Mabel Mae (Bailey) Pocock (1890 - 1981)

Born 7 May 1890 in Eldon, Wapello, Iowa, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of Charles A Bailey and Mary Etta (Skellenger) Sears

Wife of Frederick Agustin Pocock — married 12 Nov 1917 in Yokahama, Japan

Descendants

Died 20 Feb 1981 at age 90 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Mabel (Bailey) Pocock was born in Iowa.

Mabel Mae Bailey was born in 1890 in Eldon, Iowa to Charles A. Bailey and Mary Etta Skellenger. At some point in her early childhood, she was sent to live with cousins in Chicago, though there is no information about that except for a small newspaper notice that she and her cousin came to visit aunts and uncles. We have no census information for her before 1930.

Marriage

She married Fred A. Pocock in Yokohama, Japan in 1917 and went to live in Shanghai with him while he was there on business. She gave birth to my father, Agustin James Pocock, while in Shanghai, on 10 Nov 1922. They moved back to the US shortly thereafter.

She passed away in 1981 outside Philadelphia in a nursing home.^[1]

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Information about her youth is missing. I cannot find any census records for her before 1917. I think she was sent to live with relatives in Chicago where she did wind up.

Sources

1. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #91232250 (accessed 19 April 2024)
   Memorial page for Mabel Mae Bailey Pocock (7 May 1890-20 Feb 1981), citing West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (plot: Sanctuary of Meditation 18); Maintained by Pocock-248 on WikiTree.com (contributor 48770379).

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal 23andMe test match between Gina (Pocock) Jarvi and Margaret Carter, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Luther Skellenger and Romenta Pasco, the great great grandparents of both Gina (Pocock) Jarvi and Margaret Carter. Predicted relationship from 23andMe: 3rd cousins, based on sharing 16.7 cM cM (0.78% X-Chromosome DNA ~3.12%% DNA shared) across 4 segments.
• "Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KY2M-2TQ : 1 March 2021), Mabel Pocock, 1920; citing Seattle, King, Washington, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1383, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,454,985.
• Passenger List: "Canada, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1865-1935"
  Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Series: RG 76-C; Roll: T-14875
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1263 #867133 (accessed 14 June 2022)
  Vessel: Empress of Asia; Gender: Female; Birth Country: USA; Birth Year: abt 1890; Arrival Port: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Departure Port: Yokohama, Japan; Arrival Date: 21 Jun 1920; Name: Mabel Pocock; Arrival Age: 30.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS52-CT8 : accessed 30 November 2021), Mabel B Pocock in household of Fred Pocock, Chicago (Districts 1751-1976), Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1878, sheet 7A, line 21, family 134, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 494; FHL microfilm 2,340,229.
• 1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census"
  United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1745; Sheet Number: 6; Enumeration District: 51-788
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #243299389 (accessed 14 June 2022)
  Mabel B Pocock (59), widowed mother, in household of Agustine J Pocock (27) in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Born in Iowa.
• Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier, Saturday, August 1st, 1908, "Local News Items" p. 5.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tuesday, February 24th, 1981, "Death Notices" 4B, p. 16.