Charles John Maycock

• Birth Date           1838
• Death date         

Charles John Maycock was born in Kilkenny Ireland, the son of Nathanial Maycock who had served as a regular soldier in the West Indies and Ireland before retiring to Bath. He is recorded as a Chelsea pensioner.

Details of Charles John Maycock’s education and training are not known, but by 1871 he was living with his brother in Everton being employed as an architectural assistant. In March 1871 he was living in Birkenhead, together with his first wife, but shortly thereafter he moved to Manchester, probably with A P Bell of Liverpool, where they commenced practice together. This partnership between Charles John Maycock and Asahel Pilkington Bell, architects and surveyors, at  6 Bond Street (later Princess Street) Manchester and at Sowerby Bridge, under the style or firm of Maycock and Bell, was dissolved by mutual consent as from 26 November 1874. [London Gazette 15 December 1874 Page 45] after which he worked alone.

Based on census records, Charles Maycock appears to have married three times. In 1876 he married his second wife Mary, daughter of George Gallop of Knutsford and the sister of the Rev R W Gallop, headmaster of Finchley College on 19 October 1876 at Knutsford Parish Church.

Charles John Maycock last appears in the directories of 1895 but has not been found in the 1901 census.

Address
1871-2    Maycock & Bell Collyhurst Chambers 6 Bond Street (Slater's Directory)
1874    Maycock & Bell Collyhurst Chambers 6 Bond Street (Slater's Directory)
1886    Charles John Maycock architect 9 Oxford Street
1891    Charles J Maycock, architect 9 Oxford Street
1895    Charles J Maycock, architect 9 Oxford Road

Residence
1838    Ireland
1851    Henrietta Street Bathwick, Bath Somerset
1861    Church Street, Everton, Liverpool
1871    Birkenhead
1881    7 Rye Street, Chorlton on Medlock (Census)
1891    “Wyndigates” Urmston  (Slater's Directory)
1895    “Wyndigates” Urmston  (Slater's Directory)

Pupils and Assistants
J D Mould  1872-77    Articled to Messrs Maycock and Bell, architects and surveyors of Manchester. 1877-8 Remained with Maycock as assistant and improver
Thomas Thorp FRAS. Articled to Messrs Maycock and Bell, architects and surveyors of Manchester.

Reference    London Gazette 15 December 1874 Page 45