Born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Henry Bomforth
and Caroline (Shaw) Rankin
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Holstein
— married
1857 in New Zealand
Wife of
Charles Hartley
— married
1861 in New Zealand
Descendants 
Mother of
Anne (Holstein) Murphy, Charles Henry Holstein, William Hartley, George Hartley, Robert John Edward Hartley, George Frederick Hartley, John Christopher Hartley and Agnes Caroline (Hartley) Rogers
Died
at age 38
in New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Aug 2019
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Biography
Martha Bomforth was born in 1841, at East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, the daughter of Henry Bomforth and Caroline Shaw.[1]
The extended Bomforth family emigrated aboard the Olympus, departing from Gravesend, Kent, for New Zealand. Martha is listed simply as a 9-month-old female child travelling with parents Henry, 22, a wood turner, and Caroline, 21, and her father's older brother, John, 37, a carpenter, and his family of wife, Harriett, and five children.[2]
She married William a.k.a. Robert Holstein in 1857 [3]
After he passed away in 1860 she married 2nd Charles Hartley in 1861 [4]
She passed away in 1880 age 42 [5]
Sources
- ↑ England & Wales births, deaths and marriages registrations, General Register Office United Kingdom, Southport, England, HM Passport Office online search Births: Name: BOMFORTH, MARTHA, Mother's Maiden Surname: SHAW, GRO Reference: 1841 S Quarter in EAST RETFORD UNION Volume 15 Page 478
- ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists, 1839-1973," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6P5S-PNX : 6 July 2019), Bomforth, 1842; citing ship , Archives New Zealand, Wellington; FHL microfilm 004508784.
- ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/ NZ Marriage registration 1857/2241
- ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/ NZ Marriage registration 1861/3296
- ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/ NZ Death registration 1880/914
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Categories: Retford, Nottinghamshire | Olympus, sailed 16 June 1842
I would go with the emigration record plus the GRO birth registration having her born 1841, and write the age at death etc as errors/mistranscriptions, or any number of other reasons. (I would NOT go by whatever is on geni, because I have noted entire families that are just so mixed up - with siblings listed as parents and so on. It is good for a general guide, though, to help get you started on searching for accuracy. Much like find a grave can be used as a guide, but should not be taken as 100% accurate, unless you added the information yourself.) You would then not the age at death as being off by x years.