Hello all I am not finding it easy to trace my MARTIN line! My first problem was that my father passed away some 16 years ago way before my interest in family history. My grandfather did not keep in contact with his sisters and his father Henry MARTIN died in 1910 when my grandfather was 18. So there was very little family knowledge. So far I have the following Henry MARTIN was born between 1856/1858 in Ballingdon Essex (near Sudbury, Suffolk) This birthplace is given on the 1881 and 1891 census. I have searched the birth indexes at the FRC and cannot find a Henry MARTIN born in these 3 years These years tie up with the 1881 1891 census ,death certificate and marriage certificate. He was married to Elizabeth NEWMAN on 8th July 1877 at the Sudbury Register Office. Henry's father is given as Thomas MARTIN deceased. Henry and Elizabeth had 8 daughters and one son Charles Henry MARTIN (my grandfather) born 30th Sept 1892. Well this is as far as I have got!! Kevin Martin