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James "Jack the Ripper" Maybrick

Born 25 Oct 1838 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Son of William Maybrick and Susannah (Wainwright) Maybrick

Brother of William Maybrick, Michael Maybrick, Alfred Maybrick, Thomas Maybrick and Edwin Maybrick

Husband of Sarah Ann (Robertson) Maybrick — married after 1854 [location unknown]

Husband of Florence Elizabeth (Chandler) Maybrick — married 27 Jul 1881 in Piccadilly, London, England, United Kingdom

Father of James Chandler (Maybrick) Fuller Jr and Gladys Evelyn (Maybrick) Corbyn

Died 11 May 1889 at age 50 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Biography

James Maybrick is Notable.

James was born in 1838. He was the son of William Maybrick and Susannah Wainwright. He passed away in 1889.

James Maybrick was a Liverpool cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of his murder by poisoning, in a sensational trial. The "Aigburth Poisoning" case was widely reported in the press on both sides of the Atlantic. More than a Century after his death, Maybrick was named as a suspect in the notorious Jack the Ripper murders, but critics countered that supporting evidence was hoaxed.^[1]

In Maybrick's case a common-law wife, Sarah Ann Robertson, was identified. Sarah Ann is mentioned in her stepfather's Will as "Sarah Ann Maybrick, wife of James".^[2]

"Suspected to be "Jack the Ripper." James Maybrick was a well known cotton merchant in Liverpool. The mysterious emergence of the so-called Maybrick "Jack The Ripper" journal in 1992 however, immediately thrust him to the forefront of credible Ripper suspects. Regardless of the Diary's authenticity, the story of James Maybrick is remarkable in its own right. Convicted of his murder in 1889, Maybrick's wife, Florence, was sentenced to be hanged. The trial was a horrible travesty of justice. Within two years, the trial's presiding judge died in an insane asylum. Fifteen years later, Florence Elizabeth Maybrick was finally released from prison."^[3]