Victoria Adelia Maybee

1868 - 1944  (76 years)

• Name	Victoria Adelia Maybee
  Birth	2 Aug 1868	Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1871	Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	4, Eli William Maybee, M, 46, M, Ontario, E Methodist, German, Farmer 5, Jane Maybee, F, 42, M, Ontario, E Methodist, German 6, William Jarvis Maybee, M, 19, Ontario, E Methodist, German, Farmer, attended school 7, Edith Mellisa Maybee, F, 17, Ontario, E Methodist, German, attended school 8, Deborah Ann Maybee, F, 11, Ontario, E Methodist, German, attended school 9, Saphrona Jane Maybee, F, 5, Ontario, E Methodist, German 10, Victoria Adna Maybee, F, 2, Ontario, E Methodist, German Tenant prt Lot 29, Concession 6, 11 ¼ acres, 3 houses, 8 barns, 3 carriages, 3 wagons, 2 ploughs, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 swine
  Census	1881	Hope Township, Durham County, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Eli Maybee, M, M, 56, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German, R. Farmer Jane Maybee, F, M, 52, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German Debora A. Maybee, F, 21, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German Sophronia J. Maybee, F, 15, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German, at school Victora A. Maybee, F, 12, Ontario, Canadian Methodist, German, at school
  Census	18 Apr 1891	Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Eli Maybee, M, 64, Mar, Head, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist, gentleman Jane Maybee, F, 60, Mar, Wife, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist Sophronia Maybee, F, 25, Daughter, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist Victoria Maybee, F, 22, Daughter, Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, Methodist
  Residence	1899	95 Gerrard Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	with two daughters
  Census	31 Mar 1901	Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Jane Maybee, F W, Head, W, Jan 25 1829, 72, Ontario rural, English, Canadian, Methodist Sephonna Maybee, F, W, Daughter, S, Mar 25 1867, 34, Ontario rural, English, Canadian, Methodist Victoria Maybee, F, W, Daughter, S, Aug 2 1868, 32, Ontario rural, English, Canadian, Methodist
  Census	Jun 1911	Charles Street, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	19 Maybee Jane, F, Head, W, May 1831, 80, Ontario, English, Methodist, Income 20 Maybee Sophronia, F, Daughter, S, Aug 1866, 44, Ontario, English, Methodist, Income 21 Maybee Victoria, F, Daughter, S, Apr 1864, 42, Ontario, English, Methodist, Income
  Census	4 Jun 1921	Baldwin Street, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Jane Maybee, owns a 7 room brick house, Head, F, Wid, 92, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in Ontario, Canadian Nationality, English origin, Methodist, Income Sophronia Jane Hains, Daughter, F, Wid, 55, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in Ontario, Canadian Nationality, English origin, Methodist, Income Victoria Adelia Maybee, Daughter, F, S, 52, born in Ontario, father born in Ontario, mother born in Ontario, Canadian Nationality, English origin, Methodist, Income
  Anecdote	25 Jan 1929	Port Hope, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	STILL HALE AND HEARTY, LOCAL LADY CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY Mrs. Eli Maybee, Baldwin Street, Is Tendered Reception On Centennial Anniversary Today Three Children Present For Occasion And Many Congratulatory Messages Received Today, Friday, January 25th, a disagreeable winter's day which seems of little importance to many, will always be remembered by Mrs. Eli Maybee, [23] Baldwin Street, Port Hope, who is celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth. A fitting reception was held today and many friends called to congratulate her. Friends from a distance, or those who could not call to visit here, sent congratulatory messages by telegraph, telephone and letter, so, with those who came and the others who sent gifts and messages, Mrs. Maybee was well remembered by a large circle of friends. Mrs. Maybee is still able to be around her home but is handicapped by failing sight. She had a severe attack of la grippe two years ago which weakened her considerably but she has gained her strength to a great extent so that she is remarkably well for her advanced years. Mrs. Maybee was born in Prince Edward County in 1829 and came here a bride of sixteen in 1845, and resided in Hamilton Township, just half a mile east of Noble Brown's corner for eighteen years, the first nine in a log house, and then in a frame they built. Just previous to coming to Port Hope they lived at Dale for 5 years. Mrs. Maybee went to school with the late Senator Wm Kerr and his brother John and was a lifelong friend of his. The late Senator Kerr, father of Crown Attorney Kerr of Cobourg, also came from Prince Edward County. THREE CHILDREN SURVIVE Mrs. Maybee has a great line of descendants, some fifty of the fifth generation. Out of the original family, only three survive. Mr. Maybee passed away in 1894 and only three out of eight children remain. They are Dr W J Maybee of Richmond, VA, Mrs. W J Harns and Miss Victoria, the youngest daughter, at home. Besides the three children, there are 11 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren. She has been a Methodist and took an active interest in the church. She was a regular attendant at church services until the last twelve years. Mrs. Maybee takes much interest in the papers read to her and especially enjoyed our article taken out of the Daily Guide of fifty years ago. Eighty-three years ago a little country church, in the county of Prince Edward, was the scene of a gathering of friends and neighbours who had driven in from all over the countryside to attend the wedding of the sixteen-year-old daughter of George Snider, prosperous farmer respected citizen, and descendant of the purest United Empire Loyalist stock in the country. It was a popular wedding, for not only was the bride one of the most comely belles of the district, but the groom, despite the fact he hailed all the way from the little settlement 60 miles away, which was coming to be known as Port Hope, was well known in Prince Edward County on account of frequent visits to the home of George Snider. The bride of that occasion is Mrs. Eli W Maybee, who is still hale and hearty, and in possession of all her faculties, she is celebrating her 100th birthday today. She lives in Port Hope within a few miles of the farm to which young Eli Maybee took her as a bride so many years ago. With her are the three surviving members of the family of eight she reared from childhood. Her son, William Jarvis Maybee, the eldest of the family had come all the way from Virginia to be present at the celebration, and to visit again, as he has done year after year, his two sisters, Jesse [Sophrona] and Victoria. Victoria, who is still Miss Maybee, and Jesse [Sophrona], now Mrs. Jesse Harns, have remained with their mother through her advancing years. Ten years ago they congratulated her on her ninetieth birthday. They did not expect to celebrate many more anniversaries then, but today they invited the Guide to return again next year to celebrate the first anniversary in her new century. Mrs. Maybee has aged little in the last ten years. She is still up and about the house and her shoulders are bowed only ever so little beneath the burden of the years. She is indeed a remarkable woman. Smiling and good-natured, she greets her guests, talks and laughs with them. They do not have to shout at her as she hears perfectly. Mrs. Maybee's son, W J, as he is called at home, told that his mother was a great-grandmother for he himself is the grandfather of his daughter's two children in Virginia where he has been state superintendent of child welfare work for the past 28 years. The Maybee family is old UEL stock, Mrs. Maybee's husband, who died more than 30 years ago, being the great-grandchild of Tobias Maybee, who fought in the Revolutionary war in the thirteen states on the loyalist side, and afterwards migrated to Ontario when the States declared their independence of the mother country. The Maybee family before that was the descendant of an older family which forsook France at the time of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre and settled in Holland, later coming with other Huguenots to New Amsterdam, now New York.
  Witness-Obituary	7 Oct 1930	Toronto, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Celebrating her 101st birthday only last January, Mrs Eli Maybee, Port Hope, passed away on Saturday morning at the residence of Miss Victoria Maybee, her youngest daughter. Born in Prince Edward County in 1829, she came to Port Hope as a bride of sixteen in 1845, living in the Hamilton township for eighteen years. Before coming to Port Hope she lived at Dale for five years. Three of Mrs Maybee's eight children survive: Dr W. J. Mabee of Richmond, Va; Mrs W. J. Harns and Miss Victoria at home. Eleven grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren also survive. Mr Maybee passed away in 1891.
  Reference Number	6259
  Death	24 Sep 1944	Ontario Hospital, Whitby, Ontario County, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  Person ID	I6227	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Eli Watson Maybee,   b. 19 Jan 1824, Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada d. 16 Jun 1894, Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Snider,   b. 22 Jan 1828, Ameliasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada d. 4 Oct 1930, Walton Street, Port Hope, Durham County, Ontario, Canada (Age 102 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 Oct 1845	Ameliasburgh Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada   [12, 13]
  	Eli Walter Mabee, of Hamilton and Jane Snider of Ameliasburgh, License. Witnesses: Andrew Snider, William C. Snider. Rev. William McFadden, Wesleyan Methodist Minister
  Family ID	F1562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S241] Barbara Miller, Emails from Barbara Millar; Compiler Address: millarbje@sympatico.ca, 1901 census. [S12] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, MMabie/Maybee/Mabee/Mabey Family Records in Canada, Canadian Censuses; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/canadaindex.htm, Hamilton Township, Northumberland West, Ontario, ED 4, Page 15, Family 57. [S409] 1881 Census of Canada; Url: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/index-e.html, Hope, Durham East, Ontario, Dist 127, Sub Dist A Div 1, Page 24, Family 126. [S241] Barbara Miller, Emails from Barbara Millar; Compiler Address: millarbje@sympatico.ca, Port Hope, Ontario Cenus 1891, T-6332 3 59 16-19 333. [S8] Douglas Cameron Mabee, MS 177 - Douglas Cameron Mabee; Number: 177. [S187] The Automated Genealogy 1901 Census of Canada; Url: http://automatedgenealogy.com/, Ontario, Durham East (#55), Port Hope, e-6 Page 11, family 136, Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6464. [S343] 1911 Census of Canada Indexing Project; Url: http://automatedgenealogy.com/, Ontario / Durham / 50 Port Hope / page 9 / family 96. [S468] 1921 Canadian Census; Url: ancestry.com, RG 31, Folder 54, Port Hope, Durham District, Ontario, Page 6. [S128] Information printed in the Maybee Society Communicator, #72. Thanks to Martha Rachel Clayton-Rodrigues; from the Evening Guide Friday January 25,1929. [S241] Barbara Miller, Emails from Barbara Millar; Compiler Address: millarbje@sympatico.ca, Toronto Star,October 7, 1930. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1946. [S16] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie/Mabee/Maybee Records fromUpper Canada (10 June 1791 - 10 Feb 1841), Canada West (10 Feb 1841 - 1 Jul 1867), Ontario (post 1 Jul 1867); Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/canada/UpperCanadaChronology.htm, Prince Edward District Marriages (LDS Film 1030054). [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1936.