Henry
Hennah
Martin
Born in North Bierley, Yorkshire, England
Son of Alexander Hennah Martin
and Mary Ann (Saville) Martin
Brother of
Ellen Martin, Thomas Hennah Martin, Robert Hennah Martin, Mary Ann Martin and Alexander Hennah Martin [half]
Husband of
Annie Maria (Sellwood) Martin
— married
19 Nov 1879 in Chatham Islands
Descendants 
Father of
Lavinia Mary (Martin) Livingstone, Agnes Isabel (Martin) Ruddick, George Alexander Martin, Henry Saville Martin, Allan Elvine Martin, Sydney Alfred Martin, Leonard Maurice Martin, Annie Ellen Leticia (Martin) Phelan, Norah Ruby (Martin) Herlihy, Eveleen (Martin) Wilson and William Sellwood Martin
Died
at age 60
in Stratford, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Jan 2018
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Biography
Henry was born in North Bierley, Yorkshire, England, and he was baptised on 23 March 1859, at Bradford St Peter (Bradford Cathedral), in Yorkshire, England, at the age of two. By 1871, the family have moved to 367 Govan Road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and Henry's father Alexander, now remarried, is a Woolen manufacturer. Henry, aged 14, is a clerk in manufactory, and he has a half-brother called Alexander, aged three.
Henry Hennah Martin and Anna Maria Selwood were married in 1879, with seven of their children being born at the Chatham islands where they lived on Pitt Island. Henry worked as a shepherd, leasing land from Frederick Hunt. When Henry and Frederick fell out, in 1895, Henry and his family shifted to Christchurch, in New Zealand, and lived at Mataura for some time. Their next two children were born at Mataura. The Martin family - Henry and Annie Maria and children arrived in Taneatua in 1898, just two years after the Awakeri block was subdivided, and the last two children were born in the Whakatane district Henry farmed in the district until 1914, and then he moved to Uruti, Taranaki, where he died in 1917.
(N.B. The Beacon newspaper article says he farmed at Taneatua until 1917, and then moved to Taranaki, but this is incorrect.)
Sources
- Martin family records
- Henry Martin in the West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910
- Henry Martin in the 1861 England census
- Alexander H Martin (father of Henry) in the 1871 Scotland census.
- ancestry.com Henry Martin in the 1871 Scotland census Parish:Govan; ED:42; Page:31; Line:4; Roll:CSSCT1871_143
- Book: "In Eternal Memory - Eastern Bay of Plenty WW1 Fallen".
- Newspaper article "Bay of Plenty Beacon" 24 Feb 1941
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