Birth: About 1832, Southwick, Sussex, UK
Father: William Young 1803-1868
Mother: Sarah Young 1813-1878
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1853 Brighton, Sussex, UK
Husband: Absalom Woolgar c1832-1903
Death: January-March 1901 City of London, UK, UK
Cordelia Woolgar 1855-a1875
Emily Woolgar 1866-1902
Frederick William Woolgar 1868-a1889
Abert Edward Woolgar 1872-1926
In the 1841 census as Marthar Young aged 10, born in Sussex, and living with William and Sarah (parents?), Robert and William (brothers?), and Sarah (sister?) in East Street, New Shoreham, Sussex.
In the 1851 census as Matha Young aged 19, born in Southwick, Sussex, and living with her parents (William and Sarah), four brothers (Jeannet, Joseph, Robert and William), and two sisters (Mercy and Sarah) in East Street, New Shoreham, Sussex.
Marriage of Martha Young and Absalom Woolgar in FreeBMD in April-June 1853 in Brighton (2b 315).
In the 1861 census as Martha Woolgar aged 28, born in Southwick, Sussex, married but not with her husband, a mariner's wife and living with her daughter (Cordelia) in Shoreham Road, Southwick, Sussex. This address was shared with another family.
In the 1871 census as Martha Woolgar aged 58 (sic - in the index, 38 on the original), born in Shoreham, Sussex, married but not with her husband, a millener and dressmakerand living with her son (Frederick W), daughter (Emily), and two lodgers (George Maskell aged 26, born in Brightlingsea, Sussex, single and a mariner, and Frances Hobden aged 69, born in Brighton, Sussex, widowed and a laundress) in Norfolk Terrace, Southwick, Sussex. Her husband Abslom Woolgar was mate on the Day Star in Shoreham Harbour.
In the 1881 census as Martha Young aged 49, born in Sussex, and living with her husband (Absalom), two sons (Albert and Fredk), daughter (Emily), and three boarders (John Young - her brother, Edward Daffern aged 23, born in Warwickshire and a mariner, and John Williams aged 20, born in Worcestershire and a groom, both single) at 83 Princes Road, St James Bermondsey, Surrey.
In the 1891 census as Matha Woolgar aged 59, born in Shoreham, Sussex and living with her husband (Absalom) at 16 Salisbury Street, St James Bermondsey, London.
Death of Martha Woolgar in FreeBMD in January-March 1901 aged 69 in London City (1c 13).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Martha Young born about 1832 in Southwick, Sussex, parents William and Sarah Young.
Matha Young was the first cousin once removed of Ellen, wife of Thomas Paine, my eighth cousin three times removed.
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