Maria Jane Taylor - Chronology

Chronology

Early Years and Ophanhood

• 1837 Maria Jane Dyer born in Malacca
• 1839 Arrives in England with parents, Samuel and Burella
• 1841 Leaves for Singapore with parents, Samuel, Burella and Ms. Buckland
• 1842 Arrives in Singapore with parents who rent mission-house of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (Memoir p 240)

Ebenezer, baby brother, born (Memoir p 232, 235)

• 1843 Father leaves with John Stronach for London Missionary Society Conference in Hong Kong

Father dies in Macau (Maria is 6 years of age)

• 1844 Moves with her mother, Samuel and Burella to Penang

Mother takes over Chinese Girl's School for which her father had bequeathed money. There was no talk of the family returning to Britain (Not Less Than p 25)

• 1845 Mother marries Johann Georg Bausum, a German missionary based in Penang
• 1846 Mother dies in Penang (Maria is 9 years of age)

England and China

• 1847 Goes to England with Samuel and Burella in care of guardian, William Tarn (uncle)

Enters Polam Hall in Darlington, Durham, NE England with Burella

• 1852 Leaves England (at age 15) with Burella (age 17) with Mr. & Mrs. Cobbold (Church Missionary Society) for Mary Ann Aldersey's girls' school in Ningbo;
• 1853 Arrives in Shanghai; goes on to Ningbo to teach in Mary Ann Aldersey's Girls' School
• 1854 Hudson Taylor arrives in China
• 1856 Meets Hudson Taylor the day after his arrival in Ningbo

Declines Robert Hart's proposal

• 1857 Mary Ann Aldersey forces Maria to decline Taylor's proposal

Maria receives guardian's approval to marry Taylor

Married Life

• 1858 Married to James Hudson Taylor at Presbyterian Compound, Ningbo

Sister, Burella dies of cholera in Shanghai, age: 23 years Brother, Samuel Jr. emigrates to New Zealand

• Baby Taylor born and died in Ningpo Mission House, "Wu-gyiao-deo" Lake Head or Bridge Street, Ningbo
• 1859 Grace "Gracie" Dyer Taylor born in Ningpo Mission House, "Wu-gyiao-deo" Lake Head or Bridge Street, Ningbo
• Moved to Dr. William Parker's hospital, outside Salt Gate, Ningbo
• Ensing adopted, before 1860 in Ningbo
• 5 Chinese boys adopted, before June 1860 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
• 1860 Taylors moved for 2 weeks, to home of John Shaw Burdon, Shanghai

Life in London 1860 to 1866

• Sailed to England (via Cape of Good Hope) on furlough aboard the tea clipper Jubilee, with Hudson, Grace and Wang Laijun
• The Jubilee arrived November 20, 1860 in Gravesend, England
• Settled in 63 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, London
• 1861 Herbert "Bertie" Hudson Taylor born in 63 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, London
• Moved, to #1 Beaumont Street, London
• 1862 Frederick "Freddie" Howard Taylor born in #1 Beaumont Street, London
• 1864 Samuel "Sammie" Dyer Taylor born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England
• Moved to #30 Coborn Street, London
• 1865 Assisted in the writing of "China: Its Spiritual Need and Claims" with Hudson Taylor, in London
• Daughter Jane Dyer Taylor died at birth in #30 Coborn Street, London

Return to China 1866 to 1871

• 1866 Sailed to China (via the Cape of Good Hope) aboard the tea clipper Lammermuir with Hudson and four children, in East India Docks, London
• Arrived in China aboard the Lammermuir September 29, 1866 in Shanghai, China
• Settled with the Lammermuir party, December 1866 in 1 Xin Kai Long (New Lane), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
• 1867 Maria "Marie" Hudson Taylor born in 1 Xin Kai Long (New Lane), Hangzhou
• Daughter Grace Dyer Taylor died August 23, 1867 in temple at Pengshan, near Hangzhou
• 1868 Moved with Hudson in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
• Survived Yangzhou riot
• Moved with Hudson, to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
• Moved with Hudson in Yangzhou
• Charles Edward Taylor born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
• 1869 Moved with Hudson to Ningpo Mission House, "Wu-gyiao-deo" Lake Head or Bridge Street, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
• Family holiday with Hudson in Putuo Island, Zhejiang, China
• 1870 Son Samuel Dyer Taylor died aboard a boat in the Yangtze River near Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
• Moved with Hudson to Zhenjiang
• Noel Taylor born in Zhenjiang
• Son Noel died 13 days after birth in Zhenjiang
• Maria Jane (Dyer) Taylor died in Zhenjiang