Daisy Shelton (formerly Martin, née Burnell)
Daisy Burnell
1885-1952
Daisy Burnell was the third known child of George Burnell and Mary Ann Barker of London. Daisy was born in Kilburn (now absorbed by London) and after her father, George - a publican, died in 1891 in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, her mother brought the family to Littleport, Cambridgeshire. It is here that her young widowed mother, Mary Ann, set up a new life and remarried to a Mr. James Smith.
Daisy and her sister Lillie worked for Hope Brothers shirt factory in Littleport and they both appear on the 1901 census with their Step-father James Smith and her half-sister, Winifred May Smith.
Seven years later, Daisy married Herbert Martin (1884-1917) of nearby Little Downham and they had four children, all sons but sadly it wasn't long before she too was widowed when Herbert was killed in a train accident in France whilst on his way home at the end of the First World War. Their youngest child, Cyril, was no more than a year old.
Daisy later married Reuben Shelton of Little Downham, Cambridgeshire and together they went on to have three children.
Further Details
Born:
16th November 1885, The Stables, Abercorn Place, Kilburn, Middlesex (now London).
Married:
- Herbert Martin (1884-1917) on 20th October 1908 at Littleport church, Cambridgeshire.
- Reuben Shelton (1881-1954)
Children:
- Sydney James Martin (1910-1977) married Mima Sparrow (19??-?)
- Herbert George Martin (1911-1985) married Ada Murfitt and Olive Eunice Payton
- Percy Martin (1914-1991) married Edna Olga Newman (1916-1986) and Irene Pearson (1920-?)
- Cyril William Martin (1916-2006) married Margaret Barrett.
- Edith Rose Shelton (1920-1995) married Bert Merrit
- Maurice Shelton (1922-1984) married Marjory Gillett
- Hugh Shelton (1925-1994) married Valerie Upchurch
Died:
10th February 1952, Fourth Drove, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire. Aged 66 years.
Buried:
with her second husband in Little Downham cemetery, Cambridgeshire.