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CFH-HAC-Da. Maude Townshend Maltby, b. Sept. 9, 1873 (Geo.E.7, Geo.W.6, Augustus 5, Stephen 4, Benj.3, Dan.2, Wm.1). A lovely golden haired, blue-eyed child--a beautiful self-sacrificing character throughout life; devoted to her family and their "tower of strength."
Educated at Miss Orton and Nicholls School and then at Miss Mary Johnstone's Whitney Avenue School; studied piano with Miss Virginia Johnstone, playing at several of her recitals. A good horsewoman, both in the saddle and on the box. At age of ten she was taking "fancy dancing" with Prof. Loomis. She gave the "Highland Fling" at the enormous Kirmiss held at the New Haven Armory and later at Waterbury, Conn.--both for Charities. Early learned French and German.
During one winter in Dresden, Germany, Miss Maltby played the leading role in an amateur play given at the Caryest theatre there. She was an early member of the Mary Clapp Worcester Chapter, D.A.R., the Alliance Francaise of Yale, and of a small group--a Spanish club. In 1906, my sister and mother went with me to California. In 1908 to Boise, Idaho, and Aug. 1910 up to Vancouver, British Columbia. 1914 to North Vancouver, where mother and sister resided at 910 The Boulevard. She was a member of the North Vancouver Country Club, the Red Cross; president one year of the Victorian Order of Nurses--acting member of the Vancouver Little Theatre, and a member of the Vancouver branch of Canadian Authors.
From the time she was a young girl she had considerable success with both prose and poetry. One of her short stories appeared in "Smart Set" and her poems in various publication. Her death occurred Sept. 26, 1952, at North Vancouver--a long life of beautiful self-sacrificing work for others.
CFH-HAC-Db. Dorothy Lord Maltby, b. May 16, 1877 (Geo.E.7, Geo.W.6, Augustus 5, Stephen 4, Benj.3, Dan.2, Wm.1). Res. 17 Rowe St., New Haven, removed to 10 Howe Street--the C. S. Maltby residence, for a few years, 556 Chapel, opposite the New Green, to 190 Oak Place, which we sold in 1895.
Schools, Miss Cady's kindergarten; Miss Orton and Nicholls, Miss Mary Johnstone's. Piano with Virginia Johnstone, vocal with Miss Lizzie Gaffney. Club Ansantaevae, West Haven. Societies: D.A.R., Mary Clapp Wooster Chapter; Holland Dames, Huguenot Society of New York--invited to be an original member of the "Dorothy Lord", Colonial Dames Chapter, D.A.R.
Commenced genealogical research at age of 14, assisting my mother with "Maltby-Morehouse Pedigrees." Compiled "Maltby-Maltbie History," 1916; compiled this MS.; also various reports. Sec. and Treas. of Maltby Family Association, its originator and organizer. Had charge of the
English research work. Discovered the origin of the Maltby family in England A.D. 1069. Collected thousands of English records in practically most of the counties and shires. Indexed Moulton's (English) large catalogue of old deeds, 340 large pages and 96 pages of index. Assisted Prof. A. E. Verrill with his pedigrees of Verrill-Smith. Did some prefessional research for Paul Brown of Chicago. Much of my early life spent in travel--from Prince Edward Island to California--from Virginia to British Columbia. Two years abroad in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and England. m. Nov. 6, 1906, Clarence Sidney Verrill at Los Angeles, California, son of Prof. Addison Emery Verrill of Yale University and his wife Flora L. Smith. Lived at Barstow, on the Mojave Desert; Soulsbyville, Tuolumne Co., California; Boise, Idaho; Vancouver, B.C., and (1914) North Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
Child: IX.4470. Rae Maltby Verrill, b. Sept. 2, 1907, Soulsbyville, Calif.
Mr. Verrill was Yale Scientific School Mining Engineer; 1906, he was with the Bagdad-Chase Gold Mining Company, previously with John Hayes Hammond at Cripple Creek, Colorado. At Vancouver, with Wayne Darlington (Yale) they opened offices as Consulting Engineers. In 1918, while on a mining examination at Atlin, B.C., returning late in the season on the "S.S. Princess Sophia" in a heavy snow storm they struck on Vanderbilt Reef--every soul of some 376 passengers perished.
Mr. Verrill was a member of The Shaughnesey Golf Club, Burnaby Golf Club, Chamber of Mines. Paternally he descended from the families of Aleson, Allen, Areson, Babb, Bachilor, Barber, Bennett, Browne, Bragg, Bray, Collins, Conant, Cockrill, Cordwell, Davis, Dearborn, Dodge, Durin, Elwell, Endicott, Fernald, Flint, Fuller, Garland, Gibbons, Godfrey, Goodale, Greenoway, Haskell, Harding, Hilborn, Herrick, Hooton, Horton, Humphrey, Jackson, Knapp, Laskin, Leach, Marrian, May, Mercer, Millet, Moses, Newman, Nichols, Patch, Philbrick, Pratley, Rand, Riggs, Salisbury, Sherburne, Shreve, Smart, Smith, Stevens, Southwick, Taylor, Tybbot, Waterhouse, West, Wheeler, Whitrents, Wilkes, Wilson, Woodbury.
Maternally Mr. Verrill descended from the families of Acie, Alcock, Allen, Antrobus, Arnold, Ball, Bartlett, Barton, Barney, Bidfield, Blessing, Bragg, Bridges, Bullard, Dana, Eveletts, Fiske, Foote, Fry, George, Giddings, Goble, Goldstone, Goodridch, Gordon, Grover, Guild, Hackett, Hardy, Harriman, Harrington, Haskell, Holdred, Lawrence, Livermore, Lysson, Merriam, Mousall, Pool, Poore, Sabin, Salway, Sawyer, Shumway, Smith, (Robert) Smith James, Stone, Suan, Toune, Twichell, Waite, Whitridge, Winder, Wood, Woodbury, Woodman, Wright.