Biography:
Mary Ann Maulkin
1840 –26/11/1925
Mary Ann Maulkin
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Plot 493 Mary Ann Maulkin (1840-1925)
Mary Ann was born in 1840, the daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Maulkin and the older sister of Emma Bates who is buried in this cemetery in plot 508. She was baptised 18 October 1840 at St Botolph’s Aldgate.
Both her parents had been born in Aldgate in the City of London and her father was a butcher
in Harrow Alley, St Botolph, Aldgate, one of the little courts that led south off Aldgate (High) Street. Now it is called Little Somerset Street, but in 1772 Daniel Defoe mentioned Harrow Alley in his Journal of the Plague Year “…from Harrow Alley, a place full of poor people, most of them belonging to the butchers, or to employment depending on the butchery…”
In the 18th and early 19th century the City of London charged a tariff for driving cattle across the square mile, which meant that a butchery trade grew up in Aldgate and Whitechapel, slaughtering cattle to supply Smithfield meat market. Harrow Alley used to be known as Blood Alley with as many as twenty butchers shops and an abattoir located there.
Mary Ann would have recognised the one remaining building from that time, the tiny Still & Star pub, drawn by Gustave Doré in 1869 for London: a pilgrimage. A fascinating post in the Spitalfields Life blog has a photograph of a Harrow Alley butcher’s shop and the Doré engraving superimposed on the pub as it is now. [https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/17/the-still-star-is-saved/]
In 1861 Mary Ann, aged twenty one, was working as a general servant for tailor Edward Pearce, his wife, their three children and a boarder who was an ivory carver. The family lived in Woburn Buildings, St Pancras. Now renamed Woburn Walk and Duke’s Road, the street ran along two sides of the New St Pancras churchyard between Euston Road and Upper Woburn Place, It is described in British History Online [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/p106#fnnc1] and a section of the beautiful original shops and houses still remains in Woburn Walk.
It has not been possible to trace Mary Ann between this census and her death in Berkhamsted, presumably at the home of her brother in law Josiah Bates. The unusual surname appears to have defeated indexers, and probably also census enumerators.
Mary Ann died 26th November 1925. In 1945 Harriet Amy Bates, the sister of Josiah, was laid to rest here with her.
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Plot 493 Mary Ann Maulkin (1840-1925)
Mary Ann was born in 1840, the daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Maulkin and the older sister of Emma Bates who is buried in this cemetery in plot 508. She was baptised 18 October 1840 at St Botolph’s Aldgate.
Both her parents had been born in Aldgate in the City of London and her father was a butcher
in Harrow Alley, St Botolph, Aldgate, one of the little courts that led south off Aldgate (High) Street. Now it is called Little Somerset Street, but in 1772 Daniel Defoe mentioned Harrow Alley in his Journal of the Plague Year “…from Harrow Alley, a place full of poor people, most of them belonging to the butchers, or to employment depending on the butchery…”
In the 18th and early 19th century the City of London charged a tariff for driving cattle across the square mile, which meant that a butchery trade grew up in Aldgate and Whitechapel, slaughtering cattle to supply Smithfield meat market. Harrow Alley used to be known as Blood Alley with as many as twenty butchers shops and an abattoir located there.
Mary Ann would have recognised the one remaining building from that time, the tiny Still & Star pub, drawn by Gustave Doré in 1869 for London: a pilgrimage. A fascinating post in the Spitalfields Life blog has a photograph of a Harrow Alley butcher’s shop and the Doré engraving superimposed on the pub as it is now. [https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/17/the-still-star-is-saved/]
In 1861 Mary Ann, aged twenty one, was working as a general servant for tailor Edward Pearce, his wife, their three children and a boarder who was an ivory carver. The family lived in Woburn Buildings, St Pancras. Now renamed Woburn Walk and Duke’s Road, the street ran along two sides of the New St Pancras churchyard between Euston Road and Upper Woburn Place, It is described in British History Online [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/p106#fnnc1] and a section of the beautiful original shops and houses still remains in Woburn Walk.
It has not been possible to trace Mary Ann between this census and her death in Berkhamsted, presumably at the home of her brother in law Josiah Bates. The unusual surname appears to have defeated indexers, and probably also census enumerators.
Mary Ann died 26th November 1925. In 1945 Harriet Amy Bates, the sister of Josiah, was laid to rest here with her.
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