James was born on 24 March 1882 to James Maybrick and Florence Maybrick and his birth was registered[1][2]during the second quarter of 1882 in the district of Toxteth Park, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
James was baptised[3]on 29 May 1882 in the parish of Halewood and Tarbock, Lancashire. At the time of the ceremony the family are noted as residing in Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America and his father James Maybrick works as a Merchant.
James Maybrick Jr. and Gladys Evelyn were taken in by a Dr. Charles Chinner Fuller and his wife Gertrude after their father died and their mother was convicted. James Jr. changed his surname to Fuller before he died in Canada in 1911. He was a mining engineer in British Columbia, Canada. While at the Le Roi Gold Mine he died when he drank some cyanide apparently thinking it was just a glass of water. He was 29.[4]
James Chandler Fuller, son of James Maybrick and Florence Chandler Maybrick. was born in 1882. After his mother's sensational trial in 1889 and subsequent incarceration, following his father's suspicious death, he and his sister were raised by Dr. Charles Chinner Fuller and his wife Gertrude. He eventually moved to Canada to work in the mines as a mining engineer in British Columbia.
James died on 10 April 1911, aged 29, of what was thought to have been accidental ingestion of cyanide and was laid to rest[5]in Plot HORNE1-2-01-015-0013, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
James Maybrick attained public attention as the reputed author of the controversial "Diary of Jack the Ripper", which surfaced in the early 1990's.
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Murder Mystery and My Family, Season 9, Episode 1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B096NPP7G9/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s9
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