PEDIGREE XIV - MALTBY
Maltby of Northallerton, Yorkshire
Arms: Argent on a bend gules three garbs or. Crest: a barley sheaf erect and banded or. Pendant therefrom a bugle horn or. Motto: Sperat infestis.
(There is hope in adversity.”)
For grant of arms see below.
The above crest is given in Fairbairn’s Crests of England and Scotland, under the heading “Maltby – Essex,” with the diference that the bugle horn is argent instead of or.
Mr. Ernest Maltby, from whom most of the following notes were obtained, says he is not sure if the bugle horn comes from the Foxton family – one of his forebears having married a Foxton – or from the Pennycuicks whose crest is a demi forester blowing a bugle and whose motto is “Free for a Blast,” this being the only homage in the old days the head of the family had to pay when the king came inside the barony near Edinburgh, now the property of Sir George Clark, or his descendants.
Burke’s Ben. Armory gives: Pennycook (that Ilk) Ponts’ M. S. Argent a bend azure between 3 hunting horns sable stringed gules. Crest: a man winding a horn. Motto: Free for a blast. “Evidently an old Scottish clan,” writes an English friend. The Foxtons of Cambridgeshire and London have a similar coat-of-arms, viz.: Arms: A chevron (another engrailed) gules between 3 bugle horns sable; garnished ar. Crest: A rose ar. barbed vert.
Note. – Through the Maltby Association we have been able to trace this branch of the family back a generation further than the records which were furnished by Mr. Maltby.
PEDIGREE
I. I. Christopher Maltby of Northallerton, Yorkshire, had wife Mary Foxton. The clerk of the church who consulted the register informs me that there were older Maltby records on the registers and he observed the name of Foxton several times while searching for the birth of Thomas (2) Maltby. A small sum of money would probably obtain records of several generations back of those now known. He is called “deceased in July, 1752, when his son Thomas was baptized.”
Miss Henrietta Maltby writes on him: “Grandfather must have been an elder or an only son, as the family property was in his hands. (These lands were in the wilds of the North Riding, near Ripon, York.)
Note. – Christopher Maltby probably had a younger brother named Thomas, as the clerk informs me that he found the baptism of William, son of Thomas Maltby of the King’s First Regiment of Dragoons; he was bapt. March 23, 1777.
How many children Christopher may have had is not known to me. An old diary (a copy of which Mr. Maltby loaned the compiler), written by Henrietta Maltby, b. in 1788; d. 1876, and the memoir written when she was 76 years of age, states that her father , Thomas (2) “was a posthumous child, many brothers and sisters had preceded him, but one alone of them, Christopher, lived within the scope of my memory. He was much older than his brother Thomas and settled in London.” She speaks of her grandfather Maltby and states that she “always understood that grandmother was by birth a Foxton, and it is from her we have the bugle horn in our arms.” . . . “Tradition speaks of our grandmother as having been very handsome.” Further on in the memoir she speaks of one of the last presents Grandmother Maltby gave her son Thomas was a large silver tankard with the Foxton and other arms on it. Alas, she further states it was so large and out of style she gave it away! She further adds: “Grandmother died about 1795.”
I am inclined to think that one of the sons of Christopher was Richard, as we find the two following items in the West Indies, viz.:
Nevis, W. I., 1800. “West Indian Deeds on the Close Rolls, London, is one of Butler Claxton by Thomas Maltby, Henrietta, his wife; Nevis, 1800, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16.”
The second item reads: “Barbodoes Mercury, W. I. Died. Richard Maltby, Esq., of Bridgetown, Barbadoes within a few days of Sept. 14, 1816. Mrs. Maltby, his w., d. the morning of March 23, 1813.”
The first item refers to Thomas, son of Christopher, and it is possible the second item refers to a brother Richard. However, out of “many children” we can record only the two following:
II. 2. Christopher Maltby, b ------? Settled in London.
II. 3. Thomas Maltby, bapt. in All Saints’ Church, Northallerton, July 26, 1752.
II. 4. Brother d. in 1754, of smallpox.
II. 2. “Christopher Maltby,” writes his neice, “was much older than his brother Thomas. My impression of him is that he was mild and gentlemanly,with an air of much suffering from illness. His wife and her sister, Lady Bannerman, had in youth been so noted for their beauty as to have been called the Roses of Yorkshire.
II. 3. Thomas Maltby, bapt. July 26, 1752, at Northallerton, York, m. at St. Swithin’s London, May 17, 1787, Henrietta Crichton, b. in 1770; d. in 1837. He d. in 1830. She was a dau. of Alderman Crichton.
Note. – This is very evidently the Thomas Maltby and wife, Henrietta, who sign the Nevis, W. I. deed in 1800.
Henrietta Maltby in her memoirs writes: “I believe father’s [Thomas (2)] birthplace was North Allerton, Yorkshire, where it appears his family had been long resident and held the respectable rank of small proprietors, farming their own land.
“That the Maltbys were long ago persons of some consequence in that part of the country may be inferred by an entry in Dugdale’s Monastican of a grant of land made to a convent in that locality by a Sir Thomas de Maltby and Dame ---------, his wife, in order that prayers should be kept on for the benefit of their sols; and Henry,” (her brother?) “when some years ago at the Heralds’ office on other business, profited by the opportunity to make inquiries about the Maltbys of North Allerton. The result of his inquiry was his hearing that though not coming under what it is the fashion of our time to call ‘the untitled nobility of the country.’ theMaltbys were a respectable race of small landed proprietors in Yorkshire – the class, I fancy, whose younger sons formed the ranks of the formidable cross-bowmen of the times of the Plantagenets; and still more redoubtable Ironsides of Cromwell’s more recent period. Men who could equip themselves with horses and arms and were ready to follow fame of fortune wherever their proverbial Yorkshire sagacity told them they were most likely to be found.
“Our father’s family were decided adherents to the Established Church . . . Christmas, Easter and all high festivals were dearly prized by him to the end of his days as recalling the Yule log, the family gatherings round it and all his youthful happiness at those joyful seasons, when like the Vicar of Wakefield’s neighbors, they cracked nuts, toasted each other in home made wines, and sung jovial carols . . . Like all families who have been long settled in a neighborhood the Maltby connections from good and bad marriages and other causes must have included persons holding very different positions in its society.” Thomas Maltby’s widowed mother married the bailiff and Thomas left home for all time when only 14. Mis Henrietta Maltby writes: “In his old age, I have seen him shed tears as when talking of his mother’s loving, fondling ways; of her alarm the first time he was seized with a fainting fit, an ill to which, healthy as he was, he was occasionally subject.”
In 1807 the family resided at Plaiston Lodge, near Bromley, Kent, a very heautiful place of some hundred acres, requiring a staff of twenty-two servants. They removed to Boulogne and thence to Brussels. There Mr. Maltby d., “and Octavia d. in April, 1830.” (Octavia seems to have been her sister.)
Note. – This mention of Brussels leads one to the query as to whether the Mr. Maltby who was British Consul at Brussels from 1840 to 1880.
II. 3. Mr. Thomas Maltby was a very able merchant and private banker of Harley Street, and owned a very fine country seat at Walthanston in Essex. He practically made the house of Walker and also amassed a considerable fortune himself, being credited with having made over £90,000 ($450,000) before he was thirty-two year of age. Later he went into business himself as old Mr. Walker died, and Mr. Maltby not being able to get on with the son, who was then head of the firm. Ill fortune beset him—through no fault of his own, rather a too kindly opinion of the integrity of his associates—and he lost all he had made and died a poor man.
Mr. Maltby had a great friend in Sir Martin Archer Shee, President of the Royal Academy, 1803-5 (I believe), he painted two grand pictures, one of Mr. Maltby, which we reproduce in this book, and one of his wife with their daughter Ellen, then a little girl. Mr. Ernest Maltby says his grandfather was said to have been the seventh son of his father; also that his father was the fifteenth of sixteen children, and a seventh son. I believe Mr. Maltby is buried at Shelton, Notts. He had eight sons and eight daughters.
III. 5. Henrietta Maltby, b. 1788; d. 1876. (Writer of the Memoir when 76 years of age.)
III. 6. Thomas Maltby
III. 7. Mary Anna Maltby
III. 8. Caroline Maltby
III. 9. William Crichton Maltby, b. 1793; d. 1815, unmar.
III. 10. Thomas Maltby, b. 1794; d. 1866.
III. 11. Jane Maltby, m. 1819, W. Robinson and had eight children.
III. 12. Eleanor Maltby
III. 13. Christopher Maltby
III. 14. Frances Maltby
III. 15. Henry Maltby
III. 16. Emily Maltby
III. 17. Henry Maltby
III. 18. Octavia Maltby
III. 19. Edward Maltby, b. 1811.
III. 20. Francis Newcombe Maltby.
III. 10. Thomas Maltby, b. 1794, mar. Emma Jellicoe. They had children:
IV. 21. Thomas Maltby, m. Eva Seck in New Zealand. They have one son, George Crichton, b. 1886.
IV. 22. Henrietta Maltby of New Zealand.
III. 19. Edward Maltby, b. Jan., 1812. He, and others of his brothers, were educated at Winchester College. He entered Winchester in 1826, and went to Haileyburg College (which was in those days the training college for the Endia Civil Service) in 1829, and in 1832 he went out to India. Mr. Maltby m. Jane Pennycuick at Betchworth, Surrey, on October 12, 1843. She was the eldest dau. of Brigadier-General John Pennycuick, K. H. C. B., who, with his second son, Alick, were the heroes of the disastrous (to the British) battle of Chillianwallah in the Punjaub of India during the Second Sikt War, and who fell gloriously on January 15, 1849, when the famous 24th foot (of which regiment Brig.-Gen. Pennycuick was also Colonel) were literally mowed down in ten minutes, Lord Bough having ordered them at the end of a long march to charge the Sikt guns in position. Mr. Ernest Maltby says: “My grandfather and his hero boy—only seventeen years old—died fighting nobly and their grand deaths drew forth that stirring letter in the ‘Times’ of London, England, written in his usual violent style by the well known author of the Peninsular War, Sir William Napier, whose brother, Sir Charles Napier, was a great friend of my grandfather’s and an old comrade. In appreciation of his services my grandmother was given rooms in Hampton Court Palace which she occupied till she died there on August 24th, 1878, and Lord Mayo erected a cross on their monument on the battlefield ‘to record the names of all the brave officers and men who fell on that fatal field.’”
Mr. Edward Maltby had a most serviceable career in the Madras Civil Service, finishing his long term of thirty-two years in 1864, by having occupied for a number of years the highest post in the Service; viz.: Senior Member in Council, and for some months previous to his retirement he was Acting Governor of Madras while Sir William Dennison, the then Governor, was Acting Viceroy of India at Calcutta.
On his retirement Mr. Maltby was offered a knighthood which he declined. He had eleven children, Mr. Ernest Maltby being the youngest and also a seventh son. All but one of the sons were educated at Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, England. Children:
IV. 23. Edward Maltby
IV. 24. Frank Maltby
IV. 25. Ellen Maltby
IV. 26. Mary Maltby
IV. 27. Alec Maltby
IV. 28. Ernest Maltby of North Vancouver.
IV. 29. Arthur Maltby of Bedford, Eng., who has an interesting miniature of Mrs. Christopher Maltby, nee Foxton.
IV. 30.
IV. 31.
IV. 32.
IV. 33.
(These names are not arranged in order of birth as I have not the dates.)
Note. – Two sons are retired Colonels residing in England and two brothers reside in Australia.
III. 20. Francis Newcombe Maltby was given a writership in the East India Co. at the age of 17 and sailed for India in 1830. Mr. Maltby did extremely good work in Madras, where his elder brother had proceeded him and saved the independence of Travancore after the general upset of the mutiny in 1857. His portrait by Eddis hangs in the Rajah of Travancore’s palace at Trivandrum. He m. in 1844, Mary Howard Michael, of an ancient Scotch family. In 1862 Mr. Maltby retired and the family lived at Harrow, where the sons were educated. Children were:
IV. 34. Francis Grant Maltby
IV. 35. Henry Maltby.
IV. 36. Mary Howard Michael Maltby.
IV. 37. Christopher James Maltby.
IV. 28. Ernest N. Maltby resides at North Vancouver, B. C. He was for some years in the India Civil Service. Mr. and Mrs. Maltby have two children:
V. 38. Ronald Maltby.
V. 39. Marjerie Maltby.
Note. – Mr. Ronald Maltby is not yet out of the ‘teens, but he is upholding the honor of the name and has enlisted with the 29th Battalion, Vancouver, B. C., and is on his way to the front to serve his country as his ancestors have served before his. That he may return to fight the smaller battles of everyday life will be the sincere hope of all Maltbys.
IV. 34. Francis Grant Maltby’s son, Ronner (?) Maltby, is with General Goringe (commander of the British relief army) in Mesopotamia and has been wounded.
IV. 37. Christopher James Maltby, b. in 1853, in India, was educated at Harrow, Eng. In early life he was a tea planter in Travancore, having been given a grant of jungle by the Rajah in recognition of his father’s services. Later on he entered the Travancore Civil Service, from which he retired with a pension in 1903, and now resides at Harrow. He married in 1884, Jessie Capper. (Mrs. Maltby’s brothers, all in the army, are well known. Maj. Gen. Sir Thompson Capper, who led the famous 7th Division at Ypres, was killed last October. Her three other brothers are all serving.) Children are:,
V. 40. Mary Dorothy Maltby, b. 1886; m. Sydney R. Wells. They had five sons. Mrs. Wells kindly furnished a copy of the grant of their coat-og-arms, as well as other records of her family for this book.
V. 41. Gladys Maltby, m. Alfred Nayler.
V. 42. Christopher Michael Maltby (called Michael) has been with the fighting forces on the Persian Gulf and is at present on sick leave in India.
V. 43. Capt. Paul Copeland Maltby, 2nd Welch Fusiliers was with the first expeditionary force and went through Mons, the Marne, Aisne, etc. After ten months of trenches near Armentieres he was wounded and on recovering he joined the flying corps and at present is flying “somewhere in France.” He was at one time the youngest Captain in the regulars, being captain at the age of twenty-two years.
V. 44. Audrey Newcombe Maltby.
The following is a copy of the grant of arms to this family which we have called “of North Allerton” but from the wording of this document it is evident that Christopher Maltby originally came from Maltby in Cleveland, and only in his later years resided in North Allerton. This is a very important discovery and will be followed up by this branch of the family.
TO ALL AND SINGULAR
To whom these Presents shall come Sir Isaac Heard, Knight Garter Principal King of Arms and Thomas Lock, Esquire, Clauenceux King of Arms of the South, East and West Parts of England from the River Trent Southwards send greeting:
Whereas, Thomas Maltby of Chatham Square in the City of London and of Bleackheath in the Parish of Lewisham in the County of Kent, Esquire, hath represented unto the Most Noble Charles, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall and Hereditary Marshal of England, that he has always understood and believed that his ancestors come from Maltby in Cleveland in the North Riding of the County of York, but being unable to trace a regular descent from the family of the name whose pedigree was entered at the Geralds Visitation of Yorkshire, made in 1613. He therefore requested the favor of His Grace to issue his warrant for one devising, granting and assigning such armorial ensigns as may be proper to be borne by him and his descendants and by the descendants of his late father, Christopher Maltby, formerly of Maltby aforesaid but last of North Allerton in the County of York, deceased.
And forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by warrant under his Hand and Seal bearing date the nineteenth day of September instant, authorize and direct us to devise, grant and assign such armorial ensigns accordingly. Know ye therefore that we, the said Garter and Clauenceux in pursuance of the consent of the said Earl Marshal and by virtue of the Letters Patent of our several offices to each of the respectively granted under the Great Seal of Great Britain have decided and do by these Presents grant and assign to the said Thomas Maltby, Esquire, the Arms following; that is to say, Argent on a bend gules between two cotises engrailed of the second a bugle horn stringed of the field between two garbs or a crescent for difference. And for the Crest on a wreath of the colours, a garb or banded azure and prendant therefrom a bugle horn sable stringed blue differenced as the Arms, as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted to be borne and used forever hereafter by him, the said Thomas Maltby, Esquire and his descendants and by the descendants of his late father, Christopher Maltby with due and proper differences according to the laws of Arms without the let or interruption of any Person or Persons whatsoever.
In witness whereof, We, the said Garter and Clauenceux Kings of Arms, have to these Presents subscribed our Names and affixed the Seals of our several offices, this twenty-third day of September, in the thirty-ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Breat Britain France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., and in the year of Our Lord, one thousand and seven hundred and ninety-nine
(Signed) THOMAS LOCH,
Clauenceux King of Arms.
(Singed) Isaac Heard,
Garter Principal King of Arms.
Note. – The original motto was: Opes Parit Industria, but Mrs. Wells writes that her family now use the motto: “Industria Parit Opiam.” Mr. Ernest Maltby states the original motto was Copia Parit Industria (Industry bringeth forth riches), but his family now use for their motto: Sperat Infestis (There is hope in adversity).
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES PEDIGREE XIV.
Recent letters from Mrs. Sydney Wells of 12 Linden Road, Bedford, England, give many more items of interest of this branch of the family.
II. 2. Christopher Maltby settled in London when his brother Thomas was but a boy. He m. Miss Sedgwick. They had children, but no information concerning them is available. One of the daughters married an Italian named Gabrielli (London artist probably) and had a large family who lived in much discomfort owing to scanty means.
II. 3. Thomas (2) was but fourteen years old when he started life in London. He was first of all employed in the house of a Mr. Freeling, lead merchant, after which he formed a connection with the firm of Walker. He resided first at Red Bull Wharf, Thames Street, then at Blackheath, having a winter residence at Chatham Place. In 1807, they moved to Plaiston Lodge and afterwards to Walthanson in 1813. In June, 1823 to 1833, they resided at Upper Harley Street.