My name is taylor and i am a decedent of alfred taylor jr the son of bulala

I know a great deal about Alfred Taylor, your great grand dad but would always like to know more.
You will have difficulty contacting any close relatives of Morant because that was not his real name and he had no known descendents nor did Witton. Handcock married and had a family and his descendents still live in Australia.

I have a great deal of information about Bulala, including photos and would be happy to tell you all I know.

I am completing an academic article on Alfred Taylor for an Zimbabwean history journal, and would like to know something of his descendants like yourself. And if there is anything you would like to know please ask. my email is >rsrob@mweb.co.zw<

I am a Zimbabwean historian completing an academic article on Alfred Taylor for an Zimbabwean history journal, and would like to know something of his descendants. And if there is anything you would like to know please ask. my email is >rsrob@mweb.co.zw<

I am completing an academic article on Alfred Taylor for an Zimbabwean history journal, and would like to know something of his descendants like yourself. And if there is anything you would like to know please ask. my email is >rsrob@mweb.co.zw<

I have lots of material on Bulala and would be happy to share some of it with you. I also have photos of him and recently of some of the sites in Limpopo Province including his office.I will respond to your e mail address.

Hi, my name is Tony and I too am a great grandson of Alfred Bulala Taylor and my Grandmother was Nora Taylor; one of Bulala's daughters. I have verbal information of interest.

Hi, my name is Tony and I too am a great grandson of Alfred Bulala Taylor and my Grandmother was Nora Taylor; one of Bulala's daughters. I have verbal information of interest.

Hi, my name is Tony and I too am a great grandson of Alfred Bulala Taylor and my Grandmother was Nora Taylor; one of Bulala's daughters. I have verbal information of interest.

I am the great great grand daughter of Captain Alfred Bulala Taylor. My grandfather, Victor Taylor is the son of Charles Taylor, the youngest son of Bulala.

My grandfather would be happy to share his memories of his time on Avoca Farm. We would also like to know of and communicate with any descendants of Bulala's.

Thank you.

Hi sir .I am a greate-greate grand son of chief madumetsa sebola who was killed in 1902 by bulala taylor.can you help in shedding more information about this.my name is jeoffrey sebola -the son of piet sebola

Hi Bulalataylor

I am the great grandson of Captain Alfred James 'Bulala' Taylor his wife was Phoebe Taylor and there is a chapter in a book called 'The first steps in civilizing Rhodesia' about them. He was never court marshaled at the same time as Breaker Morant. Proof of this is that he fought in the First World War. My interests lie more on trying to find out about Phoebe and I read in this thread that there is someone who has pictures, documents and other paraphernalia about Alfred Taylor. Is there any way that I can make contact with this person? Further information about Captain Alfred Taylor is that he got his nickname through stick fighting with the Matabele and not killing. Not to say he didn't do a lot of that.

So you are a descendant of his first born. I come from one of his daughters, her name was Nora Taylor.

I too, am a descendant of Captain Taylor and would be happy to make contact with you, is that possible?

I met my Great Uncle Charles Taylor when they stayed near CBC. He was married to Inga and I remember a daughter. I am happy to communicate with your grandfather Victor

Bulala Taylor was court-martialled in mid January-mid february 1902 on two charges of murder of 1) Five Afrikaner men and a boy; and 2) of an African man. He was found not guilty. Therefore there was no impediment to serving in the First world war.

Phoebe was the daughter of Richard Clarke, a trader in Shoshong, and his wife who was daughter of Gasiboni of the Batlaping. Phoebe first married Arthur Wolfenden (actually Wolfenstein, a German) and he died on his way back from guBuluway, leaving her with two young children.. She married Bulala in Shoshong in September 1887; he thus became stepfather to the Wolfenden children who also grew up on Avoca and had descendants.

Could you please let me know where you got this info from? I have made contact with someone who has been researching Taylor for years and who I suspect is a participant in this discussion. I would like to confer with him as there has never been mention of some of this info.

The information comes from detailed research that I have carried out, which I am still pursuing because I would like to learn about the children of Phoebe and Bulala=who did they marry, where did they spend their life, what sort of job etc. That is just to get some sort of idea of how they fared in a racially discriminatory society. However, i have learned almost nothing from this site because participants do not reveal their names and are not forthcoming.
ADDITION. If you are seriously interested in what I said in my last post, there are two additions. 1) strictly speaking Bulala was not 'court-martialled' but tried under martial law but by the same board of officers who holding the courts martial at the same time; this was because Bulala resigned his commission more than 3 months before the time of the trials, in order to evade a court martial, not realising that he would be tried just the same but with a technical difference. After the not guilty verdict he may have rejoined the Army but I have not been able to verify that, and i incline to doubt it. 2) Phoebe was born about 1871, probably a couple of years earlier. She died in 1948.

Hi Raymond/Stanley. (Surname?)

I can give you info on my family and a few names of other descendants but you must understand that because our Paternal lineage was European we were registered as that. Some of Phoebe's children continued to inter marry and were deemed to be coloured. On my side, unknown to me, we followed the European culture and was recognized as such. I suspect that "heliwest" is the Joe West I have been corresponding with. My interests are similiar to yours but I am interested to find out if Phoebe's lineage goes back to the little white girl that was abducted at the Vegkop massacre. If you are interested in contacting me my email address is: golden04051@gmail.com and the name is Tony.

Hallo I have been researching Alf Taylor over the years and think I know a lot about him Recently we have found newspapers indicating he was in France with the SANLC. You can alaways contact me on heliwest@btinternet.com
Joe West

Who is who here, i am frank, was married to anne daughter of jj taylor in bulawayo . very interested in who i am going to meet here

Hi Frank

This is a list of children that Taylor had. I know that Phoebe had 2 or 3 children from Wolvendon, I cannot find a list I had.

Maude (Lindeboom) , Nora (Davies), Adie (I think really named Adrian), Alfred, Freddy, Claud, Albert and Charles

My name is Tony and my grandmother was Nora Taylor. Can you elaborate on the list of children you have of Taylor's because I don't know of an Anne?

Hi nice to meet you Bulala Alfred James Taylor is my great grandfather and i would really love to see pics and know more about this man. Apparently his son was named after him which was also Alfred which is my mothers father and his my grand dad. I really would appereciate you sharing some of my grandparents histroy. Thank you

Hi please email me on crazygood3906@gmail.com i would really like to see pics of him i have one of his rifle got to look for it in my pics and share with you all.

Hi nice to meet you Nora was which daughter because Bulalas son was also named Alfred and I do not recall gandpa ever mention granny Nora. Did Bulala perhaps marry two wifes? I remember the farm in Plum Tree Avoca Farm thats where my mum and them grew up. Let me know what you know okay email me crazygood3906@gmail.com.

Hi nice to meet you Nora was which daughter because Bulalas son was also named Alfred and I do not recall gandpa ever mention granny Nora. Did Bulala perhaps marry two wifes? I remember the farm in Plum Tree Avoca Farm thats where my mum and them grew up. Let me know what you know okay email me crazygood3906@gmail.com.

Hi my grandfather was Alfred Taylor named after his dad bulala his my mothers father i have never got to meet grandpa victor and Charles will ask my mum about them email me on crazygood3906@gmail.com so we can get to know more. I got a pic of a gun used by Bulala if i find it will send to you if you send me email. Thanks hey.

Hi Frank i,m Annes cousin JJ Taylor is my mums brother i am Samantha

My Grandfather is Alfred my mums dad she is violet Taylor

Thank you for responding to my topic.Nice to meet you. So you would be the decendat of Alfred Taylor known as (JIPJIP)if I am correct, so whos son are you Jordashe would be intersting to know where in the family you fall. I am also very interested in finding out about The Maurant, Hancock and Witton families if you have any news I would apprecitae it.

Dear Heliwest, Thank you so much for your response to my initial enquiry. Thank you also for letting me know about Morant and Witton. Are you in contact with the decendants of Handcock in Australia? It would be amazing to touch base with these people.I would also like to see what you have on my Great Grand Pa. If there is anyway I can help you learn more, please let me know. Is there any connection between you and the Author of "Shoot Straight You Bastards" Joe West? Very exciting, I look forward to hearing from you.

Good day Heliwest, Thank you ever so much, Would love to hear from you and would be wonderful to see some pictures as well. Have a great day.

Dear RSROB, Thank you so much for your response to my initial enquiry. It’s wonderful to know that you are entering an article about my Great Grand Pa in a Zimbabwean history journal. Would you please let me know the name of your journal, so I can be on the lookout for it. Where in the world are you based It would be great if we could meet one day to exchange notes etc. I am based in the UK at the moment. I am actually in the process of collecting information as I intend to write a book on him one day, as he actually brought my Dad up, who was his First Grand Son. Have a great day. I look forward to hearing from you.

Hi Tony Thanks ever so much for your input. I actually do know of you and that’s very exciting. My Dad often spoke about Your Grand Mother. I knew all the other of Bulala's Children, but for some unknown reason I didn’t ever get to know Nora. My father was a great one for family relationships, took us to all the relatives. Grandma Maud and all the others were household names and people in our house. I did get to meet; I think it’s one of your Aunts also called Nora who married Rashid Osman. In fact she is still alive I just saw her on my last trip to Zim a few weeks ago. She is now in a facility for the elderly.
It would be lovely to touch base with you we could exchange so many notes as My Dad never lived with his own father but was brought up by Bulala and Grandma Phoebe. Do you have any information on any of the following families? The Morant, Witton and Handcock descendants.
I would love to hear all the exciting information you have to share. I look forward to hearing from you.

Hello Jeophrey,
I wish I could shed some light onto this but I’m afraid I don’t have any information of this incident. I would be very grateful if you could furnish me with some of the details so I can try and do some research with regards to your Great Grand Father and Bulala Taylor. For example place of Incident or anything that can through some light on it, etc. I look forward to hearing from you.

Good afternoon to you Vikki..

I came across a question on google about Captain Taylor who I too am a decendant.. There are many many relatives... I am related on both sides as My grandmother was DAISY TAYLOR (granddaughter of Bulala Taylor) and my Grandfather was DAVID WOLFENDEN... They had the same grandmother PHOEBIE WOLFENDEN-TAYLOR (NEE CLARKE)... (Aunt Phil has loads of information)

Would be great to hear back from you ..

Take care

Martha Wolfenden.. x

Hello, my mum's family is part of the Bulala lineage. My grandmother is Veronica West (Abrahams) I am not sure if you know her. Could I ask you for more information on Anne to add to what I have?

Hi my name is Tony, part of the family. May I suggest that you go on facebook and join the group "Taylors old and new". We are all on that group which is administrated by Samantizo (Sp)

Hi may I ask you to go on facebook and join the group "Taylors Old and New". A lot of us are on this group.

Thank you very much, just did that