The Martin family

Ann (1831-1914)

Ann (1839-1882)

Samuel (1839-1892)

Joseph (1836-1867)

In 1841, William and Charlotte Martin were living in the house circled below on the Tithe map. In the household were William’s mother, Constant, their 6 children, and the illegitimate daughter of their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, who was called Ann in the ’41 Census. Confusingly, her aunt Ann, aged 6, was also in the household. All the elder children had been baptised at St Martins church in the village, but, after 1832, they last 3 children were baptised in the Tabernacle in the village.

Reproduced by the permission of Geoff Gwatkin

Both William and Charlotte were weavers.

The house where they lived is no longer standing, but the plot is occupied by The Slades. The adjacent house was empty, and both were owned by Robert Mason senior.

Charlotte died in 1847, and, in 1851, the widowed William was living in the same house with three of his children, including Ann.

Joseph was living nearby, in Taborah House in Pitcourt, as servant to Robert Mason. He can’t be found on the following Census, and died, in Nibley, on the 2nd October, 1867. The cause of death was ‘chronic inflamation of the stomach’. He has a handsome tombstone in St Martins churchyard.

On the reverse is a commemoration of his father William, who died two months later, the cause being ‘decay of nature’.

In 1856, Ann married Henry Organ, an agricultural labourer. In 1861 and 1871 they were living in Pit Court, and in 1881 they had moved to Church Street, and Henry was recorded as being a farmer of 5 acres. Ann was a laundress. Ten years later, Henry had reverted to being an agricultural labourer. He died in the following year.

In 1894, Ann married Sidney Wyatt, a farmer ten years younger than Ann, and, in 1901 they were living with Jabez Organ (another member of the cohort) on the Wotton road in Nibley. In 1911, Sidney was recorded as being a market gardener, and he and Ann were living with two lodgers.

Ann died in 1914, aged 83.

*******************************************

In 1861, Samuel was lodging in Rowley, Cam, in the household of James Boughton, the railway station clerk. He was recorded as being an engineer.

In 1864 he married Emma White and, in 1871, he was an engine driver at a woollen cloth factory in Cam. He had married, and his wife was a cloth picker. They had three daughters. By the time of the next Census, they had a son as well. Samuel was a stoker at a cloth factory. In 1891, the family were living at Dudbridge Wharf, Stonehouse, where Samuel was a cloth merchant. Samuel died a year later, aged 53.

***********************************************

In 1841, Elizabeth Martin married Joseph Hill and, in 1851, was living in Pitcourt with their four children, plus Ann (now Ann Hill). In 1861, she was living as a housemaid in Clevedon and, a decade later, she was living as a general servant in Kidbrook, London. In 1881, she had returned to Nibley, and was living at the New Inn with her step-father Joseph and working as a laundress. She died the following year, aged 42.