13. SMALLER, UNLINKED (at present) JOLIN FAMILIES
WILLIAM JOLIN and ELIZABETH HICKMAN – of Southampton
William Jolin died in Southampton in 1848 aged 67. This means he was born sometime around 1781, but I have been unable to find a baptism record for a William Jolin anywhere near that year. The fact that he lived in Southampton for all his adult life and was a shoemaker by trade suggests a link with Peter Jolin, another Southampton shoemaker, whose father Pierre Jolin - The Southampton and Cornwall connections.htmwas born on Jersey in 1767,a grandson of Jacques Jolin and Marie Arault - Jersey origins - 1730s and 1740s.htm. Was William an uncle of Peter, ie, a brother of Pierre/Peter Jolin baptised 1767?
William married Elizabeth Hickman on 28 May 1804 in St Mary Parish, Southampton, where they had five children baptised:
1. JANE - baptised 29 July 1804, she was buried on 12 November 1823, 'aged 19.
2. MARIA - baptised 15 February 1807, but buried three weeks later on 5 March.
3. ELIZABETH HICKMAN - baptised 5 June 1808.
4. JAMES - baptised 1 September 1811. He may be the same James as the one who lived and worked as a dyer in Poole (see below). At this time William and his family were living in East Street in Southampton, and William was advertising his services as a shoemaker in the local directory, the Southampton Register.
5. SARAH- baptised 30 October 1814, she was buried the following year on 1 February 1815, aged 16 months. The family were then living in Orchard Lane.
William and Elizabeth both died within a few months of each other during 1848 when they were living in Cumberland Street in Southampton. Elizabeth died in the spring and William was buried on 24 September 1848, aged 67 years.
JAMES and MARIA JOLIN -the dyers of Poole
At the time of the 1841 Census JAMES JOLIN was living in Market Street, Poole, with his wife, Maria, daughters ELIZABETH, aged 4, and JANE, aged 5 months, and Louisa and William Billett, aged 15 and 10. James' occupation was a dyer and he stated that he had not been born in Dorset but his wife and daughters had been. James' age was rounded down to 30 meaning that he had been born between 1806 and 1811. The only James Jolin I have found who was born around then was the James baptised 1 September 1811 in Southampton, the son of William and Elizabeth Jolin (see above). James died in 1842, the year following the Census, leaving Maria with a very young family to support.
I have been unable to find a marriage record for James and Maria, however, the parish registers contain Maria's baptism on 16 March 1802 at Blandford Forum, near Poole, the daughter of John and Elenor Newman. On 3 November 1824 at Blandford Forum Maria's illegitimate daughter, Louisa Newman, was baptised.
Three years later on 10 May 1827 in St James' Parish, Poole, Maria, who was then living in Poole, married Edward Billett, a local sailor. Four years later their only child, a son, William, was baptised there on 19 April 1831. Sometime over the next ten years Maria's husband died and she married James Jolin. I have found no record of Edward's death (being a sailor, he may have died at sea or abroad) or of Maria's remarriage.
James and Maria had two daughters. I have not found a record of any kind for the eldest, Elizabeth, who was born around 1837, but the younger daughter, Maria Jane, was baptised on 23 June 1841 in Poole, where James worked as a dyer helped by his step-children, Louisa and William, now aged 15 and 10.
The following year James died and was buried just before Christmas on 21 December 1842 in Poole. He was aged just 33 and this left Maria to carry on the work as a dyer to support the family. In the 1846/47 Post Office Directory for Dorsetshire she advertised her services as a dyer whilst living at New Street. Around that time another son, EDWARD JOLIN, was born, three years after her husband's death. Maria does not appear to have registered or baptised him, but he appears later in the 1851 Census Return - Edward the coastguard in Kent.htm
Maria herself died in 1848, two years after the birth of her son, Edward. She was buried on 25 January 1848 in Poole, aged 43. Maria's eldest daughter, Louisa Newman, was left to look after the family. By the time of the 1851 Census, Louisa was living at 130 Prosperous Street in Poole with her half-sister (Maria) Jane and half- brother Edward. She also had an illegitimate baby of her own who had been born the previous year and whom she had named Maria after her mother. Her half- brother William Billett and half-sister Elizabeth Jolin were no longer living with her, they were now of an age to be working elsewhere.
I do not know what became of Elizabeth Jolin, but Maria Jane Jolin married in Bristol in 1867. (The birth of a Louisa Jolin was registered the year before in 1866 in the Beaminster district of Dorset, could this have been an illegitimate daughter of Maria Jane born before her marriage in Bristol? There were no other Jolin families living in Dorset around this time. Louisa could have been named after Maria's half-sister Louisa Newman who had brought her up?)
CHARLES FELIX JOLIN and EMMA KING of Shoreditch and Plymouth
Charles Felix Jolin married Emma King on 12 October 1856 in Shoreditch, London. In London they had three children:
1. ELIZABETH EMMA - born in 1857, Finsbury.
2. WILLIAM FELIX - born in 1859 in Shoreditch, he died the following year.
3. WILLIAM JOHN - born in 1860 in Finsbury the same year his brother died.
A year later, in 1861, Charles and Emma moved to Plymouth where they lived at 20 Jubilee Street. A second daughter, MARIA, was baptised there at the Charles the Martyr church on 3 May 1861, having been born three months earlier on 16 February. Charles stated his occupation as being a 'Light Keeper, Trinity Service'.
But within a few weeks of their baby daughter Maria's baptism, Emma had died. Charles himself died three years later in Plymouth. It is not known what became of the three orphaned children, Elizabeth, William and Maria.
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