11.  EDWARD PHILIP JOLIN and ANN HENNING SILVERSIDES

the coastguard and his large family at Herne Bay in Kent

 

This family have not yet been linked to the main Jolin family tree, but are important because, unusually for that time, all but one of their 14 children grew to adulthood.

 

According to Census Returns and the registration of his death, Edward Philip was most likely to have been born in 1846. His place of birth is said by descendents to have been Jersey, and this was also stated on the Census Returns. However, there seems to be no record of the birth or baptism of an Edward Jolin on Jersey around that time. The only Edward Jolin found born around that time in Britain as a whole was an Edward Jolin born in Dorset in 1846, the son of Maria Jolin, the widow of James Jolin, dyer, of Poole - Other Jolin branches.htm. I have found no baptism or registration entry for his birth, but he appears in the 1851 Census Return aged 5, birthplace Blandford in Dorset.

This Edward was an orphan by this time and he and his sister Maria Jane were living with their half-sister Louisa Newman in Poole.

 

Edward Philip was married on 26 April 1874 at Holy Trinity Church in Portsea, Hampshire, to Ann Henning Silversides. Ann had been born in 1854, the daughter of George Edward Silversides, a joiner, and Mary Wareham-Livall. On the marriage certificate Edward recorded his father's name and occupation as being Edward Jolin, dyer. I have found no other Edward of either the son's or the father's generation recorded in Britain around those time periods.

 

At the time of his marriage Edward Philip was a seaman. His and Ann's first two children were born in Portsea, the next three in Eastry, near Dover:

 

1. MARIA CAROLINE -she was born in 1875. (She may have been named after Edward's mother -Maria Jolin who had died in Poole when he was two years old in 1848?) Maria Caroline did not marry and died in 1908 in Whitechapel, London, aged 33.

2. EDWARD GEORGE - born in 1877, he was married in 1900 in Herne Bay to Emily Jane Ansell. He and Emily had one son FRANK EDWARD who was born 6 September 1914 in Herne Bay and who worked as an electrical contractor. Frank married Violet Dora Font in 1939 and they had three children:

       PETER EDWARD,    ROBERT FRANK,    SALLY MARGUERITE

Emily Jane died 1 December 1948 in London, aged 70. Edward George died 5 February 1955 at Canterbury in Kent, aged 78.

3. WILLIAM ALFRED - born in 1878, he married in 1909 in Herne Bay, Anne Matthews. They had one daughter, ANNIE, who was born in 1914 and who married in 1936, Eric Sullivan. William died 2 June 1955, at Chatham, aged 76. His widow died three years later in 1958, aged 72.

4. RICHARD PHILIP - born in 1980, he married in 1915 in London, Elizabeth Rosina Vidler. He died in 1933 in Camberwell, London, aged 53.

5. ANNE EMILY - born in 1881, she married in 1808 in Herne Bay

 

Edward Philip and Ann then moved their growing family to Herne Bay, where Edward was a coastguard at Bishopstone. Edward and Ann continued to live in the area until their deaths. They had a further nine children in Herne Bay:

 

6. ELLEN ELIZA - born in 1883, married in Herne Bay to Harry Cutting.

7. ALICE JANE - born in 1885.

8. ELIZABETH CLARA - born in 1887, married in 1912 in Herne Bay to Charles Jordan.

9. JAMES HENRY- born in 1889, he married twice. His first marriage was in 1915 to Nellie Frances Steene. She died in 1936 in Dover, aged 47. Their son ALLAN HAROLD had been born in 1919 in Dover, and he married Elizabeth Dudley. James Henry remarried two years after his first wife's death, and married Alice Clarissa Vera Woolf)in Dover. She died in London in 1967, aged 70.

10. CHARLES - born in 1891,married Elizabeth Noakes in 1912 at Cranbrook. They had three daughters: CASSINA, PEGGY and BETTY. Charles died in Yeovil in 1931,aged 41.

11. MAY OLIVE - born in 1892, she married Percival Gorringe in 1917 in Dover.

12. ARTHUR FREDERICK- born in 1894, he married Emily Ridgeway in 1923 in Leicester. They had two sons:

       PHILIP ARTHUR - born in 1928, he married Brenda Grove in 1954, and died four years later. They had one daughter, Elizabeth.

       RICHARD ERIC - born in 1930, he married Frances Audrey Butcher, and had three children, all born in Leicester: SIMON ALASTAIR (born in 1964), RUTH     ANGELA (born in 1968), and HELEN ELIZABETH (born in 1972).

       Arthur died in 1963 in Leicester, aged 69.

13. WALTER ERNEST - born 13 February 1895, he was married in 1927 in Faversharn to Kathleen Dunk. They had two sons:

       KENNETH- born 17 March 1918, he died in 1987, aged 69.

       PETER ERNEST - born 24 April 1927, he died in 1979 in Blackpool, aged 52.

Walter died in 1979 in Canterbury, aged 84. His wife had died back in 1927, aged 34, after her younger son was born.

14. FLORENCE MABEL - the only one not to live to grow up, she was both born and buried during the summer of 1898 .

 

Edward Philip died in 1909 in Herne Bay, aged 63. died in 1916, aged 62.

His widow, Ann, died in 1916, aged 62.

 

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