Frederick Charles Augustus Mayger was born on 27 June 1877 the eldest of the five children of George Augustus Mayger (1855-1901) and Mary Jane Mayger née Blatchford (1858-1895). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1877 in Maidstone registration office, Kent. He was baptised on 26 August 1877 in Maidstone, Kent.
In the 1881 census he is shown as living at 11 Chillington Street, Maidstone, with his parents and sister, Julia Ellen Mayger (1879-1968), together with a female boarder who worked at a paper mill. His father was recorded as a painter.
When the 1891 census was undertaken he was described as a scholar living at 32 Peel Street, Maidstone, with his parents and four siblings: Julia Ellen Mayger, Alice Harriett Mayger (1882-1969), Rose Caroline Mayger (1884-1957) and Clara Elizabeth Mayger (1888-1964). His father was now recorded as a painter & paperhanger.
He was described as an unmarried French polisher in the 1901 census, boarding at 15c Canterbury Road, Willesden, Middlesex, the family home of Edward Thomas Cook & Ann Rebecca Cook. On 28 July 1901 he married Susanna Scott (1873-1946) at Holy Trinity Church, Kilburn, Middlesex, where the marriage register confirms that he was a bachelor and French polisher living at 15c Canterbury Road, Willesden whilst his wife was shown as a spinster also residing at the same address. The witnesses to the marriage were his landlord & wife, Edward & Ann Cook.
When he completed his 1911 census return form he described himself as a French polisher in the furniture trade, living in two rooms at 36 Gayton Road, Hampstead, NW London, with his wife and their child, Elsie Rebecca Mayger (1903-1990). Their other child, Ada Mayger was born on 20 May 1912 in the Hampstead registration district. Electoral registers in 1912 confirm he was still listed at 86 Gayton Road, Hampstead and was occupying two unfurnished rooms on the 2nd floor of the property.
During World War One he served as a Private in the Northumberland Fusiliers and although the war memorial on New Court Buildings shows him as Mayger F.C.A. and serving in their 6th Battalion, his medal records show he was in the regiment's 2nd/7th Battalion. His service number initially was 7/6971 but in 1917 it was renumbered to 292591. He was discharged from the army into the Class Z Reserve on 4 September 1919.
Electoral registers from 1914 to 1930 show him registered at 4 New Buildings, Flask Walk, Hampstead and from 1932 onwards at 31 Cumbrian Gardens, London, NW2.
The 1939 England and Wales Register lists him and his wife at 31 Cumbrian Gardens, Hendon, showing him as both a French polisher and an Air Raid Precautions Warden, whilst his wife was described as being on unpaid domestic duties.
His wife died, aged 73 years, on 4 June 1946 in St Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1. He was granted administration of her estate on 2 October 1946 and her effects totalled £466-6s-1d.
Probate records confirm that he lived at 31 Cumbrian Gardens, Pennine Drive, Hendon Way, London, NW2 and that he died, aged 77 years, on 17 November 1954 at the North Western Hospital, Hampstead, London, NW3. Probate was granted to his elder daughter, Elsie Rebecca Mayger, a spinster, on 7 January 1955 and his effects totalled £7,104-10s-7d.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
