PEDIGREE XVII - MALTBY
Maltby – Leeds, Yorkshire.
This family owned o coat-of-arms which was on a fine old seal ring belonging to Mr. William Lassey Maltby’s father, and which was lost; unfortunately little interest was taken in such things and the present generation is unable to describe the arms, through Mr. Maltby says he is quite sure it was not the sheaves of wheat.
PEDIGREE
I. 1. Samuel Maltby, of Leeds, Yorkshire, master plumber. He seems to have been quite well off, juding from the fact that a piece of property which should have gone to his son Samuel – by the entail not being cut off – was valued at some £8000 sterling, which of course was but a part of his property.
II. 2. Samuel Maltby was b. at Leeds, Yorks. Mr. W. L. Maltby says: “I may as well admit that I have an idea that father was somewhat of a dare-devil, and it was probably his reason for leaving Yorkshire and moving to Derby, where I was born. Father had two sisters married, but I was too young to know much about them, as we emigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1855, when I was thirteen years old. . . . On mothers’s side there is a legend attached to the name, true or not I do not know. At the battle of Naseby, a child was found on the field; picked up by the soldiers, they began betting upon its sex. The losers to have the privilege of naming it. It was a boy. They swore a good round oath it should be a Lassie anyway, and that is why the name Lassey cam to be. They are so proud of it (absurd) that they dub all their children with that name – all our family have got the Lassey tacked on to us . . . Father was always bragging about his cousin, the Bishop, but I was not born that way and did not care a continental for the past.”
Note. – It is probable that Mr. Maltby descends from Samuel Maltby, bapt. Feb. 23, 1755, at Shelton, Notts. See Pedigree of Maltby of Orston who was a son of Samuel, b. in 1725. The name Samuel seems to come down well in this branch of the family. I think the above Samuel (2) had seven children.
III. 3.. William Lassey Maltby, b. in 1842 in Derby, England. Emigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1855. Mr. Maltby has one daughter by his first wife. He has been very successful in business. Resides at 309 St. James Street, Montreal. Child:
IV. Daughter.
III. 4. Herbert Lassey Maltby of the Eas. Dept. C. P. R. R., Montreal.
III. 5. C. Lassey Maltby of Medland, Ont. Has 10 children.
III. 4. Mr. Herbert L. Maltby wrote, May 13, 1909: “The Yorkshire Maltbys are the fountainhead of that name or family and their descendants. If you would take up the pedigree of Bishop Maltby of London, you would likely get enlightenment as to the branch of our family both in United States and India. . . . “ (See V. 68, Col. Samuel Maltby, b. 1787; Col. in E. India Co., Orston Maltby Ped.) “My brother W. L. Maltby, who is nine years older that I am holds the coat-of-arms which you show on your booklet.”
Note. -- Mr. W. L. Maltby states: “I had an old seal ring of my father’s, I unfortunately lost it, twenty years ago, but it certainly was not the wheat sheaves.”
H. L. Maltby writes: “I had pedigrees, etc., but unfortunately I lost them in a fire.”
Mr. Maltby has been twice married and has twenty children. His eldest boy, if living, would be 39 years old. His youngest child was b. in Jan. (?) 1908.
Note. – One of Mr. Maltby’s has been living in Vancouver for the last four years. He enlisted, when was war broke out, with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Vancouver and when last heard from was at the front in the 16th Battalion, 3rd Brigade. May he return unharmed when this frightful war is over.
There is little doubt but that this branch of the family connect with the pedigree of the Maltbys of Orston.