The Currituck County NC Taylor Family Research of the late Ruth Rickert

Ruth Rickert was a descendant of the Currituck County Taylors, as am I. She and I worked together and compared notes on our Taylor ancestors. Ruth left a book - the cover which is at the left - of her Taylor ancestors. It is roughly fifty pages, is indexed - and a portion of it is her conjecture about the earlier Taylors in Currituck County,, with rich detail, we well as the recent generations of her family.

She also did a descendants chart of the earliest Taylors trying to piece the Taylors together - given that there are missing deed records for a generation, and an 1842 Courthouse fire that took marriage records from the earlier days. On this page, I am posting first her chart - and then the pages of her book - so that Currituck researchers can benefit from her research. Ruth passed away in 2014 at the age of 96.

Ruth Rickert and I worked together on our Taylor Family research. She had a working draft of a family relationship chart, trying to determine the Taylor family relationships in early Currituck County based on the records available. She might have made improvements, and even had a successor chart at some point. But I am posting the copy that I have. It is a large chart, so I scanned it in two parts - the upper and lower portions - and have posted it just below. The chart is undated, but my scan of it was dated 2009.

The first section of her book, posted below the chart, contains her take on the early Currituck Taylor relationships, and gives life to the chart. The book is indexed, so if a researcher desires to know more about the individual names here, it is possible that some of them are in Ruths book and can be found through the index. I have a long text document with all Currituck County Taylor references in records before the civil war. I shared it with Ruth, and am happy to share it with any interested researcher.

The book “The Taylor Family of Currituck County, North Carolina”, by Ruth Rickert and dated 2010 - is posted below. As mentioned the book starts with the very first Taylors in Currituck County and tries to determine the descendancy of Taylors in Currituck over the next centuries. The first ten pages appear to be pre-civil war Taylors in Currituck County - as are the Taylors included in pp. 39-43 at the back of the book. In the middle are the post-civil war Taylors and Taylor descendants that link the ancentry to Ruth up to her immediate family. The book is indexed at the end, which can get the researcher to any pre-civil war Taylor in the book that might be of interest. There are notes at the back that indicate other researchers that served as resources to Ruth, of which I am one.

I am referred to as well in the section on Reuben Taylor near the end. This book was written before I ascertained that Charles Taylor and Cortney Nicholson were not the parents of my g-g-grandmother Caroline Taylor (Clawson - Foreman), but the only error in that regard is the number of children for Charles Taylor and his wife. This book states eight, but it is either six or seven, depending on the parentage of Albertis.

I am posting it to make sure that Ruth’s work is as widely shared as possible. The cover of the book is posted at the head of this page, and the entire book, beginning with the first page of the book posted immediately below, is on this web page.