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1851 census HO107 1698 folio 559
2 Cross Road Twickenhma Middlesex
Richard Martin 79 Head Married Annuitant St Pancras Middlesex
Ann Martin 40 Wife Married Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
Lionel Rodwell 34 Son-in-law Married Fruiterer Hungerford Berkshire
Maria Rodwell 47 Wife Married St Bennets London
A marriage in the same quarter
Marriages Sep 1842
MARTIN Richard Joseph Richmond S 4 387
RODWELL Ann Richmond Sy 4 387
RODWELL Lionel Richmond Sy 4 387
SCOTT Maria Richmond Surrey 4 387
27th July 1842 Richmond parish church Surrey
Richard Joseph Martin Full Age Widower Gentleman New Richmond Richard Martin Gentleman
Ann Rodwell Full Age Spinster New Richmond Josiah Rodwell Gentleman
Both signed
Witnesses William Brewer and Maria Scott
Gentleman was a term used to describe someone who had enough yearly income not to have to work. That might mean through inheritance or their business had done sufficiently well they could retire.
1841 census HO107 658/12 folio 13
2 Cross Road Twickenham Middlesex
Richard Martin 70 Ind
(ependent) born in county
Maria Scott D? 30 born in county
Maria Scott 13 born in county
adult ages, those over 15, usually rounded down to the nearest 5 on the 1841 census.
Though a baptism at St James Westminster Richard Joseph on the 1851 census states he was born in St Pancras.
MARTIN, Richard Joseph born 5th June 1771 baptised 1st July 1771
Parents Richard and Sarah
possible sibling baptised later at the same church
MARTIN, Ann born 8th October 1777 baptised 29th October 1777
There is a possible child baptised earlier at St Pancras
St Pancras Parish Church 12th February 1770 born same day
Henry Blayney parents Richard and Sarah
From this website
http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsofbat11bath/proceedingsofbat11bath_djvu.txt'Heads of Illustrious Men (100) English and Foreign, by
Nanteuil Hollar (all very fine and some rare), Monn, from
the Heroologia, by Mellan, etc., etc. The whole collected by
Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, Countess of Pomfret, 1730 (each
print inlaid and bordered) with Biographical sketches of the
Lives and characters, very elegantly written in compartments,
enclosed by neatly pencilled borders in gold and colours by
Herself.
At the sale this book was purchased by Henry Blayney
Martin, of Ashfield Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds, who died at
Sidmouth in 1824, leaving it to his eldest daughter, Harriet,
wife of Major Robert Fryer Phillips, R.A. She died m 1871,
at 6 Russell Street, Bath, and it passed with her property to
her nephew, the Rev. W. W. Martin, Rector of Shepperton,
Middlesex, 1876-1900, and now of 49, Pulteney Street, Bath-
wick, by whose gift it has now become the property for ever
of the City of Bath, and its Guildhall Library.' Prerogative Court of Canterbury will
Will of Henry Blayney Martin of Sidmouth , Devon
Date 21 June 1827
Catalogue reference PROB 11/1727
14th January 1765 St Mary Marylebone Middlesex
Richard Martin a bachelor of the parish
Sarah Blayney a minor of St Mary Lambeth Surrey (Jonathan Blayney her father gave consent to her marriage)
by licence
Both signed
Witnesses Jonathan Blayney and Sophia ?
Information on the parish of St James Westminster
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40541Regards
Valda