Léon Lemartin [SEP] place of birth
Léon Lemartin
Théodore Clovis Edmond Lemartin, known as Léon Lemartin (20 October 1883 Dunes, Tarn-et-Garonne – 18 June 1911, Vincennes) was a pioneer aviator who set a world record on 3 February 1911 at Pau, France when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII "Aerobus". He then took eight, eleven and thirteen passengers aloft the following month.
The son of a blacksmith, in 1902 he became a graduate "Gadz'Art", an engineer of 'Arts and Crafts' of
of Tarn-et-Garonne in south west France. From the moment of his birth he was known as Léon, but his forenames (Théodore, Clovis, Edmond) honoured both his father and both of his grandfathers. When he graduated in 1902 and required authorisations to work he discovered a mistake on his birth certificate, that his family name of 'Le Martin' had been written 'Lemartin', but he decided that it was easier to adopt the 'new' spelling.
His father Edmond was a blacksmith