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The Kirstead Taylors Part 5

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  The Kirstead Taylors A Newspaper cutting 'Kirstead Family Don Khaki', a captioned photograph montage of the six Taylor brothers in uniform, the sons of Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor and the late James Taylor of 42 Kirstead Ling, Brooke, Norwich. Three of the brothers were killed in June - July 1916, and are remembered on the Kirstead Green War Memorial. Mary Ann Taylor (1886-     ) was born on October 20, 1886 in Kirstead, Norfolk, England the eight child of James Taylor and Mary Ann Powles.   She was baptized in the Church of England in the Kirstead Parish Church on November 21, 1886.   Very little is known about Mary Ann aside from the information gleaned from the few records available.   She appears in the 1891 census and at 4 years old is still living at home.   By 1901, at age 14, she was living at the home and working as a domestic servant for Frederick J. G. Chapman, who was a local miller and grain merchant living in the Mill house in the Loddon district of Norwich.   The 1