The Maggs Family

Ann (Maggs) Dow

Baptism: 13 March 1786, in Dunwich, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Married: Robert Dow on 12 October 1804 in Walberswick, Suffolk, England
One of the witnesses to this marriage was Ann's sister, Sarah Maggs.

Robert died on 8 April 1833, at Woolwich, Kent.
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p78 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1833 April 8th Died at Woolwich, my brother-in-law, Robt Dow—1834 April 9th at her Mother’s Ann my Sister and Wife of the sd Robert Dow.

Children: Death: 9 April 1834
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p66 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1827 Sep. 10th Sister Ann Dow from Woolwich came to Mother’s at Walberswick—& returned Jany following—1831 July 22 Brother in law Robert Dow called upon me on his way to Yarmouth—died April 8th 1833. On the 15th July following my Sister Ann came home to Mothers—and died on the 9th April 1834. being a Yr & day after her Husband
p78
1833 April 8th Died at Woolwich, my brother-in-law, Robt Dow—1834 April 9th at her Mother’s Ann my Sister and Wife of the sd Robert Dow.

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James Maggs

Birth: 1793, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 13 October 1793, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Burial: 22 February 1794, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

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James Maggs

Birth: 9 February 1797, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 12 February 1797, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Married: Elizabeth Roberts on 16 November 1818, in St Andrews, Walberswick, Suffolk, England
The marriage was performed by Rev. Reardley Norton and witnessed by William Maggs and Mary Banks (James's brother and sister)
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p54 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1818 Novr 16 married at Walberswick Church, by the Revd Eardley Norton in the presence of William and Mary Ann Banks, Myself to Elizabeth, only daughter of Thos and Ann Roberts, Wangford

Elizabeth was born in 1797, in Blyford, Suffolk, the only daughter of Thomas Roberts, a farmer in Wangford and Ann. Elizabeth died in 1865 in Blything district, Suffolk, aged 68, and was buried on 28 March 1865 in St Edmund burial ground, Southwold, Suffolk.

Census:
1841: South End, Southwold, Suffolk
1851: High Street, Southwold, Suffolk
1861: Park Lane, Southwold, Suffolk

Children: Occupation: Schoolmaster; Auctioneer (1851, 1861)
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p10 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
Introduction...
  Up to 1837, to judge by his occupation as given in the parish registers when his children were baptised, he regarded himself principally as a schoolmaster. Thereafter, although he did not immediately get rid of his establishment on South Green, he became an auctioneer, entering into partnership in 1840 with Daniel Fulcher, builder, later to be mayor of Southwold.

House in Southwold where James Maggs lived
House at 20 Park Lane, Southwold, where James Maggs lived. The plaque reads "James Maggs, Diarist, 1797-1890. Lived Here"
photo by sleepymyf posted on flickr.com
Notes:
When James was two, his father died and in his father's will James is left a double share of the inheritance "on account of his being lame". When he was seven, James attended a school run by Thomas Tuthill in Wenhaston, three miles away, and at fourteen he was apprenticed for three years to Tuthill as an usher. After that he became a clerk for James Jermyn, of Reydon Cottage near Southwold, who was working on a dictionary of synonyms, epithets and phrases derived from the English poets. In 1816 James was appointed to a post at Dedham Grammar School and later that year moved to the Grey Coat Hospital School in Westminster. The next year James established his own school in Walberswick and in 1818 he opened a school in Southwold. James Maggs became in Southwold: coroner, vestry clerk, salt officer, bailiff of the Court Leet, surveyor of the highways, auctioneer, secretary of the New medical Dispensary etc. and left behind a comprehensive diary with many entries about Southwold affairs, which has been published as The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982).

The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 pp57-8 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
        - Self -
James (May 14th 1782) Son of Thos and Ann Maggs. Born Feb 9th 1797 at the “Blue Anchor” Pub:House Walberswick 1804 was put to School to a Mr Tuthill, Wenhaston
1811 was Articled to Mr T as Usher for 3 yrs
1814 Apr 25th went as Clerk or Transcriber to Mr Jermyn, Southwold
1816 Took a Teacher’s situation in the Grammar School Dedham—afterwards St Margaret’s Hospital Green Coat School Westminster
In 1817 I opened a School in Walberswick
In 1818 in Southwold which I carried on ’till the 8th day of Apr 1841 I also conducted the Sunday School from Oct 2d 1822 to Oct 11th 1840
1818 Nov 16th I married to Elizabeth the only daughter of Thos and Ann Roberts of Wangford (at Walberswick by the Revd Eardley Norton) by whom I had 5 Sons and 7 Daughters 1819 Apr 6 went to reside in a house of Mr Saml Laws of Southwold 1821 Apr 6th hired a house of Mr E. Child’s
1822 Feb 24th Hired a House of Mr Jermyn and opened a Grocer’s Shop which I carried on 'till May 16th 1829 when I went into a house I built adjoining
Jany 1833 declined the Shop see May 20th
1823 I was elected Coroner for this Borough which Office I held ’till 31 Dec 1835 when this Town was disfranchised of that Office under the Municipal Reform Act 5 & 6 Wm IV-75 Sep 9th See Apr 15th 1840 Apr 8 1841
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1823 Dec. 6th Self (Maggs) [sic] elected Coroner for this Borough in the place of Mr. Charles Covell, resigned, continued in this office till 31st Dec. 1835 when it was abolished under the Municipal Corporation Act 5 & 6 W.IV Sep. 9/35
(1838 June 22 received from this Corporation the sum of 5£s as a compensation for the loss of Office, Coroner under the Municipal Bill And Recorder Jas. Jermyn £63. See Treasurer's Abstract 1837 to 1838.)

The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 pp8-9 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
Introduction...
  His first home was a house that he rented from Samuel Laws, the glazier at South End. This possessed what is still—across marsh, quay and river—one of the most attractive views of Walberswick, the village in which he had grown up and which he had just left for good. ...
  His first child, named William after his seafaring elder brother was born in his first Southwold home but with the coming of a second child, Thomas, bearing the name of his long-dead grandfather, Maggs moved, in 1821, to a house a little further away. This belonged to Edmund Child, the ironsmith. Another year and Maggs's means were sufficient to allow him to take up residence in the High Street. Here he rented from Jermyn, his old master, a cottage that later carried, and still does, the sign of the ‘King's Head’. Ever energetic and enterprising, he started a grocer's shop here. In 1829 he ‘built and moved into a house next door’. This was in fact a repair and rebuilding of a cottage he had bought for £105 the year before. These premises included
the schoolroom essential for Maggs’s preferred calling, one of several such simple structures to be found in the borough.
  There are further indications of increasing prosperity and of a growing family. He eventually fathered five boys and seven girls, of whom half died in infancy or early childhood. In 1833, he hired from William Crisp, the maltster, a house on South Green, the most beautiful situation in the town, for his family, the school and the seasonal visitors. It was a residence of some quality, having recently been occupied by Jonathan Gooding, the erudite Town Clerk. ... In [1841], now in business on his own, he moved back into the High Street, renting a place opposite the Manor House from Robert Mills, a Norwich merchant who came of a Southwold family. ...
  At the end of 1851 Maggs took a seven-year lease of a house hired from John Cracknell, trustee for Mary Ann Chaston. He was now back on South Green and living in some style, for the late Mrs Chaston had been heavily assessed for the poor rate. However he may soon have regretted his commitment to his new home when shortly afterwards, in 1854, his ‘old friend’ William Prettyman left Maggs 20 Park Lane in his will. When the South Green tenancy was up he immediately moved into his inheritance, which was to be his home for the remainder of his long life.

James was named an executor of the will of John Crisp, of Walberswick, in 1834.
Walberswick Wills p7
Also I do constitute make and ordain in addition to Mary my Wife, and William my Son, for my executor, Mr. James Maggs, Schoolmaster, of Southwold in the County of Suffolk, of this my last Will and Testament

James was named the sole beneficiary and executor in the will of William Prettyman, dated 31 January 1852
This is the last Will and Testament of me William Prettyman of Southwold in the County of Suffolk yeoman whereas it has recently pleased the almighty to remove from this world by death my wife and only son and I am left without relations or family connections so far as I have any knowledge thereof and whereas I have for several years past received many kindnesses and much attention from Mr James Maggs of Southwold aforesaid Assistant Overseer of the Parish and Auctioneer and at whose Cost in fact I am at present maintained and supported And being confined to my bed from infirmities attending upon old age having passed my ninetieth year I believe and being weak in body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding do make this my solemn Will and in order to make sense of the considerate kindness shown to me by the said James Maggs do hereby devise all my real Estate situate in Southwold aforesaid and wheresoever elsewhere situate and being in England and bequeath all my personal Estate unto and to the use of him the said James Maggs his heirs executors and administrators absolutely for ever But as to Estates vested in me upon trust or by way of Mortgage subject to the equities affecting the same respectively And I subject my said real Estate to the Mortgage Debt or Debts secured thereon and charge the same real Estate and also my personal Estate with all my other just debts and my funeral and testamentary expenses And I appoint the said James Maggs sole Executor of this my Will hereby revoking all other Wills In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty two.

Death: 3 March 1890, in Southwold, Suffolk, England, aged 93

Headstone of James Maggs, Elizabeth (Roberts) Maggs and Mary Ann Maggs
Headstone of James Maggs, Elizabeth (Roberts) Maggs and Mary Ann Maggs in St Edmund churchyard, Southwold, Suffolk
photo © Gravestone Photographic Resource on gravestonephotos.com
Burial: 7 March 1890, in St Edmund churchyard, Southwold, Suffolk, England.
The inscription reads:
JAMES MAGGS
Born A.D. 1797
Died A.D. 1890  
ELIZABETH
his wife
Born A.D. 1797
Died A.D. 1865
MARYANN
Born A.D. 1829
Died A.D. 1852

Will:
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p15 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
Introduction...
  There is no record of any will or administration at Somerset House but in 1868, three years after his wife’s death, he at least drafted a testament. He made Jonathan Robert Gooding, solicitor and Town Clerk and Charles Durrant, his son-in-law, his executors. Their first duty was to put a tombstone in Southwold churchyard to his ‘old friend’ and benefactor William Prettyman and his wife Mary, in whose house he now lived.
  After a number of small personal bequests his property was to be auctioned, the proceeds to be shared amongst his daughters, Eliza Tooke, Sarah Hunt and Ellen Durrant equally but Maria, the unmarried housekeeper at Park Lane received a double share. Perhaps the little lame boy at Walberswick, who was also left a double inheritance, was in James's mind when he made provision for the daughter who had ‘stumbled’.
  The lesser bequests are of interest. His grandson, Thomas Durrant, was to be given his watch and ‘attachments’. The youngest son of Benjamin Howard Carter, the local builder, was to get Maggs’s copy of Barclay’s Dictionary while Henry Johnson Debney, the grocer and draper upon South Green, was left
17th century weather vane mentioned in the will of James Maggs
17th century weather vane mentioned in the will of James Maggs
"The history of this object spans much of the story of Southwold. The initials are probably those of Borough Chamberlains. Borough business in those times was done at the Market Cross which is where this vane was first installed. In 1809 the Market Cross was demolished and proceedings transferred to the Guildhall on Bartholomew Green. This was itself demolished in 1815 as later was its replacement. The National School was built on the site and this, too, has gone. Our object survived these changes, eventually becoming the property of Dr John Sutherland, a surgeon who became the town's third mayor in 1841. He gave it to the renowned Southwold diarist, auctioneer and schoolmaster, James Maggs (1797-1890). Maggs, a well-known collector of antiques, evidently valued the surgeon's gift for, in his draft will, he specifically refers to it, bequeathing it to a local grocer. However, the draft was never implemented and, on his death, aged 93, the vane, like his diary itself, passed into the keeping of his aristocratic neighbour, Eustace Grubbe. Grubbe was Mayor of Southwold from 1879 to 1891 and a substantial community benefactor. The object was donated to the museum by his executors."
photo from A History of the World at bbc.co.uk
‘my old weather vane, dated 1661’. This had originally stood upon the old cross in the Market Place and had been given to Maggs by Sutherland. ‘My journal of remarkable events and also my Diary of deaths’ was to be passed on to Gooding. This draft was never carried into effect, let alone proved. The Town Clerk died before the diarist and to this day there is no monument to the Prettymans in Southwold churchyard.

Census:
1841: South End, Southwold, Suffolk
1851: High Street, Southwold, Suffolk
1861: Park Lane, Southwold, Suffolk
1871: Southwold, Suffolk
1881: Park Lane, Southwold, Suffolk

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Maria Maggs

Birth: 1790, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 18 July 1790, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Burial: 19 November 1790, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

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Mary (Maggs, Banks) Coote

Birth: 1784, in Dunwich, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 11 July 1784, in Dunwich, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Married (1st): John Banks on 23 June 1803 in Walberswick, Suffolk, England
John is recorded in the marriage license, dated 23 June 1803, as a widower, of the parish of Bramfield, Suffolk. Mary Maggs is recorded as aged eighteen, a minor, of the parish of Walberswick, marrying with the consent of her mother, Ann Maggs. The license is for the marriage to occur only in the Parish Church of Walberswick.

John was a widowed tailor, from Bramfield, when he married Mary Maggs. He was married firstly to Edna, who was buried in Bramfield in 1800. He was passed tenancy of the Blue Anchor from his mother-in-law, Ann (Snell) Funnell in 1812. John drowned on 24 October 1824, in a well at Benhall at night, on his way back from Wickham Market.
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p60 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1824 Oct. 25th. I went to Benhall respecting the following melancholy accident. On Sunday the 24th inst: a person was discovered in a Well near Some Cottages—and upon taking it out it was found to be the body of Mr. John Banks of the “Blue Anchor” Public House, Walberswick, dec. had been to Wickham Market and from not having been seen or heard of since the Evening of the Thursday previous, no doubt but it was when the accident occurred. As it also appeared in evidence at the Inquest that a Noise was observed in the evening of Thursday by the rattling of the Well gear, but thought nothing of, and also on this same evening his speaking to a person near Benhall, he should call at a Cottage close by—near to this Cottage was the Well, and adjoining it a Stile—and no doubt from the darkness of the evening he mistook the Well for the Stile and was the cause of this melancholy catastrophe. At the Inquest a Verdict was given—“Accidental death”. The Body was conveyed to Walberswick and Interred. Deceased was the Husband of my Sister Mary, who gave birth to a daughter “Sarah Ann” the 7th Augt previous—her youngest being a Son at that time in his 20th year.

Children: Married (2nd): Edward Coote on 23 November 1831 in Brundish, Suffolk, England
Edward was born in 1782/3, in Oveington, Norfolk. He was previously married and four Coote children - William, Elizabeth, Mary Ann and Charles, between the ages of 15 and 30 are recorded with Edward and Mary in the 1841 census. Edward was a farmer.
Census:
1841: Street, Brundish, Suffolk
1851: Brundish Street, Brundish, Suffolk

Occupation: After the death of her first husband in 1824, Mary became the landlord of the Blue Anchor, which had previously been in the hands of her father, then her mother, then her husband, until 1 March 1827 when William Easey became its landlord.

Notes: After giving up the "Blue Anchor" in 1827, Mary moved to Yarmounth, where she lived at the "Bear" inn in South Town.
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p6 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
Introduction ...
  Mary Banks lost her husband in 1824 when he fell into a well at Benhall on his way back home from Wickham Market. Three years later she was forced to give up the ‘Blue Anchor’ and moved to Yarmouth to live at the ‘Bear’ in South Town. She soon returned to join her mother at Walberswick. From there in a short while she went to Brundish to become housekeeper to Edward Cootes, a widowed farmer. In 1831 she married her employer and three years later her mother came to join her.
pp65-6
1827 March 1st Sale by Auction of Sister Mary Bank’s effects et: at “Blue Anchor” Public House, Walberswick. May 5th She went to live at Yarmouth at the “Bear” Public House—left in the Decemb following to reside at Walberswick with Mother—short time after went to keep the House of Mr. Cotes of Brundish, Farmer—to whom on 23 Novemb 1831 she was married. Mr. William Easey succeeded my Sister to the “Blue Anchor” on the 1st March 1827 and continued it ’till Oct 11 1844 when Mr. Isaac Crisp took the sd House.
My Father & Mother took this Public House in the year 1787—my Father died 31 Aug 1799 Mother Mar 6/48 ag 97 and my Mother continued it ’till the year 1812 Mar 1st when she was succeeded by Mr. John Banks, husband of
sister Mary’s who kept it ’till 1st March 1827.

Death: 18 August 1859, at the home of her son-in-law, Amos Barber, in Southwold, Suffolk, England, aged 75
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p60 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
(1859 Augt 10. Died at her Son-in-laws Amos Barber’s, Southwold, My Sister Mary—relict of John Banks & Edw Cootes agd 75. Interred at Walberswick)

Buried: 15 August 1859, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Census:
1841: Street, Brundish, Suffolk
1851: Brundish Street, Brundish, Suffolk

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Sarah (Maggs) Funnell

Birth: 1788, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 17 April 1788, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Married: Thomas Funnell on 24 August 1806 in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Children: Death: 1885, in Paddington district, Middlesex, England, aged 97

Census & Addresses:
1821: Midhurst, Sussex   (baptism record of daughter Selina)
1841: High Street, Alverstoke, Hampshire
1851: High Street, Marylebone, Middlesex
1861: High Street, Marylebone, Middlesex
1881: Kilburn Park Road, Paddington, Middlesex

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Thomas Maggs

Birth: 1753/4

Married: Ann Snell on 14 May 1782 in St Edmund, Southwold, Suffolk, England
Both Thomas and Ann are recorded as being of Southwold. The marriage was witnessed by David Carman, master of the Ceres of Southwold, and Rhoda Davis. In the register, Thomas's surname is recorded as Naggs.
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p41 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1782 May 14th Married at Southwold Church by the Revd Thomas Potter, Thomas Maggs to Ann Snell. In the presence of D Carman & Rhoda Davis
  Father died Aug 31 1799 agd 45   Mother died March 6th 1848 in her 98 yr

Children:
The Blue Anchor
The Blue Anchor in Walberswick, Suffolk, in 1816
from a watercolor in the possession of the editor published in The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p6 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
The Anchor at Walberswick
The Anchor at Walberswick in recent times
photo from anchoratwalberswick.com
Occupation: Innkeeper ("innholder") of the Blue Anchor in Walberswick.
This establishment was dismantled in 1927 and reassembled on the opposite side of the street and further to the west. Now called the Anchor at Walberswick, it is still in operation today.

Death: 30 or 31 August 1799, aged 45

Buried: Walberswick churchyard, Suffolk, England, section N 10.1

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Thomas Maggs

Birth: 1792, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 9 September 1792, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Burial: 20 January 1793, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

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Thomas Maggs

Birth: 1794, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 9 January 1795, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Burial: 16 June 1795, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

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Thomas Maggs

Birth: 1796, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 31 January 1796, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Burial: 5 May 1796, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

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William Maggs

Birth: 1787, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 13 May 1787, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Death: 1787

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William Maggs

Birth: 1787, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 24 May 1789, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Burial: 12 June 1789, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

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William Maggs

Birth: 1791, at the Blue Anchor, Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Baptism: 31 July 1791, in Walberswick, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Maggs

Mother: Ann (Snell) Maggs

Married: Susannah Palmer on 23 September 1812.
The marriage was witnessed by John Banks (William's brother-in-law).
The marriage license was issued on 22 September 1812. William Maggs is recorded as a bachelor, aged over 21 years. He is a mariner, of Walberswick, Suffolk. Susannah Palmer is recorded as a single woman, aged over 21 years, of Walberswick.

Susannah was born in 1793/4, in Lowestoft, Suffolk. She died on 1 September 1854, in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and was buried on 4 September 1854 in St Margaret, Lowestoft, at which time she is described as aged 62, the widow of William Maggs.

The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p6 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
Introduction...
  William Maggs, the other witness at the diarist’s wedding, was drowned eight years later with the other members of the crew of the brig ‘Eleanor’ on the Happisburgh sands as she made her way home from Newcastle to Yarmouth. This tragedy, as was common in those days, reduced his wife and children to a pitiable state. Thomas, the son and potential breadwinner died young at Lowestoft in 1837 and Honor, his sister, at Kirkley the following year. Three years after this, their mother and another sister, Susan, were living in straitened circumstances in Chapel Road; Lowestoft. They were still in the port ten years later when the younger woman was working as a washerwoman. Another three years and the widow was dead. Pitiful appeals for help for the family were sent to Maggs in Southwold but their effect is not known.
p63:
Letter     Lowestoft Sept. 1/54
Mr. Maggs / Sir I am requested by Susan Maggs yr Niece to inform you her poor Mother is dead she was taken in a fit on Sunday continued till this morning when she died the poor girl is now & has been for months in a dying state her circumstances are deplorable she says her Mother has a picture that caused some disagreeable feelings between you I think that you have not been on friendly terms but she hopes you will assist her a little in her helpless state both in body & mind for tho’ her Mother was poor she was her all & now she has no friend left. Her sister is married & got 3 little children & is not able to do anything for her she is really a most afflicted young woman worthy the kindness of anyone who is kindly disposed She wishes you to write by return of Post or send by Goldsmith to Mrs Haword & she will attend to it directly. Susan’s direction is Mrs Maggs Herring Fishery Lowestoft. Pray write to her poor Girl.

Census:
1841: Chapel Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk
1851: Lowestoft, Suffolk

Children: Occupation: Mariner
In 1818, William was master of the Damsel of Yarmouth.
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p54 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1818 August I took May 18th an excursion to Newcastle in the brig “Harmony” Thos Bokenham and returned in the “Damsel” of Yarmouth, my brother William, Master.

Notes: William was a witness at the wedding of his brother, James, on 16 November 1818 (The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p54)

Death: 1 November 1826, at sea, aboard the Gleaner, lost on the Haisborough Sands, Norfolk, England.
The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1848 p64 (ed. Alan Bottomley, 1982)
1826 Jany 21st the last time I saw my brother William. Nov. 1st following he and 7 more in the Brig “Gleaner” of Yarmouth from Newcastle so thence, is supposed were all lost upon Hasbro’ Sands as several of the stores of the ship as also many articles belonging to him and the Crew were washed on shore.

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