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Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Robert Martin

Date and place of birth
24 Jan 1841, 30 Hanover St, Brighthelmstone, Sussex

Names of parents
William Martin and Elizabeth nee Berwick

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
not found
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Married 20 Nov 1859, St James Shoreditch, London
(son Robert Harry Martin was born 27 Nov 1859, so just in the nick of time)

Occupation(s) - if any
Gilder, miner, publican

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
1841 - 30 Hanover St Brighton with parents and brother William
1851 - 2 Kew St Brighton with widowed mother and brother James
1861 - 24 Stanmore St Islington with wife and son
1871 - not found, wife described as Ship Stewards Wife.
1874 - George St Sydney, when wife and children arrived
1873-4 Milburn Creek Copper Mine, near Cowra NSW
1883 - Ada St Burwood NSW
1888 - Captains Flat, near Canberra.

After arriving in the colony of NSW, Robert became a partner in a copper mining venture called the Milburn Creek Copper Mine. After several years of controversy, the NSW Govt was forced to hold a Royal Commission into the goings on of a rival copper mining company and the Minister of Mines. The newspaper reports are extensive, although Robert was only involved in the arguments over the granting of mining leases

Date, place and cause of death
19 Sep 1888, at Captains Flat, cause of death Delerium (sic)Tremens
(occupation at time of death, Publican, and I think he drank all the profits !)

I think I would have too - his father died before he was 10 and his mother before he was 20. In the middle of the Milburn Creek problems, his wife died of TB, then he was made bankrupt in 1881 and his youngest child died, also of TB in 1883, enough tragedy for any one person

Date and place of burial / cremation.
Buried 21 Sep 1888, at Carwoola NSW, (Don't think Captains Flat had a cemetery, its was a wild mining town)

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
son Robert Harry Martin and son-in-law William Richard Collis appointed executors, but debts outweighed his assets.

Memorial inscription - if any
none, no headstone.