Sir William Martin
High Sheriff of Essex
Abt 1594 - Abt 1679 (~ 85 years)-
Name William Martin Relationship 
with Marion Murdoch Johnson Gender Male Birth Abt 1594 Baptism 13 Oct 1594 St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, England 
[1, 2] Residence Aft 1618 Netteswell, Harlow, Essex, England Occupation 1653 High Sheriff of Essex Death Abt 1679 [3] Burial 14 Dec 1679 St Andrew, Netteswell, Harlow, Essex, England [4, 5] Siblings1 brother and 1 sister Last Modified 24 Jan 2021
Father Cuthbert Martin
b. Abt 1551
d. Abt 1615 (Age ~ 64 years)Mother Margaret Manning
b. Abt Oct 1569
d. Abt 1603 (Age ~ 33 years)
Wife Marie Lee
b. Abt Dec 1600
d. Abt 1651 (Age ~ 50 years)Children 1. Elizabeth Martin
b. Abt 1635
d. Abt Feb 1683 (Age ~ 48 years)2. Cuthbert Martin
b. Between 1616 and 1651
d. [J] 1698 (Age ~ 82 years)Last Modified 8 Apr 2020
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Notes - Of
Woodford (originally) and laterNettleswell : https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp206-213#anchorn35:
Sir Jerome's son Sir Richard, later earl of Portland, minister to James I and Charles I, sold Netteswell in 1618 to Sir William Martin of Woodford.
Sir William Martin was succeeded in 1679 by his son Cuthbert (d. 1697) whose son, another William Martin, died childless in 1717. Netteswell had been settled on William's wife Mary (d. 1764). She was succeeded by the Revd. Matthew Blucke of Hunsdon (Herts.), a descendant of Cuthbert Martin's sister. Blucke, who took the surname Martin, died in 1766 leaving Netteswell to his son, also Matthew Martin. Matthew Martin sold Netteswell c. 1772 to Thomas Blackmore of Briggens, in Hunsdon. (fn. 37) In 1778 the estate comprised 797 a. (fn. 38)
Netteswellbury manor house adjoined the church to the west. It was let to tenants until c. 1640, when Sir William Martin moved there. It seems to have remained the family seat until the death of William Martin in 1717
I have tentatively assigned him a birth date in 1594, based on a baptismal record for the son of Cuthbert Martin; the only evidence I have that this is the right person is that Cuthbert seems to be a family name, and the dates are about right. The baptismal location atSt Andrew Undershaft corresponds with many other baptism and burial notices for the coeval and older family (for instance, the burial record for William's mother Margaret and his father Cuthbert, as well as his wife Marie Lee and her family).
FamilySearch trees give his wife as Mary Lee; this is corroborated by a Boyd's Inhabitants of London record for William's father Cuthbert.
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Event Map 
Baptism - 13 Oct 1594 - St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, England 
Residence - Aft 1618 - Netteswell, Harlow, Essex, England 
Burial - 14 Dec 1679 - St Andrew, Netteswell, Harlow, Essex, England = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S0121] Ancestry, England, Select Births & Christenings 1538-1975, (ancestry.com), 13 Oct 1594, William Martin; England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.; FHL Film Number 374408, 374409.
- [S0307] FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, (familysearch.org), 13 Oct 1594, William Martin; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NL56-13R : 21 March 2020), William Martin, 1594. (Reliability: 0).
- [S0189] British History Online, Nettleswell; https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp206-213.
- [S0377] Ancestry, Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, (ancestry.co.uk), 14 Dec 1679, Sir William Martin; Essex Record Office; Chelmsford, Essex, England; Essex Church of England Parish Registers.
- [S0071] FindMyPast, National Burial Index for England & Wales, (findmypast.co.uk), 14 Dec 1679, William Martin; St Andrew, Netteswell, Essex.
- [S0121] Ancestry, England, Select Births & Christenings 1538-1975, (ancestry.com), 13 Oct 1594, William Martin; England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.; FHL Film Number 374408, 374409.