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Old 09-12-18, 12:44
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Default Martha Blacker

Name - "official" name and what they were known as Martha Blacker
Date and place of birth About 1770 Gloucestershire, England
Names of parents Don't know
Date and place of baptism - if applicable Not found
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any 3 Dec 1792 Long Ashton, Somerset, to Richard Oswald
15 Jun 1818 St Paul, Bristol, to John Chamberlain

Occupation(s) - if any Housewife
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
1790-2 Long Ashton, Somerset
1793-1795 Bristol, Gloucestershire
1797 - Bedminster, Somerset
1806 - Bristol, Gloucestershire
1841 - St Philip & St Jacob, Bristol, Gloucestershire

Date, place and cause of death 1841 Clifton, Bristol, age 71, not got cause.
Date and place of burial. Not found
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable Not found
Memorial inscription - if any Not found
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There is a Martha Thomas, daughter of George and Martha, baptised 29 Jul 1765 at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, which is a few years earlier than my Martha is supposed to have been born. I just mention this because Findmypast says there is a marriage between a James Blacker and a Martha Thomas 14 May 1775 at Long Ashton, by banns, with the banns being read 13 Apr 1775. So possibly James Blacker was my Martha's stepfather and she took his name? Trouble is I can't find an image of this marriage record to see whether the bride was a widow or not. Ancestry has the Long Ashton marriages for 1775 but they go straight from April to July and there is no page missing. The banns are dated 30 Apr, 7 May and 14 May, so could it be that the final date of the banns has been indexed as the marriage date and they didn't actually get married? Unfortunately the banns record doesn't show whether Martha was a widow.

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There is also a Martha Blacker, daughter of Abraham and Mary, baptised at Clutton, Somerset, 22 Aug 1762, even earlier than my Martha was supposedly born. There is a James Lane / Martha Blacker marriage there in 1785 and the Lanes were still having children baptised after my Martha Blacker married Richard Oswald, so I think we can rule that one out.

Ooh, I just thought - I can order my Martha's death cert cheap from the GRO now. I don't suppose it will help me trace her back but it will give me the date and cause of death at least.
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Okay, she died on the 3 Sep 1841 at Poyntz Pool, age 71, wife of John Chamberlain, a labourer, cause of death "Age", informant Letitia Williams, present at the death, Poyntz Pool.
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