Mrs Annie Martha Martin (née Woodland)

Mrs Annie Martha Martin (nee Woodland), 33, was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands in 1872 the daughter of Alfred William Woodland (1838-1899) and Sarah Saunders (1842-?). Alfred had married Sarah in Netherbury, Dorset on 21 February 1860.  He was a butcher at the time.  They later moved to Guernsey where he continued to work as a butcher for some time but also ran the Half Moon public house in Les Caches Rd, St Martins.  

Her siblings were Bowden Saunders Woodland (1862-1931); Alfred W. Woodland (born 1863); Florence J. Woodland (born 1865); George H. Woodland (born 1878); Frederick C. Woodland (1879-1926); Phoebe Alice Woodland (1880-1951)¹.

Annie married in Ireland in 1893 to a soldier named William Henry Martin.

When she signed-on to the Titanic on 6 April 1912 she gave her address as Posbrook Road, Portsmouth, her sister Phoebe's address. Her last ship had been the Olympic. As a stewardess she received monthly wages of £3 10s.

She was rescued in lifeboat 11.

He husband predeceased her and she seems to have been married under common law to a man named Coghlan.

When her death, on 21 November 1936, was reported in the Western Morning News and Daily Gazette on 26th November her name was given as Mrs Coghlan, but no record of a marriage can be found.

Her sister Mrs Phoebe Alice Humby who registered the death died in 1951.

Notes

1. In 1894 Phoebe (aged 14) was convicted of attempting to murder their father by poisoning him with tea laced with oxalic acid. At the time the father was separated from his wife and Phoebe was frequently left alone at the bar.  She formed a relationship with a soldier and planned to leave home.  Her father disapproved and gave her a caning which prompted the attack. The tea contained sufficient poison to kill three or four people but he did not consume it having tasted it and found it nauseous.   She was sentenced to two year's imprisonment with hard labour.

References and Sources

Agreement and Account of Crew (PRO London, BT100/259)
Western Morning News and Daily Gazette, 26th November 1936
Oxford Journal 1 September 1894
Aberdeen Evening Express 27 August 1894 Attempt to poison a father
Sheffield Daily Telegraph 27 August 1894 Young girl's shocking crime
GRO Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths
Armed Forces Marriages
Census 1881-1911