2. JACQUES JOLIN and ANNE LE BAILLY and the growth of the Jolin family on Jersey

 

Baptised on 19 November 1740 in St Helier, Jacques was the fifth child of Jacques Jolin and Marie Arault. On 27 August 1762 in St Helier he married Anne Le Bailly. Anne was noted in the marriage register as being a 'refugierre, , and her name appears in the 'List of French Protestants that have Left France for their Religion and are now Residing in the Island of Jersey, April ye 30th 1750'. This document forms part of the Colonial Office records of Nova Scotia in Canada and contains the names of some 184 people who were being considered as potential British settlers in Nova Scotia, although as it turns out they never actually emigrated to Nova Scotia after all. Anne Le Bailly's age is given as 15 and she is listed with a group of people whose occupations are given as weavers, including a John Le Bailly aged 25 (possibly her brother?. Her parents are not listed.

 

Jacques and Anne had a large family of six sons and five daughters, all of whom were baptised in St Helier and all except one grew up to marry in St Helier:

 

1. ANNE - baptised 3 August 1763, she was married on 30 November 1786 to Jean Ramon, jnr. Anne died in her eighties around 1849/50 in St Helier.

2. JACQUES - baptised 31 August 1764, he was married in 1784 to Marie Le Cronier. Like his parents Jacques also had eleven children (five sons and six daughters), however, six of them are known to have died in infancy, four boys and two girls. The only surviving son, Philippe, who was baptised 30 November 1787, does not appear to have married, and nothing more is known about his four surviving sisters, Marie, Elizabeth, Susanne and Marguerite. Jacques' wife Marie Le Cronier died around 1847/8 in St Helier.

3. JEAN - baptised 3 December 1765, he was married in 1788 to Marie Le Cordier. They had three children: JEAN, baptised in October 1791, PHILIPPE baptised 11 November 1795, and MARIE baptised 9 January 1799. Nothing else is known about Jean and Philippe, but their sister Marie was married on New Years Day in

1821 to Philip Pinel, she died around 1878/9 in St Helier. Jean Jolin, snr, died on 11 May 1799 whilst serving on HMS 'Bravo'. His widow, Marie, and her children then lived with her husband's brother and his wife, Jacques Jolin and Marie Le Cronier.

 

4. PIERRE - baptised 30 September 1767, he was married 28 July 1789 in St Saviours church to Marguerite Susanne Le Sueur, the daughter of Philippe Le Sueur and Anne Romeril. They had seven children, all baptised in St Helier:

1. SUSANNE - baptised 2 September 1789 she didn't marry and was buried in St Helier 25 November 1817.

2. AARON/PIERRE AARON - baptised 3 July 1792, he was married 27 October 1814 to Elizabeth Slous/Elisabeth Marie Selous in St Lawrence, Jersey. They had two children: ELIZABETH, baptised 26 February 1815 and, three years later, JEAN baptised 18 February 1818. Aaron worked as a shoemaker.  Aaron and Elizabeth moved to Saint-Servan in France where a daughter Marie Jacquemine was born on 18 February 1824. However, Aaron had divorced his wife Elisabeth on 20 May 1823, the same day their son Jean died in Saint-Malo in France.  Elisabeth continued to live in Saint-Servan and died there in 1860 aged 75.  Her elder daughter Elisabeth lived to age 84 and died on 23 January 1900 but did not have any children.  The younger daughter Marie Jacquemine died on 19 February 1912 in Saint-Malo aged 87. Marie had four children and has descendents still living in France today.

Following his divorce Aaron married Ann Langreich(in April 1824 in Saint-Malo?) and returned to Jersey where Aaron worked as a shoemaker in St Helier. Aaron and Ann then had a large family, all born in St Helier:

       Anne – born 1831

       Elizabeth – born 1832, buried 17 November 1837 aged 5, St Helier.

       Aaron – born 1835, buried 16 January 1839, aged 4, St Helier.

       William – born 1837. Originally a seaman, after being invalided out he worked as the Keeper of St Paul’s Navy School in St Helier.  He married Sarah Cox, born 1839 in Bishopsbourne, Kent, daughter of James Cox, a publican, on 30 January 1860, at Holy Trinity Parish Church, Southampton.  They had no children.

       John – born 1940, worked as a painter.  Married 26 March 1865 to Elizabeth Pirouet (born 1828, spinster aged 37 on marriage, daughter of John Pirouet/Peronnet, mason).

       Alfred – born 2 December 1843, buried aged 1 on 1 January 1845, St Helier.

       Eliza – born 19 June 1845, married 29 January 1965 to Joseph Edward Wolfreys (widower, painter, 24, son of Charles, chairmaker), in St Saviour, Jersey.  Eliza and Joseph emigrated to New Zealand in 1874.  They had 8 children, 4 born in St Helier, then 4 more born in Christchurch, New Zealand.  Eliza died in Christchurch aged 86 on 8 February 1931.

       James Henry – born 26 April 1849 and baptised 6 May 1849.  He died in infancy (1850/1)

       Louise – born 1853.

Aaron was working as a shoemaker in St Helier at the time of the Censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1861 but then moved to Saint-Servan in France?

3. ANNE - baptised in November 1793 but died the following year.

4. ANNE - baptised in 1795, she was married 2 October 1825 to Francois Le Sueur. Her married life was to last little more than two years and she was buried 22 November 1827.

5. PHILIPPE - the first Jersey Jolin of the new century, was baptised 20 June 1800. He worked as a shoemaker and moved with his wife and family to London. The shoemakers who moved to London and Bolton.htm. 

6. DANIEL - he was baptised 11 November 1803.

7. MARIE- baptised 29 November 1808, she was married 28 November 1829 to Philip George Horman.

 

5. MARIE - baptised 30 December 1768 she was married 28 November 1789 to William Le Feuvre. Their son Edward, born in 1801, was to be called as a prosecution witness in 1829 at the murder trial of his first cousin Philippe George Jolin. Marie died around 1844/5 in St Helier.

6. ESTHER - baptised 28 November 1770, she was married 9 July 1803 to Jean Valpy.

7. DANIEL - baptised 5 August 1772, he married and had the largest Jolin family on Jersey; most of the Jolins alive today in England are his descendents The largest Jersey family - early 1800s.htm.

8. GEORGE and

9. SUSANNE - baptised at home 8 June 1774 and at church two days later, these are the only known recorded twins in the Jolin family. George lived only for about six years and was buried 26 August 1780, but his twin sister Susanne was married 21 May 1796 to Jean Le Sueur. Susanne died aged about 80 around 1853/4 in St Helier.

10. JEANNE- she was baptised 9 June 1776.  Jeanne left a will dated 08 April 1848 and proved on 15 May 1852.  Her niece Susanne Esther Le Sueur was the executor, and Susanne's daughter Susannah Eliza Le Cras was the main beneficiary. Jeanne also left a small sum to her brother Daniel and 3 shillings for the poor of St Helier.

11. PHILIPPE - baptised 18 March 1778, he was killed by his son in 1829. This resulted in his son's trial for patricide and execution as the last person to be publicly hung on Jersey - The 1829 trial and execution for murder.htm .

 

Jacques Jolin was buried in September 1784 in St Helier, just five months after his father, Jacques Jolin, snr, had died. His widow Anne Le Bailly lived to a ripe old age, surviving her husband by 39 years, and she was buried 25 April 1823 when in her late 80's.

 

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