Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Martin (née Lespinasse)

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Biography

Co-heir to a 'considerable personal estate' and one moiety of the New Orange Nassau estate in Demerara. She married her husband Anthony Crosby Martin at Gretna Green in 1802. The couple borrowed against, and then mortgaged the estate, to London merchants.


Sources

The estate was subject to the Chancery suit of Martin v. Martin in 1831, between the mortgagees of the estate (James Bell, partner with Charles Reed in Reed, Bell and then Bell and Grant, and Bell's heir James Christian Clement Bell) and Anthony Crosbie Martin and his wife Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Martin [nee Lespinasse], 'Martin v Martin', Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery Vol. II 1831 (1837) pp. 507 et seq. .


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Maiden Name
Lespinasse
Spouse
Anthony Crosby Martin

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1802 [EA] - → Joint owner

Relationships (2)

Sister → Brother
Wife → Husband