Saylor Hawkins Nationality

{1} (1755-1784) was born in Middlesex, Eng., on Aug. 6, 1755, probably to John and Katherine Saylor of the Vicar of Fincham

He was a son of William and Janet Saylor, nee Saylor (or Swanland), and succeeded as Vicar of Fincham on Nov. 23, 1785, a position he resigned on Nov. 12, 1793, resigned on Nov. 11, 1793, and died of "dropsy on Feb. 23, 1808, in the Parish of St. Giles" (i.e., about 3 miles northeast of Fincham), near Laundon, Bucks, on March 18, 1808.

According to William B. Houdon's A dictionary of English historical surnames 1706-1832, published in 1961, he derived his surname from a distant estate called Swaidwray near Westminster, Middlesex, where he was born on Aug. 11, 1783, and from which he presumably went to Fincham as a small child.

Hapgood's Index of national records includes the following entries:

Fincham, Edward Saylor, who died: 1638. He was a burgess in Fincham; and sometime chaplain to the parishes of St. Lawrence, St. Ann's, Fincham, and Frick, in the diocese of Lichfield.

Fincham, Edward Saylor, aged: unknown. An old resident in Fincham church, and to whom the Parish register of Fincham's churchyard, and also the post-rider in London at the time of his decease, are dated.

Fincham, Alonzo Saylor, aged: unknown; resident in Fincham parish, and left England in 1727, and died: Nov. 11, 1770.

Fincham, Alonzo Saylor, aged: unknown. A resident in Fincham parish, and to whom the parish register of Fincham's churchyard, also the post rider in London, are dated in 1720 and 1722-23.

Fincham, Alonzo Saylor, borth: unknown. A resident in Fincham, and to whom the records of the parishes of St. Anne, St.