1. JACQUES JOLIN and MARIE ARAULT/ARAUX

- and the beginnings of the Jolin family on Jersey during the 1730's and 1740's

 

The earliest record of a Jolin event in surviving records on Jersey is the baptism of Marie Magdeleine, daughter of Jacques Jolin and his wife Marie Arault, on 24 September 1732 in St Helier. Jacques and Marie had a further eight children, all of whom were also baptised in St Helier. Marie Magdeleine died three years later and was buried on the 10 July 1735. A second daughter, Susanne, had been baptised a year earlier on 22 September 1734. Susanne grew up to marry a ship's captain named Abraham Chevalier, but had only a short married life as she was only just in her 30's when she died. She was buried in St Helier on 3 April 1765. Jacques and Marie's third child was another daughter, Jeanne, and she was baptised 8 May 1737.

 

Tragedy struck again with their eldest son, Jacques, who was buried on 6 September 1738, sixteen months after his youngest sister's baptism. Two years later their fifth child, another Jacques, was baptised on 19 November 1740. He was to be my 4 x great-grandfather and was to have a large family - The second generation on Jersey.htm.  After Jacques came another son, Pierre, baptised in 1743. Pierre's branch of the family was 'to move soon to Southampton and Cornwall - The Southampton and Cornwall connections.htmThe seventh child was a daughter Marie, baptised 22 October 1746. Like her elder sister Susanne, Marie also married a ship's captain when she married Philippe Neel on 18 January 1777 in St Helier. She died in her 60's and was buried in St Helier on 5 February 1810.

 

Three years after Marie's baptism, the eighth child, a son named Jean, was buried on 9 June 1749 in St Helier. Eighteen months later the last child, a daughter Anne was baptised on 5 December 1750. She was married on 4 July 1776 to Philippe Le Vavasseur dit Durell.

 

Marie Araux or Arault (both spellings appear in the parish registers) was buried in St Helier on 23 March 1776. Her husband Jacques Jolin outlived her by eight years and was buried 18 April 1784. No record of their baptisms or marriage appear in the earlier Jersey parish registers. It seems probable that they were Huguenot refugees who had been born and married in France. When their son Jacques married in 1762, his wife Anne Le Bailly was recorded in the marriage register as being a refugee.

 

Between the late 17005 and 18705 several Jolin families were living on Jersey, mainly in St Helier, and all were descended from Jacques Jolin and Marie Arault. Today however the surname appears to have died out completely in the Channel Islands. The name appears in England, albeit very rarely, and of these instances nearly all can be traced back to Jacques Jolin and Marie Arault.

 

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