There are two entries for her in the FamilySearch web site. One lists the middle name as Decina and the other as Recina.40 Bessie Lina Burt’s family tree lists “Martha Decina”. They guessed her birthplace as Westminster but the 1881 British Census states Monmouth.

In the 1901 census living in “Snitterfield (Park View)”, age 43 as of census date (Mar 31, 1901), living with her husband, daughter and a servant. She is listed as “Marion D.”, confirming the middle initial but casting doubt on her first name (either it’s a mistake or her name was Marion and she was known as Martha). Her birthplace, although mistakenly transcribed as Warwickshire in the index, looks like “Monmouthshire St. James” in the original handwriting.38 Monmouthshire is modern-day Gwent county in Wales.

From son Cyril’s recollections:
“On my mother’s side the genealogy is less complete. She was an Evans from Monmouth, proud of her Welsh descent. Nevertheless she always feared that I might develop the failings of the Celt, particularly the “irresponsible artistic temperament” of her brother. He was an erratic landscape painter, who taught me water colors and who ended a long bohemian life in a solitary hut at the top of the Kymin. At home there were large paintings by my uncle hanging on the walls...My mother, who was new to London, was schocked by the condition of the barefoot urchins in the Pimlico slums, and used to give informal help at the “ragged school” with which my grandfather was connected. Oliver Twist was the novel she most frequently quoted..The interests of my mother and her artist-brother were frankly romantic; from them I learned to love Scott, Shelley, Turner, Mendelssohn (who later gave way to Wagner), Virginia Water by moonlight, and the Gothic cathedrals.”39