Lavinia was the youngest child of John and Mary Harris and grew to be a very large lady.  She married at Swansea Registry Office aged 18 when seven months pregnant.  Her husband, John Richard Martin, Sr, was from St Just in Cornwall and worked in the Morriston collieries as: an engine driver, a stoker, a stationary engineer and later a sawyer.  Martin never forgot his boyhood friend Clemens.  They had made a vow that their children would marry, a foolish promise.  Their children:

John Richard Martin, Jr, born 1879.  He was a blacksmith and later substation engineer.  He had a shop at 62 Martin Street and became Mayor of Swansea the year war broke out.  His son Howard founded the stained glass department at Swansea Art College.

Eva Martin, born 1892 was the youngest child and died aged seven.  She is buried with her parents in Morriston Cemetery.

William Harris Martin, born 1872.  He married Elizabeth Clemens in Cornwall aged 25, the daughter of his father's childhood friend.  It was described as a 'marriage made in hell'.  They produced a daughter but then Willie began his long period roaming.  He and his brothers went to Canton, Ohio, home of their cousin Mary Hynam.  Willie returned in about 1907 and the couple's second daughter was born.  Willie worked as a blacksmith at Ystradyfadog and a haulier in the mines at Seven Sisters.  His wife died and then their youngest daughter, from pneumonia.  In 1913 Eva was sent to live with her grandfather in Cornwall and Vera stayed with her grandfather Martin, and his housekeeper, in Morriston.  Willie carried on a-roaming and died age 57.

Edward Thomas Martin, blacksmith, born 1884.  Edward arrived in New York on the steamer from Liverpool age 21 and went to join his brother in Ohio.  His parents' house, 64 Vicarage Road, Morriston was renamed 'Cleveland' because of their boys working in Ohio.  Ed. returned to Britain and settled in Yorkshire where he worked as a blacksmith and produced a daughter.