Richard’s Genealogy
Catherine Percy
1761 - 1826 (~ 64 years)
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Name Catherine Percy Gender Female Christened 6 Dec 1761 Bray, Berkshire, England 
[1] Buried 21 Apr 1826 Bray, Berkshire, England [2] Age: 78 Person ID I3525 Richard's Genealogy Last Modified 25 Aug 2018
Father John Percy, b. Est 1740 Mother Sarah Day, b. Est 1740, bur. 15 Jan 1788, Bray, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 48 years) Married 27 Apr 1760 Bray, Berkshire, England [3] 
Siblings7 siblings Notes - Hannah, Thomas, James and William were spelt Pearce in the baptism register, while John, Catherine, Edward and Sarah were spelt Pearcey. The regular sequence of the children and lack of repeated names strongly suggests a single family. [4]
Family ID F944 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Richard Martin, bp. 7 Dec 1746, Warfield, Berkshire, England , bur. 24 Jan 1836, Bray, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 89 years) Married 10 Sep 1780 Bray, Berkshire, England [5] Notes - The 11 year gap between the first two children and the 26 year span between first and last child would ordinarily suggest two families, but all but the first of the children's baptisms give the mother's maiden name as Percy (or a variant thereof: Pearce, Piercey, and in one case Pace), and the only Martin-Percy marriage was in 1780, a month before the first child's baptism.
Children 1. Catherine Martin, bp. 29 Oct 1780, Bray, Berkshire, England 2. John Martin, b. 18 Aug 1791 3. Samuel Martin, b. 28 Mar 1794 4. Edmund Martin, b. 13 Jul 1796 5. Dinah Martin, b. 22 Aug 1798 + 6. Susan Martin, b. 3 Mar 1801, Bray, Berkshire, England , d. 1891, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (Age 89 years)7. Mary Martin, b. 1 Feb 1803 8. Catherine Martin, b. 1 Feb 1803 9. Moses Martin, b. 30 Sep 1806, bur. 7 Apr 1809, Bray, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 2 years)Last Modified 25 Aug 2018 Family ID F942 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Having children over 26 years is not impossible if the mother married fairly young, especially if there were other children during the 1780-91 gap who were perhaps baptised elsewhere or are otherwise not recorded. However the only burial is for a Catherine, wife of Richard Marton of Braywoodside, in Bray in 1826, aged 78. If correct, that puts her birth in about 1748 and makes her an impossibly old 58 when Moses was born. The burial at Bray of a Richard Martin of Braywoodside in 1836, aged 89, puts his birth in about 1747, which adds consistency to Catherine's age. Their son Moses was describes as the son of Richard Martin of Braywoodside when he was buried, which tends to confirm we have the right family as it was only a tiny hamlet.
If Catherine was from Berkshire, the only plausible baptism I can find in either the IGI or the BFHS index (even as far back as 1748) is one in 1761 in Bray. This would make her 19 when she married and a much more plausible 45 when Moses was born. The mother of the Catherine baptised in 1761 was buried in 1788 when she was referred to as of Braywoodside, where the Martin family later lived. It seems to me this is almost certainly the right baptism, and most probably the age on Catherine's burial is wrong. [1, 2, 4]
- Having children over 26 years is not impossible if the mother married fairly young, especially if there were other children during the 1780-91 gap who were perhaps baptised elsewhere or are otherwise not recorded. However the only burial is for a Catherine, wife of Richard Marton of Braywoodside, in Bray in 1826, aged 78. If correct, that puts her birth in about 1748 and makes her an impossibly old 58 when Moses was born. The burial at Bray of a Richard Martin of Braywoodside in 1836, aged 89, puts his birth in about 1747, which adds consistency to Catherine's age. Their son Moses was describes as the son of Richard Martin of Braywoodside when he was buried, which tends to confirm we have the right family as it was only a tiny hamlet.
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Sources - [S60] Berkshire Baptisms CD, (Berkshire Family History Society).
- [S7] Berkshire Burials CD, (Berkshire Family History Society).
- [S9] International Genealogical Index, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (FamilySearch), M018591.
- [S9] International Genealogical Index, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (FamilySearch), P018591.
- [S159] Berkshire Marriages CD, (Berkshire Family History Society).
- [S60] Berkshire Baptisms CD, (Berkshire Family History Society).