Martha Eleanor Nixon

  General Notes:

Marriage certificate obtained from St catherine's House on 6th August
Marriage took place on 11th April 1881, Martha was 18 years old and Cuthbert
Spens Douse was 20 years old.
This puts her birth date as between 11 April 1862 and 11 April 1863.

St Catherine's House registers 1 birth that year Martha Eleanor Nixon in Dec 1862.

Notes from Clara Louise Brown:
According to a letter from Harry Spens Stonehouse, son of John Thomas Stonehouse, Martha, his aunt, died of war injuries in Glasgow as did 2 grdchrn, a boy and girl, 9 and 11, during the big air raid in 1942. Two other grandchildren left England after the war and went to Canada to a relative named Nathaniel Douse. Index of Death record for Martha Ellen Douse, age 81, Old Kilpatrick, 250, Lanarkshire; the actual death record gives Dunbarton as the county, living at 17 Dunn Street in Dalmuir, cause of death Influenza; Marriage record gives surname as Nixon; 1881 Census of Westgate, Northumberland, England, RG11, Piece 5048, Folio 88 page 22;

Stella Cunningham remembers visting the family in Glasgow. Martha did not die in the air raid but dies a year later. The children who died were Thomas (11) and Ellen(9) - their mother (Jane?) had already died of breast cancer.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1881, Westgate, Newcastle Tyne, Northumberland, England.

• Occupation: Dressmaker, 1881.

Martha married Nathaniel Spens Douse, son of Cuthbert Douse and Sarah Ann Spens, on 11 Apr 1881 in Register Office, Newcastle-o-Tyne, Northumberland, England. (Nathaniel Spens Douse was born on 7 Aug 1860 in Westgate, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England, baptised on 11 Sep 1860 in St. Nicholas, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England and died in 1927.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1901, Westgate, Newcastle Tyne, Northumberland, England. Living at 14 Edward Street with 7 children

• Census, 1891, Westgate, Newcastle Tyne, Northumberland, England. Age 30 and living at 14 Edward Street.