Margaret May was the second child of Edward and Mary, and was born in 1874, in New Ferry on the Wirral, Cheshire.
In the 1881 census Maggie was aged 6 and lived with her mother, Mary at 29 Violet Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Her father, Edward, was probably away at sea at this time as we know he died in 1882 in China during a voyage on the Yang Wei, a British iron clad vessel sold to the Chinese army.
Also at Violet Street were her siblings, Marian (8), Elizabeth (4), Florence (3), Alfred (1) and Henley (2 months)
For the census of 1891 the family are living at 111 Grey Rock Street, Walton. Her mother, Mary, is a widow, whilst Maggie and sister Marian are working as waitresses. Elizabeth, Henley and Evelyn are scholars.
In 1895 Maggie (21) married Charles Rowland (22), a steam agent living at 7 Everton Crescent, Liverpool. Charles' father was Edward Rowland (deceased), naval captain. Maggie's address is still 111 Grey Rock Street. The couple married at the register Office by licence and the witnesses were Thomas Walker Jnr, Harry Pride and F Rigmaiden (sister Florence?)
Prior to their wedding, Charles had been living in 1901 with his mother Sarah, remarried to William Lewis, civil servant at 159 Islington. He had at least one sister, Amy (22) who was a music teacher.
Charles and Maggie had a daughter, Beatrice M, who was born in 1896.
In the 1901 census neither Charles nor Maggie appear but Beatrice was staying with her maternal grandmother, Mary, at 111 Grey Rock Street. Again in the 1911 census Beatrice is with Mary at 70 Hale Road, Walton.
A descendant of one of Maggie's sisters thinks that Charles Rowland may have worked abroad as a diplomat which would explain why no death record has yet been uncovered.
In 1916 Beatrice marries Charles E V Killey in Liverpool. Charles was born in Birkenhead, his father Thomas Henry, a solicitor's clerk, also born Birkenhead. Charles had at least two siblings, Lilian and Herbert. Charles' mother Annie was born in Jersey on the Channel Islands.
Charles goes on to work as a messenger in 1901 with the family still living on the Wirral. In 1904 Lilian married Charles Marples, a cotton salesman and they lived at New Brighton. They would have been Beatrice's in-laws.
By 1917 Charles Rowland must have died as Maggie remarries to William Eaves, they married on the 1st February at the Fylde Register Office. William was 40, a widow, and Maggie, 39, a widower. William was still a sergeant in the army at the time of his marriage, but gives his peacetime occupation as builder. Both William and Maggie are staying at The Grand Hotel, Blackpool at time of their marriage.
It seems that some time after this that Maggie and William may have had a property on the Isle of Man. The same descendant, mentioned above, spent part of the Second World War there with his aunt and uncle.
On an incoming passenger list from New York arriving in Liverpool in 1937 Maggie May Eaves is listed as travelling from New York on the Franconia. Perhaps, her daughter Beatrice did move there with her husband.
There is a death record for a Maggie Eaves in 1957 in the Fylde.
[ongoing research]
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