Charles Martin and Francis Prickett
Parents :
William
Martin and Hanna
Coalman
Robert
and Jane Prickett
Charles Martin (b 1797 Twywell Northamptonshire, m Francis Prickett
1826 Islington Middlesex, d 1876 Castlemaine Vic)
Francis Prickett (b 1800 St Pancras Middlesex, d 1879 Castlemaine)
Charles Henry Martin (b 1827 Islington , m Elizabeth
Hitchcock 1853 Prahan Vic, m Hannah Anderson abt 1884 Ballarat, d 1908
Collingwood Vic)
Hannah Martin
(b
1829 Islington, m Thomas
Farr 1849 Camden
Town, London,d 1890 St Kilda)
Edwin Farr
(b 1858 Ballarat, m Louisa Jane Briant
1884 Presb Manse Ballarat, d 1943 Northcote)
Winifred Emma Farr (b
1890
Northcote, m Norman Thompson
1918 , d 1994 Preston)
Henry Martin (b 1832 Islington , m Elanor Maw 1853
Collingwood, d 1897 Balwyn Vic)
Louisa Martin (b 1833 Peterborough,
Northhamptonshire , m James Crump
1852 St Pancras, d 1904 Fairfield Vic)
Charles Martin's Will
Glenis Crocker
searched the Victorian Public Records for his will.She could not find
it, but found an application for Probate by his daughter Louisa Crump,
as sole executrix, on 6th of July 1903.
This is nearly 26 years after his
death. She explains in her submission that she only found she had a
problem when she tried to sell Charles' house in Wimble St Castlemaine.
Louisa had apparently just moved to 12 Tremerry St Abbotsford, after
living in Wimble St till then. The will itself is not available, as
Louisa successfully applied to have it removed from file
Francis Prickett's origins
Death certificate gives no maiden name, but gives her age as 78 on 13
June 1879
Marriage certificate gives maiden name as Prickett (1826 Islington
Middlesex)
LDS only has one christening of Frances Prickett, daughter of Robert
Thomas Prickett and Jane Maria (Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate 26 Apr
1800) - confirmed by an extract of the entry
LDS only has one marriage of Robert Prickett, to Ann Salte (Tottenham,
4 Jul 1798)
LDS has no death/burial entries for Jane/Ann Prickett, but LDS is not
good at deaths
Robert Thomas Prickett in his will (1805/6) nominates his wife
Sarah and daughter Frances as his only beneficiaries
1851 Census (31 Mar)
St Pancras (38 Goldington North St)
Age
Occupation
Where
Born
Charles
MARTIN
Head
52
Master
Butcher Twibil, NTH
Frances
MARTIN
50
St
Pancras, MDX
Henry
MARTIN
19
Islington,
MDX
Louisa
MARTIN
17
Peterborough,
Northhamptonshire
Thomas
FARR
Head
27
Carpenter
Southgate,
MDX
Hannah
FARR
21
Islington,
MDX
Alice
L
FARR
3
months
St
Pancras, MDX
(all living in number 38)
Twibill is probably Twywel, NTH
General Notes
Frances' father was an upholsterer who lived at St
Martin's Le Grande
in the city of London (information provided by Frances on a census form
conducted on 5th November, 1831). However, he may also have been a
steam boat owner on the Thames, as this is the information provided by
James Crump on the death certificate of Frances when she died at
Castlemaine in 1879. It is possible that James was wrong in the
information that he provided - but it is also possible that both are
correct and that he changed occupations. The Prickett family appears to
have been fairly well off.
Charles father was a farmer.
Louisa was christened in St Mary Magdalene,
Bermondsey. Subsequent
Martin children were christened in St Giles Cripplegate, and in the
1841 census both Crumps and Martins were living around that area. (In
fact, on census night, some of the Martin children were down the road
staying with the Crumps).
Families of James Crump, Charles Martin (Snr), and
Thomas Farr sailed
from London in August 1854 on the Aberfoyle, and arrived in Port
Phillip in December 1854. The shipping list gives passengers as
Charles
Martin aged 54, Joiner
Frances
Martin
53
(his wife)
Thomas
Farr
29
Carpenter
Hannah
Farr
24
James
Crump
24
Carpenter
Louisa
Crump
21
Alice
Farr
3
Sarah A
Farr
2
James H
Crump
1
Charles Farr
2 mo.
We do know that the Crumps went to the goldfield at Castlemaine, and
the Farrs and the Martins went to Ballarat. We believe there are still
Crumps living in the area.
The 1854 party were preceeded to Melbourne by Chales Henry Martin (the
eldest son- see above) in late 1852. Presumably the main party came out
on his recommendation.
The following material is from
posters prepared by Glenis Crocker for a
Martin and Farr reunion she organised in Ballarat
Contents
MARTIN AS A SURNAME:
"OUR MARTINS"
EVIDENCE FOR
LINKING CHARLES MARTIN WITH THE TEETON/SPRATTON MARTINS:
EVIDENCE AGAINST THE LINK:
REASONS FOR
KEEPING AN OPEN MIND ON THE LINKS:
EVIDENCE NEEDED TO
PROVE/DISPROVE THE LINK:
FARMYARD AT TWYWELL.
HOMES OF THE
MARTIN FAMILY IN AND AROUND ISLINGTON
CENSUS INFORMATION
30TH MARCH 1851
NON-CONFORMIST CHAPELS
IN LONDON
ISLINGTON TODAY (AUGUST 1977)
COMING TO AUSTRALIA
THE PRICKETTS
CHARLES MARTIN IN
CASTLEMAINE
Transcript of
the Will of Robert Thomas Prickett, dated August
1805.
See
Robert Prickett's page
Transcription of
the Will of Charles Richard Prickett dated 16th January
1808,
See
Charles Prickett's page
MARTIN AS A SURNAME:
The surname Martin, although very common, is thought to have its
origins from a small group of immigrants to England. They were
predominantly merchants, dealing with every stage of cloth and leather
production from farm to export.
"OUR MARTINS"
The branch of Martins from which we appear to be descended lived in a
group of villages based around Teeton and Spratton in Northamptonshire.
(See map) In the 1700s Martins were
fairly mobile between
villages, with families appearing in a parish register and then no
further entries, with the same family then appearing elsewhere.
The surnames Dickins and Coleman (Coalman) sometimes appeared in
association with the surname Martin, and in some cases they appeared
and disappeared from Parish registers at similar times.
The particular branch from which we come, according to evidence
collected so far, was centred in Teeton. (See information
provided by Helen Millward)
This branch can be traced back to the 1600's, and earlier with the
assistance of a knowledge of Latin.
However, the direct link of these Martins with our Charles Martin has
been made by a process of elimination, which as yet is not complete,
and possibly will never be complete.
EVIDENCE FOR
LINKING CHARLES MARTIN WITH THE TEETON/SPRATTON MARTINS:
Charles Martin's death certificate lists his place of birth as being
Northamptonshire, while the 1851 Census gives the village in which he
was born as Twibil, Northamptonshire. Lists giving all the
Northamptonshire villages and parishes of that time have no village of
this name, the closest sounding name being Twywell. Census
details were written down by the census collector going from house to
house, and so the village was probably written as he heard it, rather
than as it was spelt. His spelling of Farr as Fair lends support
to this theory. (The conclusion that the village was Twywell was
reached independently by two different family researchers)
Twywell records show only one family of Martin living there in the
relevant period. William Martin from Teeton married Hannah
Coalman at Twywell in 1787. They had six children born in
Twywell, the last of whom, Charles, was christened on 27th
December1797. There are no further Martins in parish records in
Twywell.
EVIDENCE AGAINST THE LINK:
This baptism makes Charles 1 year older than evidence from the 1851
Census in London, from the shipping records, and from his death
certificate.
His mother on his death certificate was listed as Hannah Pricket, which
was then corrected to Hannah Dickins.
REASONS FOR
KEEPING AN OPEN MIND ON THE LINKS:
* There was only one family of Martins in Twywell at the relevant time.
* The mother's Christian name was Hannah and she had a son Charles at
about the right time.
* Although Dickins was recorded as Charles' mother's maiden name, it
was only after a correction had already been made, indicating
uncertainty.
* James Crump, who filled in the forms, was about ten years out in the
ages of children listed (including his wife), suggesting some element
of unreliability. Around this time he was retired on the grounds
of ill heath from his job as station master of Castlemaine.
* Dickins/Dickens of Ravensthorpe were close family friends of the
previous generation of Martins (see Wills), but a search of
Ravensthorpe and adjacent parish and chapel records has not yielded a
Hannah Dickins/ Dickens who lived to adulthood, born between 1750 -
1785, and therefore of an age to be the mother of Charles. James
Crump may have mistaken a known family friend name for Charles'
mother's maiden name, or if Hannah outlived William Martin, she may
have remarried a Dickins/ens.
EVIDENCE NEEDED
TO PROVE/DISPROVE THE LINK:
* A death certificate for one of his brothers or an unmarried sister
giving parent details.
* Elimination over time of other explanations by searching as widely as
possible through adjacent Parish records
* Finding original documents, eg the marriage certificate of Charles
& Frances which may give parent details, or an old Family
Bible. Church parish registers do not give this detail.
FARMYARD AT TWYWELL.
This yard is still known as Martin's Yard, even
though no Martins have
lived in the village within memory. The original farmhouse no
longer exists. Note: The slaughterhouse at Castlemaine, Victoria, was
listed in the rate collector's book of 1858 as Martin's Yards
On an account sent by Thomas Farr to Charles Martin,
for carpentry work
done at his residence and at the Dana Tt. School, note the address is
29 Eyre st, which appears to have been the address of Thomas’ business,
in 1871.
HOMES OF THE
MARTIN FAMILY IN AND AROUND ISLINGTON
The Martins, Farrs and Crumps are known to have
lived at a variety of
locations in and around Islington. Census records, and the birth
records for the first three children of Hannah and Thomas Farr (Alice
Farr, Sarah Farr, and Charles Farr,) and for James Harry Crump, the
first son of Louisa and James Crump show that the family was based in
the area around Islington from the time of Charles Martin’s marriage to
Frances Prickett..
CENSUS INFORMATION
30TH MARCH 1851
Charles Martin is listed a being born in Twibil or Twivil,
Northamptonshire. A list of old villages and their Parishes gives
Twywell as the only likely village. Remember that the scribe for
the census had to write down unfamiliar names in many dialects.
He didn’t go too well on Thomas Farr and family either, who were living
in the same house. (Wrote it down as Fair, which may give some idea of
the broad accent.)
NON-CONFORMIST
CHAPELS IN LONDON
The non-conformist chapels were very prolific in the
Islington
area. Some of these, such as Park Chapel, were privately
owned. Park
Chapel, which at one stage was attended by the Martins, was owned by
Baptist Noel, who was the sixteenth child and eleventh son of Sir
Gerard Noel-Noel. He had begun training to ‘read for the bar’,
but changed his mind and became a minister in the Church of
England. He was very involved with social issues of the time and
in 1848 broke away from the Church of England to become a Baptist
preacher. He was baptised by immersion in the John St Baptist
Chapel, and was its minister there until his resignation in 1868.
ISLINGTON TODAY (AUGUST
1977)
NB. Numbers in Upper St are duplicated
and have probably changed since the 1820’s, so 134 Upper Street, the
place of birth of Hannah Martin, could not be positively
identified.
COMING TO AUSTRALIA
Charles Martin and Henry Martin sailed to Victoria
in 1852. A
letter of Commendation written in England and held by Charles as an
introduction in Victoria was dated late July 1852. A search of
shipping records has not found conclusive evidence of their ship,
the search being made more difficult by the common names of henry and
Charles Martin. It is uncertain whether they sailed together or
independently.
A search of the Shipping Index of unassisted
passengers has yielded the
following:
Chas J. Martin on the ship
Ballengiech, (also spelt Ballangeich)
arrived Dec 1852. (Checks of shipping showed it arrived 7th
Dec 1852 after sailing from Southampton 21st August 1852)
Henry Martin on the ship Ballengiech, arrived Dec 1852.
Henry Martin on this ship, and another Henry Martin on the Athenian,
Feb 1852, were marked on the index "* see passenger problems
folder". This has not yet been followed up.
A search of the passenger lists for the Ballengeich
showed Henry Martin
was aged 20 and was English, but a listing for Charles was not
found. A more careful search is needed. The age of Henry Martin
matches.
Another ship, the Isabella, sailed from London on
the 31st July 1852,
with only 36 passengers. This is a date which matches precisely
with other family information. However, no Charles or Henry were
on board. Instead, Edward, Eliza and Mary Martin, English, aged
21, 23 and 21 years respectively were on board. (Note:
Nearly every ship seemed to have Martins on board, so this is probably
of no significance.)
The migration of the rest of the family was located
far more easily, as
they all came out together on the ship "Aberfoyle" in 1854. The
grouping together and the larger number of names verified that the
listing was ours.
The LaTrobe library in Melbourne in its Picture
collection has a
photograph and a print of a sailing ship called the Aberfoyle.
Unfortunately it is not "our" ship, as it was commissioned in the
1880's. Because of name changes to ships, it is necessary to
check with the Loyd's of London shipping registers to trace name
changes, to locate any paintings or photographs of the Aberfoyle of
1854. This can be done in the geneology section of the La Trobe
Library. The LaTrobe Library Picture Collection has an extensive
range of sailing ships which plied between England and Australia.
These can be accessed through Internet, so it is still possible we may
be able to come up with a picture of the Aberfoyle, although possibly
called by another name.
THE PRICKETTS
Frances Prickett was the only known child of Robert
Thomas Prickett,
Upholsterer. She was baptised in 1800 and her mother's name was
recorded as Jane Maria, surname not given.
Robert's Will, written in 1805 and proved in 1806, records his wife's
name as Sarah, but he specifically mentions his daughter Frances by
(name indecipherable). Robert, his brother Richard, his father
and another brother Charles all died within a few years of each other,
leaving only their wives and mother plus children. (Hope it
wasn't the cooking)
Robert died in 1806, Charles died two years later, his Will recording
that Richard had legitimate children and illegitimate children by
Prudence, known as Prudence Prickett. Charles only had one
surviving child, a daughter called Eliza.
Family Wills have not yet been explored fully, but
it appears that the
Pricketts as a family were financially comfortably off. It seems
likely that Sarah remarried another member of the Prickett family,
possibly Paul, as their first child was called Robert. Two Sarah
Pricketts married other Pricketts, but as Parish records have not yet
been checked, it isn't known whether one was a widow.
Some Prickett Wills were very complex, leaving income in perpetuity to
descendants. Pricketts marrying Pricketts may have been a method
of consolidating family finances, as it seems to have occurred a number
of times.
Another Prickett Will, that of John Prickett,
surveyor, relationship to
us, if any, is unknown, is very interesting because it mentions a
Frances Prickett, and gives detailed family relationships. Income
from many properties, farms and investments is left to a variety of
children, sisters and grandchildren, including a Frances Prickett, in
perpetuity for their LEGALLY begotten descendants only. (Perhaps a
reaction to Richard's excesses). It is 17 pages long,
specifically excludes Sons-in-law from using their wife's income to
discharge their debts, and mentions many people and places, two of
which overlap with the Will of Charles Prickett, (Frances' uncle,)
suggesting some links with our family. The writing looks
beautiful but is atrocious to decipher. The reading of the Will
would have taken ages. Sons-in-law would have been a bit upset to
sit for hours through its reading only to find they weren't to touch
their wife's money.
If ever deciphering this Will is finished, and any
links are
discovered, the income from any inheritance only has to be divided
about 900 ways, on last count of the family tree.
Our Pricketts lived in London, but other Pricketts
lived in
Yorkshire. Wills read to date show that members of the same
family were based in Yorkshire while others were in London.
Prickett, I believe, is a name associated withYorkshire Milling .
Those Pricketts living in and around London in the
eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries appear to have had few associations with the
Non-conformists, but were Church of England. However, WW2
bombings took their toll of Parish registers, here and in other parts
of England. Some Parish registers in central London were not
released to the Church of Latter Day Saints for copying, and so are not
included in the IGI index. The Wills, however, give us several
Parishes to begin the search for further links.
CHARLES MARTIN IN
CASTLEMAINE
harles Martin, Master Butcher, lived in or near
Castlemaine at the
time of Cuthbert Clarke. The Castlemaine Rate Records are
incomplete in the 1850's and so we have been unable to identify
Charles' precise whereabouts in the late 1850's. However, in one
rate collectors book in the PRO Laverton for the year 1858, he is
recorded as the ratepayer on slaughtering yards, located at D4,
allotments 11,12,13 and 22,23,24, valued at 150 pounds (250?). The
survey maps show the location. He only appears to have been there
for one or two years, as the next year the rate collector had crossed
out Martin's Yards and written in pencil above it the names of the
owners as the Rate payers. Although he and his wife lived in
Castlemaine until their deaths, he does not appear to be listed among
the many small butchers in the Rate books for Castlemaine , which makes
me suspect that if he worked, he continued to run a slaughterhouse.
In London, circumstantial evidence suggests that he
did not work as a
retail butcher, but rather in the slaughtering side. We have no
knowledge of his whereabouts prior to the slaughterhouse, or whether he
actually worked the slaughterhouse from the time of his arrival in
Australia in 1854. Five of the six allotments of the land were
allocated to J.Carmichael & R. Russell in 1857, the other in 1855
to S. Ankrett. J. Bisset is adjacent to these.
I suspect that he established the slaughterhouse
when the land was
still Crown land, and was then forced off with the allocation of the
land to others. The other alternative is that he was given the
task of establishing the slaughterhouse by Carmichael and Russell in
1857, as there were also butchers by the name of Russell. Once
set up, they then took over the task of running it. If this was the
case, then possibly he would have been operating similarly in the
region prior to this.
Local newspaper reports referred to slaughtering
occurring in the
streets of the early goldfields, and blood running down the
gutters. The flies were a great problem, and there was much
concern. The location of Charles Martin's slaughterhouse today is
on the outskirts of Castlemaine, with the Council Tip being located
behind. There have been some houses built on the
area, facing the Maldon Rd, but these are relatively recent. The
area is basically "goldfields bush". Ie, thin eucalypts, sparse
groundcover, shale rock.
Facts Extracted from Glenis Crocker's Database Notes (Possibly from
Helen Millward)
Frances Prickett
Funeral notice monday June 16 in The Mount Alexander Mail
The
Friends ofn the late Mrsa. FRANCES Martin are respectfully invited
to follow her remains to the Castlemaine Cemetery. The Funeral
will leave the residence of Mr Crump, Wimble-street, This Day at 2
o'clock.
GROSE & Odgers Undertakers
Charles Martin
Born in Twywell in 1797, the family left there when Charles was three.
If chas Martin, apprenticed to Peter Howard in Newington is ours, he
was almost adopted as the indentures were to run till he was 21 years
old. £10 fee. listed in apprentiship records in PRO Kew.
There is no further information until he marries Frances Prickett in
Islington, but he must have been apprenticed and by the birth of his
children he is a master butcher, resident first at 6 Brunswick Parade,
White Conduit Fields,
Islington, when Charles Henry was born, and then
on Upper Street Islington when Hannah arrived. The residence of
the family when the other two children were born has still to be
checked. In 1841 they may be living at Long Lane, Bermondsey, but the
census records are badly damaged. Bermandsey Parish Records show the
baptism of Charles, Henry & Louisa July 6th 1834, Parents being
Charles and Frances, Charles being a butcher living in Long Lane.
According to the 1851 census Louisa was born at Peterborough.
At the time of the 1851 census Charles and his three younger children
are living at Goldington Street, Somer Town, just west of the Midland
main line. Hannah has married and her husband and daughter form part of
the household. The business in 1846 was in King Street Somer
Town, which address has vanished without trace, possibly under railway
sidings. Charles Henry is living at 33 Lucas St, Commercial Rd, from
which address he applied for teacher training. In 1852 the two boys
emigrate. Henry`s bed in the family home is taken by Louisa`s future
husband. The rest of the family all followed the boys in1854 on the
Aberfoyle to Melbourne, disembarking at Geelong. They all went as
unassisted migrants
By 1859 Charles is running an abbattoir in tents on land probably
leased for the purpose at Castlemaine. The land for which they
paid rates covered 6 allotements. By 1862 the Yards were split up
and various people paid the rates. The Largest payer being
Russell. At the time of his death Charles owned a house plot next door
to the Crumps in Wimble Street Castlemaine.
Frances Martin is recorded as running a shop on the birth certificate
of a later grandchild.
James Crump paid £4 / 2 / 6 for the funeral with coffin &
mourning coach. Charles was buried in a public grave on Tuesday 17th
September. The plot was purchased by James Crump at the time of
Frances death.
Funeral Notice, Tuesday September 17 in the Mount Alexander Mail
The
Friends of the late Mr CHARLES MARTIN are respectfully invited to
follow his remains to the Castlemaine Cemetery. The funeral will
leave the residence of his son-in-law, Mr Crump, Wimble-street, This
Day, at half-past Two o'clock.
Grose & Odgers, Undertakers
White Conduit House
had been a tea-house in 1811 for many years, with
views over the fields towards Hampstead, and Highgate. It's name
derived from an old stone conduit, erected 1641, built over a head of
water that supplied the Charter House by a leaden pipe. White Conduit
House had neat gardens surrounding a round pond and arbours for sitting
in, bowling green,,dutch-pin grounds. About 1790 the field was
used for cricket by the local gentlemen. The house was spacious,
contained a well toned organ, and also had an ale and table brewery
attached.
John Nelson, the History of Islington.1811
The Cattle Markets
John Perkins obtained in 1836 permission by Act of Parliament to
establishthe Islington Cattle Market, of Essex Road. This was opposed
by the Smithfield butchers, the City and others. Perkins hoped to
collect the cattle heading east, and provided pens for 40,000 sheep,
7,000 cattle and 1,000 pigs. The site was entered through an imposing
entrance arch through a fourstorey entrance. The slaughtering operation
did not succeed, but the pens were used for overnight/ or longer
containment of livestock enroute to Smithfield. Perkins lost
£100,000. Smithfield was still overloaded for operations
and in 1855 the Metropolitan Cattle Market, between York Way and the
Caledonian Road was opened.
John Richardson, Islington Past.1988
Acknowledgements
Most of the material on the Martins comes from Glenis Crocker, with
help from Robyn Lawther and Helen
Millward. Glenis's material prepared for the Martin reunion she
organised has been quoted directly here. They have traced the family
back to the 16th century, by a lot of detective work on old wills.
Also Len Martin produced an excellent book on Charles Henry
Martin, Hannah Martin's brother
Research Notes
Genes Reunited checked for Hannah and Charles
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