Sara Helen Biggs (Helen) (Biggs) Taylor
1834–1929
Suffragist. Born in Leicester, second daughter of Thomas Biggs, merchant, and Elizabeth Biggs. Married Thomas Taylor (1808/9–92) of Wigan, Lancashire, owner of a cotton-spinning business (Thomas Taylor and Brother), in 1857. A supporter of women’s suffrage; campaigned on behalf of the pit-brow women workers of Wigan, 1859–66, and canvassed for the re-election of John Stuart Mill in 1868. Lived in Hyde Park Gardens, London, and Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire. Mother of Mabel Mary and Beatrice Katherine Taylor. Author of Soups, savouries and sweets, with a chapter on breads, by a practical housewife (1889).
Sources
BMD (Birth index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/604/18/35), 1851 (HO107/1507/183/35), 1871 (RG10/19/8/8), 1881 (RG11/15/4/1)
Eckersley 2018, p. 7
Leicester Chronicle, 21 March 1857, p. 3
Liverpool Mercury, 16 March 1892, p. 6
The Times, 16 February 1929, p. 7
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Eckersley, Yvonne. 2018. The miners, pit brow lasses and women’s suffrage. Past Forward (Wigan Archives & Museums), August–November 2018, pp. 6–9.
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