« Reply #14 on: Sunday 31 May 20 08:06 BST (UK) »
Hi jorose, that is really interesting. I had searched both family search and Welsh newspapers and found nothing.
Sadly i’m not sure that this is the right man though the basic details fit with what the family believe. It is actually his wife Rose we are looking for as she cannot be found after the marriage in 1905 and birth of their son in 1906.
Henry - as known - was born in Hook in Pembrokeshire in 1873. He was living at home and a coal miner in 1891, and in 1901 he is in Ebbw Vale with relatives, again a coal miner, possibly having moved there for work. Still in Ebbw Vale and a coal miner on his marriage in 1905.
In 1911 his son is with his grandmother in Hook - about 65 miles away from Swansea. No sign of Rose. Family story is that the grandmother wouldn’t let Rose see the child, though she is known to have ‘walked many miles’ on several occasions to try and see him. A neighbour recalls Rose as looking ‘very young’.
Henry’s death is apparently included on a memorial tombstone in Hook, but given what has been found in the last few days i am reluctant to believe this is the right man, though i have no idea how the family knew he had died.
‘Our’ Henry was married with a wife and son (not single) always a coal miner, one of 10 surviving children (not 2 brothers), and from a village 65 miles from Swansea (no known connection).
Hard to believe there could be another Henry / Harry Martin, aged 41 from Wales though, who died in a mining accident in Colorado.
I’ll pass this info on to the family and see what they think.
Many thanks.
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