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In conversation with Albert J. Martin, about 78, in his shop in Bunyan's Cove
last week (while waiting for the Charlottetown ferry, en route with
J.R.Smallwood & party for the opening of the Ladle Cove road), he - a son of
Thomas Martin who was, he says, the second Bird Island Cove man to settle at
Bunyan's Cove (Geo Miles being the first) - he, AJ, being a boy then - confirmed
to me
(a) that his father's father, Joseph Martin, the English immigrant to
BI Cove, was a Bungay, who had run away from England for fear
of capture by the authorities as he was a smuggler and had, as
disguise taken his mother's name of Martin.
(B) that the Bungay's of the north side of Bonavista Bay were descended from his
brother. He also told me that years ago, some of these Bungays, in Elliston in
a schooner, came ashore and made the acquaintances of his father & brother, as
relations.
NC Crewe
St. John's
15 Nov 1958
[TC Note: Joseph Bungay was probably from Cranborne, Dorset.]
In perusing the list of sealers of �The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster', one would
never know that a young Charles Lodge, (then about age 16) born Catalina, was a survivor
of that dreadful event.
I am not sure of the circumstances but, as a boy, Charley ended up in the household of
William Martin at Elliston and assumed the Martin name; but, no matter how much Charley
had tried to be a Martin, it would never be: the people of Elliston would forever refer
to him as Charley Lodge even after several generations. Oddly his daughter who still
lives at Elliston was called Martin without hesitation.
[UE Note: See also The Crisby/Martin connection on the Eastport Peninsula - Martin to Crisby and,
in some cases, back to Martin]
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