Katy Martin - b 1875
According to the 1881 and 1891 census, Katy would have been the 2nd eldest of Charles’ & Emma’s children. I sent off for a birth certificate, details as follows:
- Born on 2 October, 31 Charles Street, Lambeth
- Father: Frederick Charles Martin, Deal Porter*
- Mother: Emma Martin, nee Richardson
- Registration District: Lambeth
- Subdistrict: Waterloo Second Part, Surrey
- Date registered: 8 November 1875
* The census tells us that her father was Charles Martin. The Birth certificate gives him as Frederick Charles Martin.
Later in his career we know Charles as a coal porter. At this time he was working as ‘deal porter’ - a job which involved lugging wood to and from barges and around the many timber yards that can be seen in Lambeth on the Godfrey Edition of the Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Waterloo & Southwark, published in 1894 and later.