This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chandler, Holbrook, Maybrick Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iUI.2ACIB/1986 Message Board Post: Mobile, Alabama Newspaper Sun., Jan. 31, 1904 "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper says this morning that Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the American woman who was serving a life sentence on the charge of having poisoned her husband, was released from the Aylesbury Female Convict prison ... January 26." Mrs. Maybrick had married James Maybrick, of Liverpool, England, in 1879. April 27, 1889, he was taken ill and died. Mrs. Maybrick was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, with a sentence commuted to life imprisonment, according to the newspaper. "Mrs. Maybrick's ... mother was Miss Carrie Holbrook, daughter of a rich New York merchant, who married in New York William G. Chandler, of Mobile, a member of the commission firm of St. John A. Powers. ... Soon after William Chandler's death in 1862, Mrs. Chandler and her little son and daughter moved to Macon, Ga., and thence to Europe, where Florence received an education. ... "Florence met James Maybrick in Germany. He was a cotton merchant of Liverpool, Norfolk and Galveston. ... "As to the mother, she was a brilliant society woman, stylish, though not pretty. She had gone to Mobile about 1868, visiting her uncle, the Rev. J.H. Ingraham, D. D., author of 'The Prince of the Peace of David,' etc., and at that time pastor of St. John's Church. She became very popular in society, being a good conversationalist, handsome and prepossessing. Young Chandler was the favored suitor of Miss Holbrook. He followed her to New York and there they were married. Returned to Mobile, they lived in good style. Mrs. Chandler increased her influence in society, and was even as much of a belle as before her marriage."