Florence Maybrick

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick 1862 1941 was a former American citizen who spent fourteen years in prison in England after being convicted of murdering her considerably older English husband. Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler on September 3, 1862 in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of William George Chandler, a partner in the banking firm of St. John Powers and Company. He was also a former Mayor of Mobile. By now the stepdaughter of Baron Adolph von Roques, a cavalry officer in the Eighth Currassier Regiment of the German Army, she married cotton broker James Maybrick at St. James'' Church, Piccadilly in London on July 27, 1881, settling with him in Battlecrease House, Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool. They had met on board ship as they were both travelling to Great Britain, Florence travelling with her mother, the Baroness von Roques. Other passengers were either amused or shocked by the sight of the young woman spending so much time alone in the company of Maybrick, who was 23 years her senior.