Thomas Martin (1786-1844) of Southminster, Essex

Thomas was a shopkeeper and owned two tenements on the corner of the High St. and the road to Tillingham where he was living in 1840 along with Henry Martin.

The marriage record for Thomas and Mary in the Southminster records lists Thomas as being from the parish of Asheldham, however, a search of these records does not reveal any information. The only Martin entry in these records from 1760 to 1800 is for the marriage of Rosamund Martin to Robert Abdey in 1772. A search through the IGI at FamilySearch.org for Thomas Martin in Essex came up with a list of possibilities. One entry which agreed with his approximate date of birth was the Thomas who was bpt. at Hockley. Further searching produced an entry for Henry as well. A look at the map revealed the scribe's error in the marriage record... Hockley is next to the village of Ashingdon. Thomas was from Ashingdon, not Asheldham, an easy mistake to make. The dead end in the Martin genealogy caused by this error in the marriage record took over 20 years to discover and without the advantage of having the IGI available would probably never have been solved. Henry's connection is solidified by the naming of his children: Thomas, after his brother; and Mary after his mother.





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