0.0.4 – Simon Taylor Memorial

Curious Epitaph, Simon Taylor, Ann Taylor, Murder, Parramatta, 1799, 1790s, Old Parramatta, Old Parramattans, St. John's Cemetery Project, St. John's Cemetery, Parramatta Burial Ground — “Domestic Intelligence,” *The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848)*, Tuesday 25 November 1834, p. 2. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia via *Trove*.

Burial Location

Lost marked grave (no longer extant), exact location unknown, St. John’s Cemetery, Parramatta.

Notes

SOURCE: The grave of SIMON TAYLOR was reported and transcribed for The Australian (1834). “Domestic Intelligence,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Tuesday 25 November 1834, p. 2.

RELATED GRAVE: Grave of his wife (and alleged murder victim), ANNE TAYLOR: (R.15.I), St. John’s Cemetery, Parramatta.

Epitaph

Beneath this stone lies SIMON TAYLOR,

Who was hung by RICE the gaoler;

To hang on a tree, it was his lot,

For knocking the bottom out of his old tin pot.

Now let no one be artailer [sic: curtailer?]

For an innocent man was SIMON TAYLOR.

Parish Burial Register

Burial of SIMON TAYLOR

Biographical Content

Michaela Ann Cameron, “I Am But Sleeping Here,” St. John’s Online (2020).

Michaela Ann Cameron, “St. John’s Taphophiles,” St. John’s Online (2022).

Citation

St. John’s Online (stjohnsonline.org), “Memorial: St. John’s Cemetery, Parramatta,” (0.0.4), (2023), https://stjohnsonline.org/memorials/0-0-4/, accessed [insert current date]