Martha was the daughter of John Shaw Sale, Gentleman, of Rugby, and Marianne.
In 1858 Martha married Edmund Groves in Rugby.
By 1861, they were living in Southfield Villa, in Middlesborough, with a Cook and a Domestic Servant. Edmund was described as a Member of the Cochrane Co., Ironfounder. Cochrane and Co were of North Ormesby Ironworks, Cargo Fleet, Middlesbrough and Woodside Works, Dudley, and supplied most of the ironwork for the 1851 Great Exhibition building. By 1866 it was Cochrane, Grove and Co.. Edmund left the Company in 1871, but he continued as a Partner, in Middlesborough. By 1875 the Partnership was dissolved.
In 1871 Edmund and Martha were living in Glenside Villa, Saltburn, with two Domestic Servants.
They were still in Saltburn in 1881, with Martha's sister Mary, plus a Cook, a Housemaid and a Parlour Maid.
Saltburn's Victorian pier was the first iron pier to be built on the North East Coast, is the most northerly surviving British Pier and the only remaining pleasure pier on the North East coast. Built in an exposed position and facing due north into the cruel and unforgiving North Sea, the history of Saltburn Pier tells a tale of survival against the elements. The pier was commissioned by the Saltburn Pier Company in 1867, designed by Mr John Anderson and completed two years later, opening in May 1869.
Edmund Grove was part of the Saltburn Pier Company. Ironwork was supplied by Cochrane, Grove and Co.
The Cargo boat, the Sixty-Six, described as a Steam Screw, launched in 1871, was owned by Cochrane, Grove and Co,.By 1897 Edmund Grove was the sole owner. The ship was sunk by a German submarine off Scarborough in 1918.
In Kelly's 1888 Directory of Worthing, Edmund Grove, Esq. was listed at Seabank, Manor Road next door to the former Heene Rectory, so a neighbour of the Rev Beckles.. He was there until 1891, but must have moved away after that.
Martha died in 1888, not long after they moved to Heene..