BORN SOUTHAMPTON 1884. SON OF CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR (1843-1912) & MARGARET WILLIAMS TAYLOR (1845-1893). HE MARRIED JESSIE MAY (LEWIS) IN HULL IN 1912. THEY LIVED AT 6 GLAISDALE, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL. HE SERVED AS A STEWARD ON THE SS ‘KIRKHAM ABBEY’, SUNK ON 27/07/1918. HE WAS 34. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR.
SS Kirkham Abbey, built by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1908 and owned at the time of her loss by Hull & Netherlands S.S. Co. Ltd. (J. H. N. Ringrose), Hull, was a British steamer of 1166 tons.
On July 27th, 1918, Kirkham Abbey, on a voyage from Rotterdam to Hull with general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine UB-40 (Hans Joachim Emsmann), 2 miles NExE of Winterton. 8 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS KIRKHAM ABBEY
JOHNSON, JOHN (32), Second Mate, Kirkham Abbey, Mercantile Marine, 27/07/1918, Son of George Haldenby and Mary Jane Johnson, of 7A, Lee St., Holderness Rd., Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
TAYLOR, MINOR (34), Steward, S.S. Kirkham Abbey, Mercantile Marine, 27/07/1918, Son of the late Christopher and Margaret Taylor; husband of Jessie May Taylor (nee Lewis), of 6, Glaisdale, Goddard Avenue, Hull. Born at Southampton, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
