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Grand Uncle Ralph and His “Fancy Lady”

10/2/2023

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​Grand Uncle Ralph and His “Fancy Lady”

​First published in the Rootes Journal in September 2014  by Jennifer Rowe

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Ralph Thomas Scott (RAN)
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Maud Mabey (The Fancy Lady)
The name Fancy Lady came into being about 1805, it was one of many descriptions for the ladies of the night, but mainly used when referring to a man’s mistress.
Since I was a child wherever my mother, Gladys took me to Crow’s Nest, North Sydney, NSW she would tell me about her Uncle Ralph’s Maud. Mum’s vivid memories of Uncle Ralph are not so much of him being a career Naval Officer but of a stunningly beautiful lady, referred to as his Fancy Lady, whom he met whilst in England. I heard this story until not long before Mum died in December 2010 at just over 100 years of age.

Maud lived in a flat above the Post Office at Crow's Nest, NSW. Gladys remembers when her mother would take them to Crow's Nest and Ralph's two children, Freddie and Rosie (Maud Melba), would lean out the window and wave to them. They all knew they were cousins.



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A Most Welcome Surprise

10/1/2023

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​A Most Welcome Surprise
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Regarding My - Grand Uncle Ralph and His “Fancy Lady” Story
​First published in the Rootes Journal in September 2014
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​by Jennifer Rowe

The Maybee Society in the USA had copied the article onto their website and a descendant of Maud Taylor’s in Dorset, Caroline Jay Ranger was drawn to it by the “Fancy Lady”.
 
As Caroline read it, all the names her mother had mentioned were there and she realised the “Fancy Lady” Ada “Maud” Mabey nee Taylor, was most probably her Great Grandmother.
 
Previously we had no knowledge of Maud’s first child. Frank Charles Edward Taylor, illegitimate, was born on 26 May 1902, at 19 James Street, Southampton, Hampshire and had been handed over to John Daly and his wife Eliza Alexandra Emms and raised by them. Frank later changed his name to Daly, but not until 2nd September 1949.

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