Martha Barnett [Lemon] (1850-1914)

Dates

Birth: October-December 1850 Lindford, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: Mark Barnett 1829-1910
Mother: Eliza Tuckey 1825-1856

Christening: 22 December 1850 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK

Marriage: April-June 1877 Petersfield, Hampshire, UK
Husband: George Lemon 1853-1900

Death: July-September 1914 Greatham, Hampshire, UK

Children

Father unknown
John Barnett 1872-1920

By George
Rose Ann Lemon [Etherington] 1877-1947
Emily Jane Lemon [Albery] 1879-1922
Martha Mabel Lemon 1880-a1881
George Lemon 1881-1907
Thomas Lemon (Lemmon) 1884-1937
Alfred William Lemon (Lemmon) 1885-1909
Henry Lemon (Lemmon) 1888-1941
Sarah Agnes Lemon (Lemmon) 1890-a1901
Frederick Lemon 1893-1957
Frank Lemon 1895-1919

Notes

Birth of Martha Barnett in FreeBMD in October-December 1850 in Farnborough (4 164) which included Headley 1847-1869.

Christening of Martha Barnett in the IGI on 22 December 1850 in Headley, Hampshire, parents Mark and Eliza Barnett.

The same information is in Headley Baptisms adding her father was a labourer living at Lindford.

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Martha Barnett baptised on 22 Dececember 1850 in Headley, All Saints, parents Mark and Eliza Barnett. "Page 193 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Headley in the County of Southampton in the Year 1850 [...] Dec 22 No. 1543 Martha Dr of Mark, a Labourer, and Eliza Barnett of Lindford".

In the 1851 census as Martha Barnett aged 5 months, born in Headley, Hampshire, and living with her parents (Mark and Eliza) who were living with her grandfather (Thomas Barnett), grandmother (Martha), uncle (Luke), aunt (Elizabeth), and cousin (Thomas) in Headley, Hampshire.

Her mother died on 20 February 1856 in Bramshott, her sister Emma in 1856 in Bramshott and brother James in Farnham in 1858.

In the 1861 census as Martha Barnett aged 10, born in Headley, and living with her uncle and aunt (William and Elizabeth Hack), her cousins (Charles and Annie) and William's father (Charles) in Lindford, Headley, Hampshire.

In the 1871 census as Martha Barnett aged 20, born in Holt, Farnham, Hampshire, single, a domestic servant and living with her father (Mark) and (step)mother (Jane) at Queen Hythe, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey. I cannot find a marriage for her father to a Jane.

Marriage of Martha Barnett and George Lemon in FreeBMD in April-June 1877 in Petersfield (2c 247).

Her three daughters were born in Liss from 1878.

In the 1881 census as Martha Lemon aged 31, born in Hawkley (sic - on the original), Hampshire, and living with her husband (George), and three daughters (Emma J, Martha M and Rosia A) in Hatch Lane, Liss, Hampshire.

Six children were born in Liss to 1888, and ther daughter in Greatham in 1890.

In the 1891 census as Martha Lemon aged 40, born in Hawkley (sic - on the original), Hampshire, and living with her husband (George), four sons (Henry, George, Thomas and William A) and a daughter (Sarah A) in 6 Chandlers Mount Cottages, Forest Road, Greatham, Hampshire.

Her husband died in Greatham in 1900.

In the 1901 census as Martha Lemon aged 45, born in Hawkley (sic - on the original), Hampshire, widowed, and living with her six sons (Frank, Frederick, George, Henry, Thomas and William A), and two daughters (Emma J and Sarah A) in four rooms at 6 Pines Cottages, Greatham, Hampshire.

In the 1911 census as Martha Lemon age 56, born in Hawkley, Hampshire, widowed, married for 34 years with ten children, seven still living, and living with her four sons (Frank, Fred, George and Harry) and grandson (Edward Albery) in four rooms at 6 Pines Cottages, East Liss, Hampshire.

Death of Martha Lemon in FreeBMD in July-September 1914 aged 56 in Petersfield (2c 183).

There are six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Martha Barnett born on 22 December 1850, in Headley, parents Mark Barnett and Eliza Tuckey, three add her marriage to George Lemon in Hampshire in April 1877, her children and her death in Greatham, Hampshire in September 1914.

Relationship

Martha Barnett was the third cousin twice removed of Cyril T Larby, my second cousin once removed.

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