Her parents were the private tutor John Davis, who worked for the Matthews and Puckey missionary families, and Mary Ann Cryer.

[1] She married Allan Kerr Taylor, a widower with substantial land holdings who was 15 years her senior, on 8 June 1865.

[3] The family was actively engaged in St Luke's Church, following the Anglican faith,[1] whilst Allan Taylor's father and three half brothers were all Presbyterian.

[2] St Luke's Church was registered with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 7 April 1983 as a Category II heritage building with registration number 681.

[9] Flora Daisy (21 December 1875 – 15 September 1885) died aged nine, of a "brain fever", which may have been a form of meningitis.

[12] Lancelot Everard (1 June 1888 – 6 August 1955) served with the Auckland Mounted Rifles in the Middle East during World War I.

She sold investments and land to pay death duties and sustain the household, but the family was unable to fully maintain its comfortable lifestyle.

Taylor continued to be politically active on a range of issues, both speaking and writing, as late as the end of World War I.

[1] From 1908, she ended her earlier custom of entertaining guests at Alberton and lived quietly there with her three unmarried daughters and her son Hector until his death in 1914.

[1] After her death on 24 January 1930, her three unmarried daughters, Winifred, Millicent and Muriel, took care of the estate for the rest of their lives.