m 17.12.1763 Beaminster, bu 22.8.1792 Swansea. Dorset Supplement Sec. 18.
hanged 15.4.1801 at Stone gallows, Taunton. His marriage came to light in the last stages of earlier research, after burial of 11.7.1802 had been attributed to the only other early Martha on record (c 25.7.1788); it seems more likely that the burial relates to Robert's wife.
Tiverton St, Peter. A 19.11.1815 burial of Elizabeth at the game church (age 33 years) could refer to sister Betty c 26.6.1783, in which cage the attributed marriage (in the name Betty) does not relate; alternative candidates Elizabeths c 22.3.1789 (2b) and 25.12.1790 (1d).