Thomas Maybury

Thomas Maybury 1807

County Cork
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Thomas Maybury was born on December 26, 1808, in Bandon(Dunmanway), Cork, Ireland, his father, William, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 34. He married Margaret Cotter( wedding certificate on file in Dublin) and they had Nine children together. They left Ireland with their first child and a goat(fresh milk for the baby)their first child died. They landed at Grosse Ile a quarantine station for the port of Quebec CA and burred their son William on 05/26/1834. They arrive in Lockport New York, USA at a neighbors(from Ireland) home and they stayed a few weeks. They journeyed down the Erie Canal and arrived in Detroit on July 4, 1834, thur western Wayne county where he acquired an 80 acre farm 7/28/1834 near his relatives, the Fords. He worked as a Drayman, he cleared land for timber and brought to the city of Detroit for firewood. He built a home at the corner of Lafayette and 8th street in Detroit. He was also contracted to laying the first Woodward Avenue sewers, building roads and building homes. It was in the parlor of this home that William Ford and Mary Litogot O'Hern( the parents of Henry Ford(Founder Ford Motor Company)) were married on April 25, 1861. He led the Detroit's Knight's Templar when they went to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. At St. Peters Episcopal Church a Memorial window was placed in his honor (requested by Bishop McCaskey) when he died. He died on November 15, 1882,at the age of 73 and is burred at Elmwood Cemetery Detroit, Michigan
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Date of Birth 26th Dec 1807 VIEW SOURCE
Date of Death 25th Nov 1882 VIEW SOURCE
Spouse (First Name/s and Maiden/Surname) Thomas Maybury was born on December 26, 1808, in Bandon(Dunmanway), Cork, Ireland, his father, William, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 34. He married Margaret Cotter( wedding certificate on file in Dublin) and they had Nine children together. They left Ireland with their first child and a goat(fresh milk for the baby)their first child died. They landed at Grosse Ile a quarantine station for the port of Quebec CA and burred their son William on 05/26/1834. They arrive in Lockport New York, USA at a neighbors(from Ireland) home and they stayed a few weeks. They journeyed down the Erie Canal and arrived in Detroit on July 4, 1834, thur western Wayne county where he acquired an 80 acre farm 7/28/1834 near his relatives, the Fords. He worked as a Drayman, he cleared land for timber and brought to the city of Detroit for firewood. He built a home at the corner of Lafayette and 8th street in Detroit. He was also contracted to laying the first Woodward Avenue sewers, building roads and building homes. It was in the parlor of this home that William Ford and Mary Litogot O'Hern( the parents of Henry Ford(Founder Ford Motor Company)) were married on April 25, 1861. He led the Detroit's Knight's Templar when they went to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. At St. Peters Episcopal Church a Memorial window was placed in his honor (requested by Bishop McCaskey) when he died. He died on November 15, 1882,at the age of 73 and is burred at Elmwood Cemetery Detroit, Michigan. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/bad1127.0001.001/577?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=Thomas+Maybury
Mother (First Name/s and Maiden) Elizabeth Webb Maybury Elizabeth Webb was born in 1774 in Ireland. She had three sons and two daughters with William Maybury. William died in 1832. In 1833-34 she packed up the family and an went to Canada ( it was easier to immigrate to a British Empire, than a foreign country)and landed in Montreal or Kingston, they came on the same boat that brought the Henry Ford family for they were cousins (Alice Good is the connection). Then immigrated to the United States, Western Wayne County, MI.She can be found in the Michigan census 1870 living with her son Henry. She died on January 30, 1872, in Detroit, Michigan, at the impressive age of 98, and was buried there. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95732106/obituary-for-elizabeth-maybury-aged/?xid=637
Names of Siblings Margaret Cotter Margaret Cotter was born in 1812 in Ireland, the daughter of Jane and James. She married Thomas Maybury in 1832 in Cork, Ireland. She arrived in Detroit on 7/4/1834. The first log cabin occupied by the family was in Redford Township, known as Springwells, where bands of Indians would stop by for rest and refeshment . Their first Christmas they were going to enjoy a shoulder of Venison,but a flock of turkeys came on the property, Margaret encouraged her husband not to shoot them, fearful that the they were tame and the property of one of their neighbors. Later some hunters came by and said the turkeys were wild. They permited a Christmas Dinner fly away! They had Nine children in 15 years. She died on June 9, 1851, in Detroit, Michigan, probably of Cholera, at the age of 39, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetary there. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/bad1127.0001.001/577?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=Thomas+Maybury
Names of Siblings Catherine Maybury 1805– Thomas Maybury 1808–1882 Henry Maybury 1809–1900 Mary Maybury 1810–1864 William Maybury 1814–1876 VIEW SOURCE
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