Life has been busy with house renovations, helping with the four grandchildren's home schooling and my husbands health issues of late, which has meant that this blog has been sadly neglected. I have not been completely idle though, as I have been sorting out my family trees and chasing up DNA matches here and there.
Excitingly I was recently contacted by an American distant relative of my husbands Martin line, through him seeing some of my blog posts. This has resulted in Richard filling in some important missing pieces of the puzzle for me and has helped me to knock down a major brick wall I had with the Martin line. I am so very grateful that he reached out, as it has led to so many new discoveries for me, which I will share in future posts.
If you have read some of my former posts, here and here, you will know that this line has taken me on quite the journey over the last twenty seven years! There was a family story about a connection with Canada which I thought I had unravelled until it turned out to be completely the wrong family. This discovery led to me scrapping everything I had and starting again. Eventually thanks to family information provided by Barbara Cooper (who thankfully also got in touch with me through this blog) I found the right family, discovering that my husbands great grandfather was William Martin and his great grandmother was Caroline Wallace. They married in Liverpool, England on the 25th of November 1891.
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| Marriage registration for William Martin and Caroline Wallace. Source: Liverpool, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932. Retrieved from Ancestry.com On their marriage certificate it stated that William Martin was a widower, so from this I knew there was definitely a first wife and perhaps a first family waiting to be found. I did some research but could not find definitive proof I was on the right track with finding her/them. Once my husbands distant relative Richard got in contact however this all changed and I now have primary source documents and DNA matches that verify the connections, so I am ecstatic! It turned out William Martin was first married to Mary Adams in Glasgow on the 25th of December in 1874.  Marriage registration for William Martin and Mary Adams. Known children of William Martin and Mary Martin nee Adams:
In 1879, the Martin family comprising of William, Mary and their three children migrated to Canada on board the ship Brooklyn. Canada, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1865 - 1935
Source: Passenger listings for Martin. Canada, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1865 - 1935. Retrieved from Ancestry.com Finally it has been discovered, there is the family connection with Canada that I had been told about so many years ago! It just turned out that it was my husbands great grandfather and not his grandfather who migrated there. |
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