Martin family Blaisdon (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 18:04 (3897 days ago) @ annrh32

Hi,
welcome to the forum. Were the relatives you visited at Bridge House ?

I can only see one Alice Martin at Blaisdon in this site's huge PR database, could this be the one you mention, tho I think she may be too old to be the Alice you visited.

??

Record_ID: 2894
Entry_Number: 551
Year: 1962
Month: Feb
Day: 5
Surname: MARTIN
Forenames: Alice Emma Annie
Residence: Bridge House Blaisdon
Age_at_death: 91
Officiating_Minister: Fredk A. Marchant Rector
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P50 IN 1/9
Page_No: 69
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

Then again, at the same address and time I find a Charles (one of a line it seems from the PRs)

Record_ID: 2895
Entry_Number: 552
Year: 1963
Month: Feb
Day: 22
Surname: MARTIN
Forenames: Charles
Residence: Bridge House Blaisdon
Age_at_death: 84
Officiating_Minister: Fredk A. Marchant Rector
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P50 IN 1/9
Page_No: 69
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

Also at Bridge House, Blaisdon;

Record_ID: 2769
Entry_Number: 426
Year: 1921
Month: Apr
Day: 28
Surname: MARTIN
Forenames: George
Residence: Bridge House Westbury on Severn
Age_at_death: 75
Officiating_Minister: Gilbert Eusor Rector
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: 1921
Notes: 1921 written in left margin
Register_Reference: P50 IN 1/9
Page_No: 54
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

Record_ID: 2766
Entry_Number: 423
Year: 1919
Month: Dec
Day: 16
Surname: MARTIN
Forenames: Emma Jane
Residence: Bridge House Westbury-on-Severn
Age_at_death: 75
Officiating_Minister: Gilbert Eusor Rector
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P50 IN 1/9
Page_No: 53
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

Sons of Charles and Alice:

Record_ID: 150572
Entry_Number: 770
Year: 1912
Month: Jan
Day: 21
Parents_Surname: MARTIN
Child_Forenames: Ronald Charles
Fathers_Forenames: Charles
Mothers_Forenames: Alice Emma Annie
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Blaisdon
Occupation: Insurance Agent
Officiating_Minister: Gilbert Ensor Rector
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: in left hand margin born 14 Dec 1911
Notes:
Register_Reference: P49 1/4
Page_Number: 97
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

Record_ID: 150582
Entry_Number: 780
Year: 1913
Month: Aug
Day: 3
Parents_Surname: MARTIN
Child_Forenames: Dennis Joseph
Fathers_Forenames: Charles
Mothers_Forenames: Alice Emma Annie
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Blaisdon
Occupation: Insurance Agent
Officiating_Minister: Gilbert Ensor Rector
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: in left hand margin born 27 May 1913
Notes:
Register_Reference: P49 1/4
Page_Number: 98
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

Could this be Charles & Alice's marriage, cannot find a PR, but from FreeBMD (both were popular names then, particularly Charles, so not certain if ??).

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
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Marriages Sep 1911 (>99%)
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Baldwin Alice M Gloucester 6a 623
Martin Charley Gloucester 6a 623
Martin Charlie Gloucester 6a 623
they married during the July/August/September Quarter
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

More detail c/of GlosBMD,
Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
MARTIN Charlie BALDWIN Alice Margaret Gloucester Gloucester St Aldate 1911 26x No 1 476
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/MarriageSearch.aspx

(Ah, M = Margaret !!, I originally hoped the M was an error re Emma, but now ???)

More PRs etc in this older thread
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=18384

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The 1879 Kelly's Trade Directory for Blaisdon lists a Charles Martin, a miller at Blaisdon Mill. (Presume this was a water mill, hence Bridge House ??)
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/index.php/resources/kelly-s-directory-1879/45-blaisdon
Ditto 1868 & 1852 Slater's Directories;
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cbennett/newnham1868.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cbennett/newent1852b.htm

I think this was your GGGrandfather Charles b1815, his marriage from GlosBMD;

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
MARTIN Charles PARRY Ellen Forest of Dean Blaisdon St Michael and All Angels 1843 1 7
MARTIN Charles PARRY Eleanor Forest of Dean Blaisdon St Michael and All Angels 1843 1 7

Just one of their family baptisms in this site's PRs, your GREAT Grandfather;
Record_ID: 150053
Entry_Number: 251
Year: 1846
Month: Mar
Day: 1
Parents_Surname: MARTIN
Child_Forenames: George
Fathers_Forenames: Charles
Mothers_Forenames: Eleanor
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Blaysdon
Occupation: Miller
Officiating_Minister: E.Palling Off[iciating] Min[ister]
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P49 1/4
Page_Number: 32
Parish_Chapel: Blaisdon
Soundex: M635

From the British History site,

"The water-mill recorded on the Abenhall's estate in the early 14th century was perhaps at Blaisdon Mill on the Longhope brook at the south end of the village; there was certainly a mill there by 1652. Blaisdon Mill, which was owned by the Gordons in the earlier 19th century, was driving two pairs of stones in 1864. It apparently ceased working in the late 1880s. The stone mill building, distinguished by its weather-boarded hatch, survived in 1969 adjoining the miller's brick house."
From: 'Blaisdon: Economic history', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 8-9.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15736 Date accessed: 25 March 2014.

More recently

http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/gloucestershire/blaisdon/pictures/popup-1645952-the-old-m...

Is there a hump in the road just behind the mill, perhaps over Hope Brook, need to check a map.

Much more detail and recent photos etc here
http://www.fdean.gov.uk/media/Assets/Planning-DC/documents/Conservation%20Areas/Current...