Walter James Martin
(1878-1936)

Walter James Martin was the third of the twelve children of James Martin and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Giddings of Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.

Walter appears to have spent his entire life in Little Downham, where on the village censuses of 1901 and 1911, he is noted as working in agriculture - first as a labourer, then as a tool man on a farm.

He married Rebecca Ann Lythell in 1901, and settled down to have a family of six children. The penultimate child (James Murfiatt Martin) sadly died when he was just 7 months old.

Walter predeceased his wife by 18 years.

Life Events

Born

• 25th March 1878 in Little Downham Fen, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.

Married

• Rebecca Ann Lythell (1879-1954) on 19th October 1901, at St. Leonard's Church, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.

Children

• Elizabeth Emily Martin (1901-19??) married Walter Wilson (1893-1952)
• Hilda Rose Martin (1903-1968) married Walter Richer (1900-1979)
• William Harold Martin (1907-?) married Queenie Agnes Arch (1908-1990)
• Horace Edward Martin (1909-1971) married Eliza Betsy Fisher (1913-?)
• James Murfiatt Martin (1912-1913)
• Jack Albert Martin (1917-1977) married Elsie May Hopkin (1922-1996)

Census and Residence

• 1881: 3yrs, Main Drove House on railway, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1891: 13yrs, Railway House, A Furlong Drove, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1901: 23yrs, A Furlong Drove, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1911: 33yrs, Little Downham Fen, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.

Employment

• 1901: Agricultural Labourer
• 1911: Toolman on Farm

Death

• 17th August 1936, aged 58 years.

Burial

• 20th August 1936 at Lawn Lane Cemetery, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England.