From Ardis Taylor's A Few More Taylor's Volume IV p. 47 The Immigrant
In many ways I am reluctant to include anything concerning William Taylor, Sr.'s ancestors.  When I first started corresponding with the Taylor researcher who was finally able to put all the information together that I am including here, I really didn't believe any of it could be possible.  I had all sorts of reasons why I didn't think this could be William, Sr.'s family.  However, bit-by-bit the pieces of this puzzle started to come together and it appears that this may indeed be the lineage of our William, Sr.  I cannot take credit for putting any of this together.  It is the work of George Taylor, a highly respected Taylor researcher, who started his research with the early immigrant Taylors who settled in Virginia.  He has traced their migrations and lineage, stopping by the year 1850.  (?His work will eventually be made public in the form od a CD?)  Question marks mine, Clem!

For many years we have tried repeatedly to determine just which of the many Taylors who came to the United States was the ancestor of our family of Taylors.  Hopefully the search may finally be over.

In recent years I have been fortunate enough to come in contact, via the telephone and the U. S. mail, with a different type of genealogical research than I ever had been aware of previously.  The people involved in this type of research, most of whom had started years ago, were not just interested in finding names and dates of various Taylors, but in the history and migrations of the various early day Taylors and in the records which could be found concerning thses families or clans.  Consequently, they have compiled numerous legal documents, wills, information from tax rolls, court records, church records, and any other type of record where the names of these men were mentioned.  Many of these researchers who gathered this information worked mainly by thenselves, others published and/or shared records with other researchers.  Some have lived in areas where early records were readily available but remain inaccessible to many of us.

Unfortunately some of these people are no longer with us and are greatly missed.  Others are still in the process of attempting to compile all the material that they have amassed over the years.  I feel very fortunate to have had the privilege of corresponding with some of these researchers and to be the recipitent of so much of their research.

Most of what I am including here concerning our Taylor immigrant has been given to me by George Taylor of Lawrence, Kansas.  He was introduced to me by Bill Linder a number of years ago as the grandfather of all Taylor researchers and I must say that I agree with Bill.  Bill, who was from Arlington, Virginia, passed away in June of 2000.  He had volumes of information, several hundred pages of which he put on his website under "Family History House".  He was also author of several books, both on family history and how to do genealogical research.

George of Lawrence, Kansas, is a descendant of the immigrant George Taylor, born 1615, and the man who is responsible for finding that our William Taylor, Sr. was a descendant of this same George Taylor.  My knowledge of this George, born 1615, and his family is very limited.  He was born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, England in 1615.  Cumberland along with Northumberland County are the two most northern counties in England.  both bordering Scotland.  Carlisle is the capital or "county town" of Cumberland.  It is one of the two gateways to Scotland as it is located only ten miles from the Scottish border.