Sarah MARTIN was the daughter of John & Mary MARTIN, bapt. 25 Dec 1769 at St Matthew, Bethnal Green. She was my 4g-grandmother, and I would like to get further back along this line, but cannot think of how to make progress, as the surname occurs so frequently. Most of her husband's branch of the family were French Huguenot, and it is possible that her surname was French - but again, it occurs frequently in the French records, and I cannot see a way through.
On 1 June 1852 Sarah was accidentally run down by a horse-drawn cart close to her house in Green Street, BG, and she died on the way to hospital. Eye-witness evidence by her grandson, Richard, is to be found in the transcription of the trial of the carter (poor old boy - I feel rather sorry for him) in the Old Bailey online records, but it does not help me with Sarah's own antecedents. Her married name at that time was MILLO.
Can anybody please suggest how I might go about tracking this line further into the past? I have worldwide membership of Ancestry and I make extensive use of the Rœlly website of French Protestants in Picardy, which can be found at: http://www.roelly.org/~pro_picards/prop/index.html (I think everybody should know about this site, which is quite superb).
On 1 June 1852 Sarah was accidentally run down by a horse-drawn cart close to her house in Green Street, BG, and she died on the way to hospital. Eye-witness evidence by her grandson, Richard, is to be found in the transcription of the trial of the carter (poor old boy - I feel rather sorry for him) in the Old Bailey online records, but it does not help me with Sarah's own antecedents. Her married name at that time was MILLO.
Can anybody please suggest how I might go about tracking this line further into the past? I have worldwide membership of Ancestry and I make extensive use of the Rœlly website of French Protestants in Picardy, which can be found at: http://www.roelly.org/~pro_picards/prop/index.html (I think everybody should know about this site, which is quite superb).
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