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Charles Henry MARTIN & Nellie Gertrude HIBBITT


Image Charles Martin and Nellie (nee Hibbitt)
Charles Martin and Nellie (nee Hibbitt)

Husband: Charles Henry MARTIN 1 2
Born: ABT 1903 3
Married:
 23 APR 1927
 in Plympton St Mary, Plymouth, Devon 17 18
Died:
 9 APR 1942
 in HMS Hermes off Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) 4
Father: Albert Charles MARTIN
Mother: Sarah Louise ?
Spouses: 
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Wife: Nellie Gertrude HIBBITT 5 6 7
Born:
 25 SEP 1897
 in Queensboro, St Peters North, Drogheda, Ireland 8 9 10 11
Died:
 2 MAY 1966
 in Plymouth, Devon 12 13
Buried:
 1966
 in Drake Memorial Park, Plymouth, Devon 16
Father: ALFRED CHARLES NEWBOLD HIBBITT
Mother: ALICE RIDLEY
Spouses: 
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Associated Links

Individual photos of Charles Martin.
Individual photos of Nellie Hibbitt.
Group photographs including Charles Martin and Nellie Hibbitt.
Photographs of the Naval Memorial in Plymouth where Charles Martin is commemorated.
Panel 63 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial where Charles Martin's name appears.
Grave of Nellie G Martin (nee Hibbitt) at Drake Memorial Park in Plymouth, Devon.

Additional Information

Charles Henry MARTIN:

Charles went down in HMS Hermes on 9th April 1942 off Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka), during World War II. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial on Plymouth Hoe.

Nellie Gertrude HIBBITT:
Residence: 1901, Point Rural, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland 14
Residence: 1942, Tavistock, Devon 15

Nellie's father was a coastguard and apparently the coastguard cottages still exist in Queensboro where she was born in 1897. Nellie died on 2nd May 1966, aged 68, and is buried in Drake Memorial Park in Plymouth with her brother, Charles George Hibbitt.


Footnotes

  1. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
    Name: MARTIN, CHARLES HENRY.
  2. England and Wales, Marriage Index: 1837-1983.
    Name: Charles H Martin.
  3. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
    Age: 39, Date of Death: 09/04/1942.
  4. Ibid.
    Name: MARTIN, CHARLES HENRY
    Initials: C H
    Nationality: United Kingdom
    Rank: Lieut-Commander (E)
    Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
    Unit Text: H.M.S. Hermes
    Age: 39
    Date of Death: 09/04/1942
    Additional information: Son of Albert Charles and Sarah Louise Martin; husband of Nellie Gertrude Martin, of Tavistock, Devon.
    Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 63, Column 1.
    Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL.
  5. Birth Record, General Register Office (Ireland) - Births.
    Name: Nellie Gertrude.
  6. England and Wales, Marriage Index: 1837-1983.
    Name: Nellie G Hibbitt.
  7. 1901 Ireland Census, The National Archives of Ireland.
    Nellie Hibbitt.
  8. Memorial Inscription, Grave plaque in Drake Memorial Park, Plymouth, Devon.
    Date of Birth: 25.9.1897.
  9. Birth Record, General Register Office (Ireland).
    Births Registered in the District of St Peters North in the Union of Drogheda in the County of Louth.
    Date and Place of Birth: 1897 25th September, Queensboro.
    Name: Nellie Gertrude.
    Sex: Female.
    Name and Surname and Dwelling Place of Father: Alfred Hibbitt, Queensboro.
    Name and Surname and Maiden Surname of Mother: Alice Hibbitt formerly Ridley.
    Rank or Profession of father: Coastguard.
    Signature, Qualification and Residence of Informant: Alfred Hibbitt, Father, Queensboro.
    When Registered: November 19th 1897.
  10. England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005.
    Death Registration Month/Year: 1966, Age at death (estimated): 68.
  11. 1901 Ireland Census, The National Archives of Ireland.
    Nellie Hibbitt. Dau. Wes. 3. Born Co. Louth.
  12. Memorial Inscription, Grave plaque in Drake Memorial Park, Plymouth, Devon.
    Date: 2nd May 1966.
  13. England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005.
    Name: Nellie G Martin
    Death Registration Month/Year: 1966
    Age at death (estimated): 68
    Registration district: Plymouth
    Inferred County: Devonshire
    Volume: 7a
    Page: 713.
  14. 1901 Ireland Census, The National Archives of Ireland.
    Point Rural, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland
    Alice Hibbitt. Head + Wife. Wesleyan. 29. Married. Born England.
    Alfred Hibbitt. Son. Wesleyan. 5. Scholar. Born England.
    Nellie Hibbitt. Dau. Wesleyan. 3. Born Co. Louth.
    Charles Hibbitt. Son. Wesleyan. 2. Born Co. Louth.
  15. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, War graves record for husband, Charles Henry Martin.
    Name: MARTIN, CHARLES HENRY...husband of Nellie Gertrude Martin, of Tavistock, Devon...
  16. Memorial Inscription, Grave plaque in Drake Memorial Park, Plymouth, Devon.
    IN LOVING MEMORY
    NELLIE G MARTIN
    25.9.1897 - 2.5.1966
    CHARLES G HIBBITT
    1.12.1898 - 8.10.1972
    IVY A HIBBITT
    1.9.1904 - 2.7.1992.
  17. England and Wales, Marriage Index: 1837-1983.
    Name: Nellie G Hibbitt
    Year of Registration: 1927
    Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
    Spouse's Surname: Martin
    District: Plympton St Mary
    County: Cornwall, Devon
    Volume: 5b
    Page: 538.
  18. Ibid.
    Name: Charles H Martin
    Year of Registration: 1927
    Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
    Spouse's Surname: Hibbitt
    District: Plympton St Mary
    County: Cornwall, Devon
    Volume: 5b
    Page: 538.


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