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. Grave reported and transcribed for The Australian (1834).

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.

Related Content

Parish 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).

Related Grave

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

Source

“Domestic Intelligence,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Tuesday 25 November 1834, p. 2.

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]

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