Emily (Elston)Martin

We received this email.
I have been trying to research my great grandmother Emily (Elston) Martin who married Ethelbert White and lived at Manor Place London.
Please see photos below of Manor Place taken earlier this year, I thought they may be of interest.
My understanding is that this site is soon to be demolished, like much of London these buildings are being pulled down to make way for luxury apartments.
If you have any information or photos of Emily Ethelbert we would love to see them. Unfortunately our grandmother would never speak of her mother nor did she keep any photos so we have no idea what she looked like or indeed what she was like.
The only information that we have found is that she was widowed and then married Ethelbert White. Following Ethelbert's death she then went on to commit suicide at Manor Place in 1931, all a bit of a sad story.






And of course when the White family is involved we ask Ray for advice .

he informed us

The 1920 Hughes Business Directory still shows “White E fishmonger 171 Manor Place, SE17”. His first wife, Kate has died at home in the presence of her husband on 23rd November 1913 from a “cerebral haemorrhage and coma” aged, according to the death certificate, ‘53’ and he has married again at the Southwark Register Office on the first of June 1920. Emily Rosina Miriam Martin is a widow and, at 43, some 14 years younger than her widower husband. The marriage certificate shows her as a “Housekeeper (Domestic)” and her father as (William) George Elston, a vellum binder. 

Grandfather William Elston was a much travelled and ‘adaptable’ man. The 1851 census shows him as a bricklayer and fishmonger and his children are born in Coleyweston, Rutland, Louth, Northampton and Sheffield. According to another treeholder Grandmother Emily Close was daughter of Laetitia Elizabeth Shield, apparently known as Eliza, born in Kensington at a time when when her father was vicar or rector of Collyweston and who married a ‘slater’ in Collyweston. (At least one interpreter of his handwriting has ‘translated’ his child as ‘Emery’ and not Emily!)
He wrote back that he did not know much more than this and that his great grandfather was a character .
He has hisfamilytree on Ancestry and here is the adress .
My family tree is on Ancestry and Ethelbert Ernest is:

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/70904764/person/38220728248