resources, I can't identify Elizabeth's marriage (she came from Belchamp) and therefore her maiden name, nor her husband's forename.

More importantly, I have no information about Robert other than his existence.

Incidentally, I normally impose a "Great War" rule on my searches, feeling that anything beyond that is rather too recent. I'd be interested to know what others think.

As always, if anyone can help Sue, please let me know.