Thomas Maybury

Summary

Thomas Maybury was born on December 26, 1808, in Bandon(Dunmanway), Cork, Ireland, his father, William, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 34. He married Margaret Cotter( wedding certificate on file in Dublin) and they had Nine children together. They left Ireland with their first child and a goat(fresh milk for the baby)their first child died. They landed at Grosse Ile a quarantine station for the port of Quebec CA and burred their son William on 05/26/1834. They arrive in Lockport New York, USA at a neighbors(from Ireland) home and they stayed a few weeks. They journeyed down the Erie Canal and arrived in Detroit on July 4, 1834, thur western Wayne county where he acquired an 80 acre farm 7/28/1834 near his relatives, the Fords. He worked as a Drayman, he cleared land for timber and brought to the city of Detroit for firewood. He built a home at the corner of Lafayette and 8th street in Detroit. He was also contracted to laying the first Woodward Avenue sewers, building roads and building homes. It was in the parlor of this home that William Ford and Mary Litogot O'Hern( the parents of Henry Ford(Founder Ford Motor Company)) were married on April 25, 1861. He led the Detroit's Knight's Templar when they went to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. At St. Peters Episcopal Church a Memorial window was placed in his honor (requested by Bishop McCaskey) when he died. He died on November 15, 1882,at the age of 73 and is burred at Elmwood Cemetery Detroit, Michigan