Identity area
Reference code
AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX19-E-182
Title
Legatee : Martha (Beams) Martin
Date(s)
- 1867-1874 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
17 documents
Context area
Name of creator
(1801-1883)
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence from Martha (Beams) Martin 1867, 1872 – 1874
Daughter of Ann (Beams) Story, born about 1845, married John Martin in 1864. Requests for money, Emma (1872), send money weekly not quarterly, working at dress makers - sometimes 9s a week (Apr. 1874), mother's death (Aug. 1874), 3 children (Sept. 74), mother's will (Oct.74), going to New Zealand - sewing business (Dec. 1874). Also copy of authority to raise £100 on her expectations (1871), and letters from lawyers on behalf of M.M. requesting payment of or advances of her legacy or an account of trust moneys from : Elliston & Burbury (1867), R. Fitzgerald (1869), John B. Hull (1870), A. Inglis Clark (1878).