What happened to George Maynard Lewthwaite?

[Merry]

I'm following up on research I last looked at before the 1901 census was released!

George Maynard Lewthwaite was the son of William Lowther Lewthwaite and his wife Jane Catherine Maynard (sister of my great-grandfather).

GML was registered as John Lewthwaite in 1869 (Kirby Moorside Yorks) and baptised as GML soon after in Whittlesford, Cambs which was where his mother was from.

He is John on the first three census records with his parents (1871 aged 1, 1881 aged 11 and 1891 aged 21, occ engineer in 1891).

In 1896 George Maynard Lewthwaite passed his marine engineering exams in North Shields.

After this I have found no further ref to George being called John.

In 1898 he married Mary (Ann) Eyvell (b 1876 Wallsend, Northumberland).

In 1901 they are together (she is Marion rather than Mary) with their son, Reginald George Lewthwaite aged 1 in Sunderland.

In 1902 George was an executor for his father who died in Cockermouth, Cumberland.

After that George, Mary (Marion) and Reginald vanish. As none of them seem to have died in Eng/Wales I assumed they had moved to another country (would George have had to travel as John as that's what's on his birth cert?).

In Jan 1936 there is a notice in the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette stating Sunderland Police had been asked about the whereabouts of GML as his brother William had died in Australia. William's widow Alice was enquiring. She said GML was last heard of in 1918 in Sunderland.

William Lewthwaite (the brother) was b 1864 in Duxford, Cambs. He appears on the UK census records up until 1901 when he is still single and a house painter. There are no apparent marriages to an Alice in Eng/Wales after that, but there is this entry in NSW BMD:

12073/1910 LEWTHWAITE WILLIAM GREEN ALICE E GLEN INNES

and this death which fits with Alice's search for George:

12098/1935 LEWTHWAITE WILLIAM 69 YRS ROCKWOOD ASYLUM GRANVILLE

So, did George and his family leave the country and come back before 1918 only to leave again? Or have I missed them in 1911? Or was Alice mistaken when she said they were in Sunderland in 1918?

I think George and William were the only siblings to survive into the 20thC so it makes sense that Alice doesn't ask after anyone else.

Can you find George and his family anywhere please?

[kiterunner]

SS Morro Castle sailing from Veracruz to New York Dec 24 1908
George Maynard Lewthwaite age 39, next of kin wife, Wallsend on Tyne, England

SS Laurentic arriving New York, sailing from (blank) 8 Apr 1911
Geo Maynard Lewthwaite 41, Engineer, next of kin wife Marian Lewthwaite, 5 Park View, Wallsend on Tyne

So he didn't need to use the name John for travelling.

[kiterunner]

And from the British Columbia, Canada, death index:

George Maynard Lewthwaite died 16 May 1943 Vancouver, age 74.

[kiterunner]

Also Marian Lewthwaite died 10 Jan 1958 Vancouver, age 81. And Reginald G Lewthwaite died 1 Jan 1972 Vancouver, age 72.

[Merry]

Oh, that's great! Thanks Kate.

I wonder if Alice ever managed to get in touch with George? Somehow I doubt it. It also seems unlikely they were in Sunderland in 1918.

[Merry]

SS Laurentic arriving New York, sailing from (blank) 8 Apr 1911
Geo Maynard Lewthwaite 41, Engineer, next of kin wife Marian Lewthwaite, 5 Park View, Wallsend on Tyne

I've found them in 1911 at this address now, transcribed as Larthwaite!

They had a second son, Roy Eyvell Lewthwaite b 1902.

[Janet]

Got this, Merry? Roy and Irene Lewthwaite pg. 2:
Vancouver land sale

[Merry]

No, I hadn't - thank you Janet

[Janet]

I went back to it just now because it was bothering me that I couldn't date it when I posted that. So I think the answer is September 1927.
Vancouver Bylaw No. 1862

[Merry]

But what about the dates that say 1948?