WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. Henry Martin, according to a letter to the Board, was working in the new Corning House when it blew up on the 18th April 1801, with a tremendous explosion. Nine men in the building including Henry Martin, were killed, along with four horses (Supply 5/220 dated the 19th April 1801). 2. Supply 5/194, a Petition dated the 24th April, 1801, stated that Henry's mother, Mary, requested, along with the other widows and mothers, "relief in their distress." 3. Supply 5/220 dated the 29th April 1801 - a report on ages of children and circumstances of widows and children - recorded that Mary Martin, the deceased's mother, was aged 54. Her husband had left her "several years ago" and she had been supported by her son, Henry, who lived with her.