For anyone who's interested in Bosham genealogy, I'd recommend Bygone Bosham by Angela Bromley-Martin (thanks for the tip, Helen). It features many photographs of the families of Bosham from yesteryear.
Of particular interest is one George Martin, pictured with his daughter and his son's daughter. According to the author, George eloped with the vicar's daughter in the 1870's or 1880's and whose brothers ran the Anchor and Shipp pubs in Bosham.
Research reveals this to be an accurate rumour.
He eloped to Southampton with Charlotte Sophie Mitchell, who appears with her father, Rev Henry Mitchell in 1871 in the Vicarage, along with whole heap of siblings.
George was a Mariner, like almost all of the Martins of Bosham, certainly in that era anyway. They eloped to Southampton and were married in South Stoneham in Jul-Sep 1873. Before returning shame-faced to Bosham, it appears that they had two children in Southampton, Ella Gertrude (1873) and Claude (1874). They then appear to settle back in Bosham and continue having children, starting with Nora Beatrice in 1878.
There doesn't seem to be a Baptism record for Nora in Bosham - I wonder why that might be ;)
George is my great, great, great, great uncle.
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