Editing Martha Tabram (section)

== Overview ==
===Early Life===
Martha White was born in Southwark, the youngest of five children to Charles and Elizabeth White.  The family was living at 17 Marshall St and her father worked as a fobbing porter - a type of independent porter for hire that usually had several clients around the neighborhood.  Being that the short Marshall street was just a few blocks east of the famous Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum (Bedlam), it is possible that he was a part time employee there.  According to a daughter later (documentation still needed), Charles became ill in 1865 and moved away from the family to Pitt St where he died shortly afterward.  The mother followed in Oct of 1869, leaving Martha unmarried and alone at the age of 20.

===Married Life===
Not long after her mother death, Martha married on Christmas Day 1869 at Trinity Church to a man named Henry Samuel Tabram.  Henry was recently widowed and had at least one child, an 8 year old son named Henry. Some online tress give an additional three children, Matilda (died as an infant in 1864), Matilda Ann (1865-1949), and Amy (died as an infant in 1868).  I have not yet been able to document these additional children and Matilda is not listed with the family in the 1871 census.