The Mapplebeck Family - Further Connections
E-mail from Charles Tilbury 2018 What little I do know about them is based on what Valentine told me, namely that your Claye great-grandmother, Annie (1847-1882) - eldest sister of my greatgrandfather - married William Batty Mapplebeck, in about 1870. Their daughter was your grandmother (Agnes) Jane. She had three siblings: - Her sister Ethel made an unfortunate marriage to one William Hobart Bird ("for some reason he was very proud of the Hobart"), by all accounts he gave her a pretty rough time, so much so that she threw herself onto a railway line in (I think) 1918. Valentine said that one of the few occasions he saw his mother cry was when she heard that news. Gallingly, they had no children, so Bird kept all Ethel's money, which I believe passed to his own children or stepchildren: somehow I believe there was a connection between them and Kim Philby. - William Harold Mapplebeck, an accountant (?), who had several children, some of whom emigrated to Canada, as well a...