People Australia

FrankTaylor, 1930

New South Wales Police Gazette, 21 May 1930, p 5

Frank Stanesby (or Stansby) Taylor, also known as Tayler and Wallis-Tayler (1891?-1967), seaman, stevedore and trade union official

Birth: possibly on 24 October 1891 at London, Middlesex, registered as Francis Stanesby Wallis Tayler, son of Alexander James Wallis-Taylor (1852-1934), a civil engineer, born in Galway, Ireland, and Florence Anne, née Parker (1865-1922), born at Ilkeston, Nottingham, England. Marriages: (1) had a relationship at Sydney, New South Wales, with Mary Riley, formerly Hollis also known as Mary Ann Byrnes. They had one son, born in April 1914. (2) In the early 1920s he was the de facto husband of native-born Mary Hughes, née Raisbeck, (1872-1923), a nurse and abortionist. (3) 28 September 1956 at the Registrar General’s Office, Sydney, as Frank Stanesby Wallis-Tayler, widower, to a divorcée Ngaio Georgina, née Thomas, late Harris (1925-?), a telephonist, born at Auckland, New Zealand. [He claimed on his marriage registration that he had been born in 1899 at Coyne, Ireland]. Death: 11 April 1967 in his usual residence at Dock Road, Birchgrove, Sydney, NSW. Religion: Anglican. 

• Educated at Margate College and Merchant Taylors near the River Thames, London. Apprenticed in the Port Line as Fourth Officer. Gained numerous qualifications. On leaving the sea he worked in costing and estimating for two years. Later worked in journalism and reporting.
• Established a reputation for correspondence and reports and became confidential secretary to the NSW politician, William Henry Lambert in the early 1920s.
• Worked as a waterside worker for fifteen years including as a listman, marksman, watchman, winchman and foreman stevedore.
• He was possibly the Frank Stanley Wallace Taylor, who claimed he was born in Ireland on 24 October 1893 and arrived in NSW in 1912 aboard the Port Pirie, who was sentenced at Sydney Quarter Sessions on 21 January 1914 to ten years in prison on fifteen charges of burglary. He was released from Goulburn Gaol on 13 March 1920.
• In 1922 Taylor was arrested and charged with armed robbery but acquitted. In August the following year he was arrested and accused of aiding and abetting murder, but the charge was withdrawn in October.
• In July 1927 the same Frank Taylor, who claimed in court to have worked as secretary for W. H. Lambert, was sentenced at Darlinghurst, Sydney, to three years penal servitude on five charges of having feloniously received stolen property. He was released on license on 20 January 1930. Rearrested in June that year he was sentenced to six months hard labour for being in a closed yard for unlawful purposes.
• He may have been the Frank Tayler who joined the Australian Foremen Stevedores’ Association (AFSA) about 1939. He was elected NSW branch secretary of the AFSA in about 1947. Held office until his death. Was sometime federal secretary.
• The death of Frank Stansby Tayler, union secretary and widower, was registered by his son Alexander Francis Tayler (1914-1981). Cause of death: cerebral thrombosis (months), arteriosclerosis (years), gangrene right leg and foot (days).

Sources
Foreman Stevedores Review, June-July 1967, September-October 1967.