MACKLE BUILDERS - Key Persons
Frank Elliott Mackle was born to James and Nancy in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1881. He was the youngest of four sons. Brothers William (1871), James Jr (1875). and Frederick (1878) preceded him.
His father, James, died in 1886, when Frank was five years old, apparently leaving his wife and son penniless. His widowed mother, however, was resourceful. Less than a year later she married John Kendall in October 1887. A year after that, in 1888 she and her four boys boarded a ship for America.
Frank was six or seven when he left his home in England in 1888. The family settled in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Apparently, they moved quickly to become citizens. Records show nine-year-old Frank petitioning for citizenship in March 1890. Presumably, his three older brothers and his mother petitioned at the same time.
Family stories did not mention John Kendall coming with them, but he appears with them in Elizabeth city directories from 1895 to1901. Thereafter all records of him are lost.
Frank grew up in Elizabeth New Jersey in the late 19 th century and the turn of the 20 th. Elizabeth was - and is - an industrialized town on the north coast of New Jersey town, a few miles from New York City.
Around 1896 - when he was about fifteen years old - Frank went to work in the steel and ship building industry of Elizabeth.
According to his son, Frank Jr., his father - in his youth - had been a prize fighter as well.
Frank became a citizen of the U.S. in 1902 at the age of twenty-one - twelve years after his petition.
He lived in Elizabeth until about 1903 or 1904 when he moved to Quincy, Massachusetts to work in the steel yards there. Frank was about 22 or 23.
In or near Quincy Frank was employed as a foreman on the first all-steel submarine which was built by Charles M. Schwab and the Fore River Ship Building Company.
It was in Quincy that he met Theresa Roche. On January 5, 1908, Frank and Theresa were married in Quincy. Frank was 26 and Theresa was 22 years old.
Elliott was laid off the CWA today, his last pay from them, but he has a temporary job to go to Monday, in the State Health Dept., about a month's job. But he is really trying to get something permanent, and I never saw him working so hard. Robert had a talk with his bosses in Montgomery about quitting, and the way he put it about staying on there with them was, they are better salesmen than he is, meaning I guess, that they urged him to stay. You see he only has two more months on the contract he signed with them, then they are supposed to give him a better job, and I think he did a wised thing finishing out his six months. He isn't very hot for the insurance game, that is the whole trouble.
My Grandfather on my mother's side, Harold Steward, was a remarkable man.
He was a leading Architect in South Florida for over fifty years - extending his design services abroad on occasion as well.
He was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1896 and attended Syracuse University in New York graduating with a degree in architecture.
After college he joined the Navy and served during World War I.
He and my Grandmother, Marcelia Bearmore, wed in 1918 and moved to Miami in 1924.
James, Patrick's son, one of four children, was born in Fleetwood in 1850. In the 1861 census he is young boy with Patrick and Sarah and his three siblings. In the 1871 census, now 21 years old, he is no longer with his birth family but is residing in Barrow in Furness as a lodger with the Rawcliffe family.