I am looking for the parents of my great x 3 grandfather Thomas Taylor who was a Master Tailor and Draper. He was born about 1801 and died in 1887. Through successive census records from 1841-1881 he is shown as a Master Tailor employing various numbers of men.

Commercial directories indicate that there was a Thomas Taylor & Son - tailors and habit makers at 60 King Street, Manchester in 1815. There was also a Thomas Taylor, tailor, at Ridgefield (close to Picadilly) in 1797 who MAY have been his father.

It appears Thomas married Sarah Earl from Sheerness, Kent in 1827 in St Margaret's, Lee Parish, Kent. Through all the recorded censuses from 1841 to 1881 they lived in Manchester, variously at 26 King Street, 46 John Dalton Street, 22 Thomas Street and they ended their days in Chorlton-on-Medlock.

Any information about this Taylor family or about the tailor profession during this period would be most helpful.

LynneOz