This catalogue includes items related to the Taunton, Wild and Tucker families, who were ancestors of my paternal grandmother, Alice Mary Barnard (née Taunton). Her grandparents were Commissiary-General Henry James Wild and Mary Tudor Tucker. It includes items from my late cousin Ian Morin's house.
| Number & Link |
Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
| TAU-1 | Manuscript chart pedigree of Wild Family showing descendants of James Wild (1750-1801) and Sarah Heard. Signed by Elizabeth H.M. Wild, 25 Jan 1934. Some additions in the hand of Nea Morin | Given to John Barnard by Nea Morin, c. 1980 |
| TAU-2 | Manuscript chart pedigree in unknown hand showing descendants of Louisa Tucker and [unnamed] Saunders including Sir Frederick Saunders. | Given to John Barnard by Nea Morin, c. 1980 |
| TAU-3 | Manuscript chart pedigree in unknown hand showing desceandants of "Nea" Tucker of Bermuda, including Flora Taunton and children and various Saunders descendants | Given to John Barnard by Nea Morin, c. 1980 |
| TAU-4 | The Tauntons of Oxford by One of Them [William Garnett Taunton], London: Elliot Stock (1902). [Narrative family history, writen by the elder half-brother of Alice Mary Barnard (née Taunton), along with family trees, discussion of the coat of arms, etc. See also TAU/12] | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-5 | J.C.L. Clark, Tom Moore in Bermuda: A Bit of Literary Gossip.
Boston, Mass.: Smith and McCance (1909). [Account of the Irish poet Tom
Moore's sojurn in Bermuda in 1804, when he was inspired to write his
"Odes to Nea" by Hester Louisa Tucker (1786-1817)]. See also TAU/13. Copy
inscribed to “Mr T.F. Dillon Croker F.S.A. with the gratitude and
respect of J.C.L. Clark, 21 March 1910.” [Croker’s father had sent
Moore some Irish songs, which Moore used for his Irish Melodies, but I
am not aware of any connection Croker had with Hester Tucker’s
descendants]. A postcard (postmarked 13 Dec 1907) inserted inside the cover shows Hester Tucker’s house in Bermuda, and was sent by Ethel Taunton to her sister Alice Mary Barnard (both were great-grand-daughters of Hester’s) during a visit to Bermuda. | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-6 | Finely
bound books given to Rev Frederick Taunton by the teachers of St
Pauls’s & St Peter’s Ragged School, Hammersmith (where Taunton was
Curate 1844-53 and 1867-75), June 1853, with inscriptions to him.
| From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-7 | Two photographs with thin cardboard cover. Though marked “The Rectory, Headley Down??” they actually show the Old Vicarage at Kingswood, where Frederick Taunton was Vicar 1876-1901. | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-8 | Envelope marked “Winifred 102” containing photographs and press cuttings concerning Winifred Estelle Taunton (née Smith) (1873-1976), the wife of Rev. Edward Willoughby Taunton (1874-1953). | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-9 | Envelope marked “Agatha Photos” containing variety of photographs and a press cutting from Surrey Mirror and County Post
of 5 Aug 1966 concerning the Old Vicarage at Kingswood. Photos include
one marked “Lilian, Agatha Gertie” [presumably Alice Barnard’s three
younger sisters], one marked “Grandfather Wild” and “Dear Flora, with
love from Lou Hunter” [presumably Commissary-General Henry James Wild
(1793-1873) – Louisa Elizabeth Hunter, née Wild (1839-1934) was
Flora Taunton’s sister], one marked “mother” [presumably Flora
Charlotte Taunton, née Wild (1843-1924)]. Also a smaller
envelope containing four photos – two identical (one marked Flora
Charlotte Taunton), one showing the gravestone of Mabel Gertrude de
Salis (née Taunton), and one showing a couple (of which the
woman appears to be Flora Taunton). | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-10 | Framed portrait of Sir William Elias Taunton (1773-1835), Judge of the Kings Bench. This
appears to be a black-and-white reproduction of the oil portrait by
Henry Perronet Briggs, of which the original is at Christ Church Oxford
(https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-william-elias-taunton-17731835-229098). A reproduction also appears as the frontispiece of The Tauntons of Oxford by One of Them [TAU/4]. Sir William is not to be confused with his father, also Sir William Elias Taunton (1744-1825), Town Clerk of Oxford (see TAU/11). | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-11 | Caricature etching of Sir William Elias Taunton (1744-1825), Town Clerk of Oxford. This print by Robert Dighton is well known – there are three impressions at the National Portrait Gallery alone, though at least one of them (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw64209/Sir-William-Elias-Taunton-A-view-taken-from-the-Town-Hall-Oxford) misidentifies the sitter as Sir William Elias Taunton (1773-1835), Judge of the Kings Bench, who was his eldest son (see TAU/10). In August 2023 an impression was being offered for sale by Sanders of Oxford at £65. | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |
| TAU-12 | Medal struck in commemoration of the new grant of arms made to Rev. Frederick Taunton in 1886 and extensively discussed in The Tauntons of Oxford by One of Them [TAU/4], which shows a reproduction of the medal on p. 45. | From Ian Morin's house, 2023; held by Natasha Evans |
| TAU-13 | Silhouette miniature of Hester Louisa Tucker (1786–1818), “Nea”, of Bermuda. Hester Tucker was the inspiration behind the Irish poet Tom Moore’s Odes to Nea (see TAU/5), which name was given to her descendant Nea Morin (née Barnard). | From Ian Morin's house, 2023 |