Sophia Taylor

Sophia Louisa Taylor (2 July 1847 – 24 January 1930) was a New Zealand suffragist and landowner. Early life She was born Sophia Davis in Kaitaia, Northland, New Zealand in 1847. Her parents were the private tutor John Davis, who worked for the Matthews and Puckey missionary families, and Mary Ann Cryer. In 1855 William Gilbert Puckey dismissed her father from his position and the family consequently moved to Auckland. She married Allan Kerr Taylor, a widower with substantial land holdings who was 15 years her senior, on 8 June 1865. They resided at his farmhouse, Alberton, in Mount Albert. They had six daughters and four sons, born between 1866 and 1888.