Other surviving children of Charles & Sarah Taplin

• William Taplin (born 1815) was working as a perfumer in St Clement’s, Oxford when on 27 April 1846 he married Elizabeth White, daughter of the cordwainer William White, at Headington. William was described as a hairdresser and shaver in Gardner’s Oxfordshire Directory for 1852. At the time of the 1861 census he was aged 45 in 1861 and living at 6 St Clement’s Street with his wife Elizabeth and their servant Harriet Taplin (39), who was born in Woodstock and was probably William’s sister. William died from a gunshot wound in his sitting room at 6 St Clement’s Street at the age of 50 on 27 November 1864. As it was possible he fell while holding the loaded gun, an open verdict was returned. The inquest report in Jackson’s Oxford Journal on 3 December 1864 stated that he had formerly been a hairdresser but latterly kept a basket warehouse, and his wife said, “I never considered him out of his mind, although some people thought so.” He was buried at St Clement’s churchyard on 30 November 1864. His effects came to under £100, and his executors were his widow Elizabeth and his brother John Ashley Taplin (a printer in Banbury) and his sister Mrs Mary Ann March.
• Thomas Taplin (born 1817) disappears from the records and may have died in childhood.
• Harriet Taplin (born 1820) was aged 28 in 1851 and working as a house servant to the Rector of Hampton Poyle; and in 1861 she was the servant of her brother William and his family at 6 St Clement’s Street, Oxford. She never married, and died in the Headington district at the age of 66 in 1886.
• James Taplin (born 1824) is hard to identify in the censuses, but may be the 15-year-old boy of that name who was a servant of the solicitor John Walsh in New Inn Hall Street, Oxford in 1851.
• Charles Taplin junior (born 1822) continued to work as a college servant: for more about his life, see the grave of his first wife, Mary. He had one surviving daughter, Mary Taplin, by his second wife, and died in 1892.
• Philip Taplin (born 1826) was a 30-year-old schoolmaster at Leafield when he married Rose Roberts, the daughter of the late Mr H. Roberts, solicitor of Oxford, at St Michael & All Angels Church in Summertown on 31 December 1857 (with the announcement in Jackson’s Oxford Journal erroneously stating that the marriage took place in St Giles’s Church). They became the Master and Mistress of the Fareham Union Workhouse in Hampshire, and their only child, Philip Henry Taplin, died of whooping cough there on 27 October 1881. They had retired to Painswick Cottage in Summertown by the time of the 1891 census.
• John Ashley Taplin (born 1828) married Sarah Butler Prescott in the Banbury district in 1856. In 1861 he was a master printer, living at 36 Parsons Street, Banbury with his wife Sarah and their children Mazzini Charles Taplin (4), Mary Taplin (3), and John Taplin (1). In 1871 they were at 22 Parsons Street with Mazzini (14), who was a printer’s boy on a visit home, and Mary (13), John (11), Sarah Ann (10), Philip (8), Ashley (7), William (5), Henry (4), George (3), and Rose (four months), plus a general servant. In 1881 John (54) was a printer & furniture dealer living at 29 Horse Fair, Banbury, with his wife and eight of his children; he was still at that address in 1891 and 1901. John Ashley Taplin died on 23 October 1905. His effects came to £2,476 3s. 4d.
• Elizabeth Taplin (born 1831/2), described as a gloveress of Woodstock, married William Hunt, a baker of Botley, at St Paul’s Church on 4 November 1858, with her brother Charles as a witness, and an announcement of the wedding was placed in Jackson’s Oxford Journal. They had five children baptised at North Hinksey Church: Sarah Elizabeth (1859), Charles (1861), Anne (1864), William (1866), and Edith (1870). At the time of the 1861 census Elizabeth (28) and William (31) were living at Botley Mill with William’s father, John Hunt, the miller there. She died at Botley at the age of 42 and was buried at North Hinksey Church on 18 August 1874.

• Mary Ann Taplin (born 1834) married Mark Manchester Marsh in London (in the St George, Hanover Square district) near the beginning of 1861. They do not appear to have had any children. Mary Ann was aged 35 in 1871 and living in St Ebbe’s Street with her husband Mark, who was a grocer. The Marshes were in Kensington in 1881, but back in Oxford in 1891, running a grocer’s shop at 21 Magdalen Road. Her husband died there on 7 March 1909, and his effects came to £56 10s. Mrs Mary Ann Marsh (76) was still living at 21 Magdalen Road in 1911, and another widow was living with her. She died near the beginning of 1913.

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