In his 1895 book History of Pasadena, Hiram Reid wrote that Mrs. R.E. Burnham so named this street in 1886 as her paternal grandmother’s maiden name was Maylin, an ancestor was Lord Maylin Chamberlain of Coventry, UK, and her only daughter was Mary Maylin Burnham. I can at least confirm that Rebecca Elizabeth Burnham (née Russell, 1842-1905) did co-own the 1886 tract on which Maylin Street was laid out. A native of England, she was at the time the widow of Rev. Edwin Otway Burnham – he perished in Pasadena in 1873, one year after the couple’s arrival from Minnesota. (She later married a William Clapp.) An 1884 genealogical record noted that the Burnhams had a daughter named Mary M. who died in July 1868 at eight months of age, so Reid’s claim is credible on that front. As for “Lord Maylin Chamberlain”, there’s no trace of his existence. P.S. One of the Burnhams’ sons, Frederick, became a world-famous adventurer and inspired the formation of the Boy Scouts.
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