[1] She moved to singing Ballad opera and appeared in Love in a Village at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1779.

Martyr consoled herself with the prompter, James Wild, before establishing a lifelong partnership with the oboist William Thomas Parke.

[1] Until 1804 she would spend each winter at Covent Garden and in the summer she would tour outside London and appear at Vauxhall Garedens.

[3] Martyr died on 7 June 1807 whilst still being paid by the Covent Garden theatre.

[1] Martyr's will recognised her partner Parke as her executor and the farm she owned at Yalding was divided between her two sons after her daughter was given half of it.