5. DANIEL JOLIN and JEANNE MOUTIER and the largest Jolin family on Jersey

 

Daniel Jolin was the seventh child of Jacques Jolin, jnr, and Anne Le Bailly - The second generation on Jersey.htm, and a grandson of Jacques, snr, the first Jolin recorded on Jersey - Jersey origins - 1730s and 1740s.htm. He was baptised on 5 August 1772 in St Helier, where married Jeanne Moutier on 5 March 1795. Jeanne had been baptised on 6 January 1775 also in St Helier, and was the daughter of Guillaume Moutier and Jeanne Hubert. Daniel worked as a carpenter. He and Jeanne had 18 children baptised in St Helier, but as with so many families at that time half of their children died in infancy. Their children were:

 

1. DANIEL - baptised 21 January 1796, he became a master brickmaker and owned a small brickworks - The Jolin brickworks on Jersey.htm

2. WILLIAM- baptised 15 March 1797, he was little more than a year old when he died. He was buried 1 April 1798.

3. GEORGE - baptised 14 March 1798, just over two weeks before his older brother died, George himself was buried in 1807 when only about nine years old'.

4. WILLIAM - baptised 14 May 1799, he was married on 21 November 1822 to Elizabeth Susanna Le Cronier who had been born in 1796, the daughter of Jean Le Cronier and Elizabeth Le Touze. They had four children:

1.WILLIAM - baptised in November 1823, buried a year later on 4 October 1824.

2.JANE ELIZABETH - baptised 16 April 1828. Jane was married on 22 January 1854 in St Saviours parish church to George Le Dain. Their descendents moved to the Middlesex area of England.

3. HARRIET/HENRIETTA - born in 1831, was unmarried and was living with her widowed mother at 35 Hill Street in St Helier at the time of the 1871 Census.

4. WILLIAM - baptised 5 December 1833, ten months after his father had died. He was a mariner and sometime between June 1863 and March 1866 he was married in St Saviour parish to Martha McCrum, who had been born in 1842 and was the daughter of James McCrum. In the 1891 St Helier Census Martha stated that she had been born in Canada. William and Martha had six children, all born in St Helier:

       MARTHA GRACE - born between 9 March 1867 and 8 May 1868.

       JAMES WILLIAM - born and died between 9 May 1869 and 22 July 1869.

       WILLIAM GEORGE PHILIP - born between 22 July 1869 and 5 October 1870.

       DANIEL JAMES ALFRED - born 20 August 1872 and baptised a month later on 15 September. He died in 1899, aged 26, in Hull, England. The following year a woman named Isabella Jolin (Daniel's widow?) had her marriage registered in the Sculcoates area of Hull.

       ROBERT HENRY - born 30 August 1875. In 1941 he was living at 11 Val Plaisant, St Helier, Jersey, and in his will dated 3 February 1947 he bequeathed £250 to the Jersey Mechanics Institute.

       LYDIA MAUD - born 29 October 1879.  By 1941 she had married Laurence George Rowe and was living at Wilton House, 18 New St Johns Road, St Helier, Jersey. She wrote a will dated 27 June 1933.

 

William, snr, worked as a carpenter like his father Daniel. At the time of the 1841 Census William and his family were living in Green Street in St Helier, a recently- built street on the then outskirts of St Helier. At the time of the 1861 Census they had moved to 10 Colombery Street in the centre of St Helier. His widow Elizabeth died around 1880/1 in St Helier.

 

5. CHARLES- baptised 2 August 1800, he was still alive at the time of the Military Census of 1806 but died later as a younger brother was named after him.

6. PHILIPPE - baptised 31 March 1802. He may be the Philip Jolin who worked as an apothecary surgeon in London - Philip Jolin the apothecary and his Bristol descendents.htm

7. JANE ELIZA - baptised in 1803, she married Jean Renouf of St John parish on 23 September 1829 in St Helier. They had two children, Francois and Jane.

8. JEAN - baptism date unknown, he died in infancy and was buried during 1804 in St Helier.

9. FRANCOIS GEORGE - baptised 21 September 1805, he was buried four years later during 1809 in St Helier.

10. JEAN/JOHN -he was baptised 22 February 1807

11. ELIZA - she was baptised 30 April 1808

12. GEORGE - baptised 16 May 1809, he died less than 18 months later and was buried 21 September 1810 in St Helier.

13. FRANCOIS - baptised at home on 12 September 1810, he married Maria Budge and moved his family to London's East End district sometime around 1856 - The 1850s move to London's East End.htm

14. GEORGE DANIEL - baptised 11 October 1811, he was Daniel and Jeanne's third son to bear the first name of George, but he had an even shorter life than his brothers and was buried on 6 November 1811, just a month after his baptism.

15. JULIE – baptised 11 April 1813, she married Jean Aubin (see later).

16. GEORGE- baptised 22 June 1814, he was Daniel and Jeanne's fourth son to be named George. This George did grow up and he married Nancy/Ann Rachel Le Cras who had been born in 1820 the daughter of John Le Cras. Between 1842 and 1848 George worked as a shoemaker, probably alongside his brother-in-law who was also a shoemaker and was also named John Le Cras. In 1851 at the time of the Census George was working as a ship's carpenter, a job possibly obtained for him by his father-in-law who was a ship wright. His brother-in-law was still a shoemaker but he also changed trades and later became a blacksmith.

George and Nancy had four children, all born in St Helier:

1. ANNE RACHEL - born in 1841, married around 1866/69 in St Saviours parish.

2. GEORGE JOHN - born 4 November 1842.

3. ELIZA ANN - born 10 January 1847, buried aged 6½ months on 28 July 1847.

4. ELIZA JANE - born 19 January 1848.

 

George and his father-in-law both died sometime between 1815 and 1861, and at the time of the 1861 Census his widow Nancy was living with her two daughters and brother at 10 Seal Street in St Helier. Nancy and her daughters, then aged 20

and 13, tried to bring in extra money by doing tailoring. Nancy died around 1880/1 in St Helier.

 

17. BETSY MARY- baptised on 26 May 1816, her godparents were her uncle, the ill-fated Philippe Jolin who was to be killed by his son in 13 years time, and his wife Elizabeth/Betsy Turner. Like her little cousin who was also named Betsy Mary, she only lived about four years and was buried 22 January 1820.

18. CHARLES JOHN - baptised 20 January 1818, he also only lived for two years and was buried on 22 January 1820.

 

Jeanne Moutier was buried on 20 February 1821 in St Helier, three years after the baptism of her youngest child. It is not known when Daniel died.

 

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