I would do a dump of the queries from the DB facade, using DB::getQueryLog() and check the queries being ran. To me it sounds like some bad relations in the database itself, the code looks looks good as far as I can see.

Good luck!

Results from querylog:

array:2 [▼
  0 => array:3 [▼
    "query" => "select * from `members`"
    "bindings" => []
    "time" => 0.36
  ]
  1 => array:3 [▼
    "query" => "select * from `titles` where `titles`.`id` in (?)"
    "bindings" => array:1 [▼
      0 => 1
    ]
    "time" => 0.32
  ]
]

The migrations:

	public function up()
	{
		Schema::create('titles', function(Blueprint $table)
		{
			$table->increments('id');
			$table->string('name');
		});
    }

	public function up()
	{
		Schema::create('members', function(Blueprint $table)
		{
			$table->increments('id');
			$table->integer('roll_no');
			$table->integer('title_id')->unsigned();
            $table->foreign('title_id')->references('id')->on('titles');
			$table->string('first_names');
			$table->string('last_name');
			$table->date('dob');
			$table->string('address1');
			$table->string('address2')->nullable();
			$table->string('suburb');
			$table->string('postcode');
			$table->string('phone_home')->nullable();
			$table->string('phone_work')->nullable();
			$table->string('phone_fax')->nullable();
			$table->string('phone_mobile')->nullable();
			$table->string('email')->nullable();
			$table->timestamps();
		});
	}

Nice work! That would do it! Thanks for the update.