12. PHILIP JOLIN – the apothecary and his descendents in the Bristol area
This Jolin family has not yet been attached to the main Jolin tree.
Philip Jolin was unusual in that he was an apothecary/surgeon, a professional man as opposed to the sailors and tradesmen that the other early Jolins were; the shoemakers and carpenters.
According to his entry in the entry books of the Court of Examiners of the qualifications of candidates of the Society of Apothecaries (now kept at the Guildhall Library in London), Philip Jolin had been an apprentice to Charles Goodwin of London, apothecary, for five years from 26 July 1830 to 26 July 1835. He failed to attend for examination on 6 February 1845, but he did attend a week later and was approved on 13 February. His age at that time was 43.
An apothecary was originally the humble tradesman of the medical profession and specialised in making up medicines. He had to serve a five-year apprenticeship. He also advised on treatments to people who could not afford to consult a physician. Most surgeons had learnt by watching leading surgeons at work and by studying anatomy in a hospital mortuary. Some surgeons were too poor for this training and had begun by helping the injured whilst in the army. Many surgeons went on to train as apothecaries so that they could prescribe medicines as well as carry out operations. This could explain why Philip Jolin completed his apprenticeship at such a late age. These apothecary/surgeons were the forerunners of the general practitioners we know today.
Philip first set up in business on his own as a surgeon at 17 St John's Square, Clerkenwell, and advertised his business in the 1845 edition of the London Post Office Directory. Three years later he had moved to 22 Coppice Row, Clerkenwell, where he lived until his death.
In the 1851 and 1861 Census Returns he gave his birthplace as being St Helier on Jersey, and his age as 49 and 59 respectively. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to locate his baptism record; the only Philip/Philippe Jolin baptised in 1802 is fully accounted for in another branch of the family. There is the possibility that he could have been the Philippe baptised in 1800, the son of Pierre Jolin and Marguerite Susanne Le Sueur, or Philippe baptised in 1796, the son of Jean Jolin and Marie Le Cordier. An intriguing complication is the entry in the 1841 Census Return for St Helier of a Jacques Jolin, physician, aged
75, living by himself in Halkett Place. This Jacques seems likely to be the same one as the one baptised in 1764, who was the uncle of both Philippes mentioned above.
There seems to be no marriage record for Philip Jolin. He lived at 22 Coppice Row with his housekeeper, Harriet Tomlin, until his death in 1862. He did, however, have a son who was born in 1844 and whom he named PHILLIP after himself. Philip did not register the birth of his son, presumably to hide his illegitimacy, neither was the boy recorded as living with his father at the time of the 1851 and 1861 Censuses. However, the following year in 1862 when he died Philip, in his will, left all of his property and effects to his housekeeper, Harriet Tomlin, spinster, and to his natural son, Philip Jolin, who he stated was now living with him, for their joint and mutual benefit. Harriet Tomlin would seem to have been Philip's mother. After his father's death, Philip moved with his mother Harriet to Bristol, where Harriet (Jolin) died in 1887. Philip continued to live in Bristol with his wife, Annie Jane where they had seven children:
1. FLORENCE HARRIET - born in 1883, unmarried, died in 1968 in Weymouth aged 85.
2. PHILIP SYDNEY - born in 1884, he moved to Durham where he was married at Houghton to Emily Mary Lishman in 1913. they had two sons:
CHARLES PHILIP - born in August 1916, he was married in 1948 in Croydon to Marjorie Potts. They had three daughters: JENNIFER SUZANNE (born in 1948), DIANA MARY (born in 1952), and SARA (born in 1954). Charles died in September 1995.
WILLIAM ARTHUR LISHMAN - he married Mildred Gadsdon in 1948 in Leeds and had one daughter, MARGARET ELIZABETH.
3. ANNIE GERTRUDE - born in 1885,also unmarried, died in 1975 aged 90.
4. ETHEL MAUD - born in 1890, she was married in Bristol in 1930 to Wilfred Triggol. She was the only one of the five sisters to marry. She died in 1983 at Blagdon, near Bristol
5. CHARLES HENRY - born in.1894, he was married in 1935 in Fulham, London, to Mabel Parker Walters/Brewis. When he retired he went to live on Alderney in the Channel Islands, where he died in a nursing home on Guernsey in 1986.
6. ELSIE MAY - born in 1895, unmarried and died in 1958 in Bristol aged 63.
7. DOROTHY EDITH - born in 1897, also unmarried, died in 1984 in Weymouth aged 87.
At the time that Philip wrote his will in 1915 he and his wife were living at 6 Leopold Road in the Bishopston area of Bristol, and he had worked as an electrical engineer. Philip died in 1929 in Bristol aged 85. His widow, Annie Jane, died 19 years later in 1948 in Bromley, aged 92.