Thomas May (1819 - 1873)
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Thomas May was born in 1819 in Montreal, Canada, the son of John May. He died in 1873 in Hamburg, Germany.  He married Ida Wolff, daughter of Moritz Wolff and Fanny Schwabe.  Ida was born in 1833 in Hamburg, Germany, and died in 1877 in Hamburg.

The  children of Thomas and Ida are:

  1. ALICE
  2. FLORENCE
  3. ELEANOR
  4. SYDNEY
  5. GUSTAV
  6. FRANK
  7. EVELYN

We know little about the families of these children apart from the descendants of Eleanor, Sydney and Evelyn. These three have their own pages.  We will briefly summarize what little we know of what happened to the others on this page. 

1. Alice May married a Max Wolff (whether a relative we do not know). They had three children:

  1. ADELE
  2. ELLA
  3. FRITZ

Whether there are descendants of these Wolff children we do not know.

2. Florence May married Walter Pocock. They lived in Patterson, New Jersey where he died on 24 June 1901. (The source for this is Clara May's diary). The family has been found on the US census. Walter was a medical doctor.

  The children of Florence and Walter are:
  1. GLADYS
  2. SYDNEY born in 1916.
  3. CECIL
     

3. SYDNEY MAY married Tessy Philpot. Apart from this we only have their children.

  1. RUBY
  2. FRANK
  3. DORIS

4. EVELYN MAY married Gustav Louis Schwabe.

5. GUSTAV MAY married AIMEE TALBOT April 15, 1896 in Montreal, Canada. They had one child:

  1. LESLIE ROBERT MAY b. February 04, 1897.

6. FRANK MAY. He married MARY. The children of FRANK MAY and MARY are:

  1. GRETCHEN MAY
  2. BEATRICE MAY.
  3. ELSA MAY.