Mr Frank Hubert Maybery
(Courtesy of Hannah Dobrowolska, UK)
Frank Hubert Maybery, was born in the district of St Mathew's, Ipswich on the
30th November 1875 1 the son of Valentine William Maybery (the Congregational
Minister of Burlington Road, Ipswich) and Clara Susan Maybery, née Sinnock. He
had four siblings: Annie and Alfred (both older, born in Stoke Sub Ham, Somerset),
Arnold (born in Ipswich, Suffolk) and Winifred (born in Bristol). Frank's parents
appear to have both died prior to 1881.
On the 10th June 1907 Frank married Frances Ella Hadfield 2 at
the Greenacres Chapel, Oldham, Lancashire.
Frank Maybery and his brothers Alfred and Arnold, and sisters Annie and Winifred
emigrated to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, together with Mrs Eliza Gibbons
their aunt who looked after the young Maybery children after their parents died
3. The brothers went into partnership as Real Estate Agents in Moose
Jaw, then a rapidly growing city, where they specialised in selling farm land.
All the family were active members of St Andrews Presbyterian Church and the brothers are remembered as men of "religious habit, definite and clear in thought and deed".
Frank's wife Ella was much troubled with a serious eye complaint, because of
which the family decided to return to England, where she could get up to date
medical treatment, so in 1911 Frank brought his wife and their two daughters,
Joyce Noel and Ruth Enid back to England. After settling them at St Paul's Road,
Weston-Super-Mare 4 Frank returned to Canada to settle up his affairs
5, boarding the Titanic at Southamption as a second
class passenger (ticket number 239059, £16). He was joined at Queenstown by
a family friend, The Rev. Charles Kirkland.
Maybery died in the sinking, his body, if recovered, was never identified. His and Ella's third daughter, Nancy Frances was born early in December that year.
Notes
1. This date is from family sources, another source gives the date as 13 November
1872 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. The 1875 date is corroborated by the 1881
census.
2. Ella Hadfield was born on the 10th November 1880 in Fajawe, Uvea, in the District
of the British Consulate at Noumea. Her birth was registered in Noumea on the
22nd November 1901, by letter from her father James Arthur Hadfield, this was
done to make sure Ella was registered as a British citizen, as the Loyalty Islands
at that time, were administered by the French. Ella's father was a Congregational
Missionary based on Lifu, one of the Loyalty Islands in the Pacific. Her mother
was Emma Foster Hadfield. Ella Maybery died at Caradon, Winscombe, Somerset on
the 7th December 1968, aged 88 years old.
3. It was with Eliza and her husband William Gibbons at their home on Asley Hill,
Bristol that the siblings were living at the time of the 1881 census.
4. Other sources give the address as 1 Whitecross Road, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
5. According to another source, in January 1912 Frank's brother Alfred had been
elected Mayor of Moose Jaw and called upon Frank to come back to Canada to look
after the business while he tended to his civic duties.
References
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
Marriages, births, deaths and injuries that have occurred on board during the
voyage (PRO London, BT 100/259-260)
Alan Hustak (1999) Titanic: The Canadian Story. Véhicule Press.
ISBN 1 55065 113 7
British Census 1881
Contributors
Steve Coombes, UK
Hannah, Dobrowolska, UK
Ruth Fox, UK (née Maybery)
Alan Hustak, Canada
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