THIS IS ABOUT SAMUEL TAYLOR'S LIFE IN 
ENGLAND BEFORE DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALND I have the 1843 birth certificate of 
Samuel (Taylor) SADLER – and no marriage 
is recorded for his 
parents Joseph Sadler and Sarah Taylor Register Details
Sutton in Ashfield Mansfield Nottingham
When Born
4 November 1843
Where Born
King Street – this was where Sarah TAYLOR 
unmarried daughter of Samuel TAYLOR was 
living in 1841. 
Name & Sex
Samuel - a boy
Father    
Joseph SADLER a Frame Work Knitter
Mother
Sarah SADLER formerly TAYLOR
Informant
X the mark of Sarah SADLER mother King 
Street
Although Samuel's father was Joseph 
Sadler, it appears that Samuel was known 
by his mothers maiden 
name, Samuel Taylor. Samuel was bought up 
in King St, Sutton in Ashfield Sutton in 
Ashfield, 
Nottingham, England. KING STREET. Now one of the leading 
streets of the town, was once upon a time 
recognised 
as "Beggar Street."
 
This is where his grandparents, mother and 
a sister Maria, (whom Sarah gave birth to 
in 1838) lived 
and later in 1849 when his mother Sarah 
Taylor married Robert Kirkby. Sarah and 
Robert had a 
daughter Elizabeth in 1850. Sarah Taylor 
died aged 39 on the 30th March 1861 and is 
buried in the 
Sutton in Ashfield Church yard. In the 
1861 census it shows Samuel at the age of 
17 had moved from 
King St and was working as a labourer 
living in lodgings in Prinxton. MY RESEARCH ON JOSEPH SADLER 
I have tracked  Joseph SADLER listed in 
1901 back to 1841 census
There was a definite group of SADLER men 
from Sutton or living there who were frame 
work knitters.
More important there weren’t many of them, 
which means there is a good chance that we 
have the 
correct Joseph SADLER.
Baptisms in Sutton in Ashfield – • 9 Mar 1823 Joseph son of Thomas and Mary 
SADLER
 MARRIAGE 1848 – Registered Nottingham
June Qtr. 1848 Joseph SADLER to Mary 
MOWBRAY reference 15 917 When faced with identity crises we always 
look for matching points as witnesses. 
Here we have the 
following
• A man of the correct name
• Correct age
• Correct occupation
• Correct Location
• Correct time scale to be father of 1843 
Samuel SADLER/TAYLOR
CONSLUSION
We could try very hard to say he isn’t the 
one but sense tells us he could well be.
PROBLEM - we will probably never be able 
to prove it. 

A NEW LIFE
 In 1864 Samuel married Elizabeth Palmer 
and in 1865 under the Waikato Immigration 
Scheme they 
immigrated to New Zealand. They set sail 
on the 13 February 1865 from London 
England to Auckland 
New Zealand on the "Lancashire Witch". 
The journey took 6 months with the ship 
berthing in Auckland on the 1st June 1865.
While at sea their first born child Samuel 
was born. Samuel & Elizabeth first settled 
in 
Mangawhai, where Samuel was a member of a 
party sent by the Government to build a 
breakwater. He 
applied for a land grant under the Waikato 
Immigration Scheme in the Hakaru area, but 
was not 
successful so he purchased a section of 
land where they lived after the work was 
completed. **A 
party of Maoris arrived one day, danced 
around their whare with spears and meres, 
thinking the end 
had come, until the chief spoke to them, 
taking all their food they soon left. It 
was lucky the 
mailman Joe Bowmar arrived the following 
day and took them back to his place in 
Maungaturoto.** This as per book "Valley 
in the Hills"
The Thames gold rush started and Samuel 
was amongst those that caught the fever 
and 
set off to find gold. Sadly he returned 
after loosing all his money, sold his land 
in Mangawhai 
and purchased some 29 acres in Gorge Rd in 
Maungaturoto for 29 pounds on the 3rd 
August 1870 and 
an ajoining 20 acres for 5 pounds on the 
19 August 1871. This was where he & 
Elizabeth bought up 
their 9 surviving children. Over the 
enduring years Samuel was very active in 
the community and 
worked as a contractor/carter and other 
various works. Sadly on 2 February 1913 
Samuel was 
tragically drowned. It was reported in the 
Poverty Bay News 4th February 1913 from 
"Auckland last 
night the Inspector of Police has received 
word that Samuel Taylor aged 69 years was 
found drowned 
in a well at Maungaturoto on Sunday 2 
February. At the inquest a verdict of 
"Accidental Drowning" 
was returned". Elizabeth lived on in 
Maungaturoto for another 16 years and 
sadly died of a heart 
attack on 6th April 1929. Samuel & 
Elizabeth were some of the very early 
immigrants from England 
to settle in the Maungaturoto District.