I could speculate for several lines over the details of the story of May and Christina Taylor, buried together in the Alexandra Cemetery. This time, the newspapers can speak for them:
Alexandra Cemetery.
A little girl named May Taylor (two years of age) died at Alexandra on Wednesday night as the result of severe burns. The child's clothes caught fire, and before anything could be done she was severely burned about the body. -Otago Daily Times, 14/8/1903
Dunedin, This Day.
Christine Taylor, a married woman suffering from nervous breakdown, hanged herself at Alexandra South. -Waikato Argus, 4/1/1910.
Christine Taylor, a married woman suffering from nervous breakdown, hanged herself at Alexandra South. -Waikato Argus, 4/1/1910.
And that's all there is to say, except - was there a Mr Taylor? Alexander Taylor's name features in an "In Memoriam" inserted in local papers, one of her "sorrowing parents" in 1904 and 1905. I have found no further reference to him.
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