6. DANIEL JOLIN and his brickfield and the Aubin family

 

Baptised on 29 January 1796, Daniel Jolin was the eldest child of Daniel Jolin and Jeanne Moutier, and a great-grandson of Jacques Jolin and Marie Arault Jersey origins - 1730s and 1740s.htm He was a master- brickmaker and owned a small brickworks at Longueville in St Saviour parish. Although his brickworks has long since disappeared the site where it stood is marked today by the road name Brickfield Lane. Today the site of the brickfield is mainly occupied by Smith's Soft Drinks factory, which was established in 1894, the remainder of the site being occupied by a small row of houses and a couple of small business units.

 

Daniel did not marry and died on 5 October 1875 aged 80, having outlived most of his brothers and sisters and many of his nieces and nephews. A very brief obituary appeared in the Jersey Times and British Press local newspaper the day after his death, which simply stated that he had died "at his residence" .On his death his money and possessions were divided up in accordance with two wills he had made which left his immoveable property to his widowed sister Julie, then aged 63 and the only one of his siblings still alive on Jersey. The residue of his money and moveable property after various bequests had been made was to be shared equally between Julie and her daughter Julia Mary Aubin. This will included many bequests to other family members, including £900 to his brother Francis, my great-great-grandfather, who by that time had been living in London for nearly twenty years. Lesser amounts were left to several nieces and nephews, the children of Daniel's deceased brothers and sister, William, George and Jane Renouf. Daniel also left £5 to be distributed amongst the needy poor of the parish of St Saviour. The executors were two friends, Peter George Priaulex and Francis Charles Gruchy.

 

Daniel's sister Julie was their parents fifteenth child and was baptised on 11 April 1813. On 17 November 1833 in St Saviour parish she married a neighbouring widower, Jean Aubin, who was 29 years older than her. His first wife had died 20 years earlier in 1813 just six weeks after the baptism of their second child.

Both of their children are believed to have died in infancy.

 

Julie and Jean Aubin had five children, but only the eldest, JULIE MARIE AUBIN, baptised 8 November 1835, lived to reach full adulthood. Jean Aubin died in 1866 aged 82 and Julie Marie inherited the family home, Aubin House, Georgetown, from her father. Jean Aubin's family had also owned a brickworks and this was situated about half a mile away from his brother-in-law Daniel Jolin's brickworks. Julie herself died on 26 June 1895 at Aubin House, aged 82, survived only by one grandchild. This grandchild, THOMAS DANIEL JOLIN LE SUEUR, was the sole beneficiary under Julie's will, and he later emigrated to Australia.

Julie's daughter, JULIE MARIE, had married a farmer, Thomas Le Sueur, on 25 April 1859. She died in 1878 aged 43. They had three children. The eldest, JULIA SOPHIA VALENTINE LE SUEUR, was awarded a bronze medal at the 1871 Exhibition for a tapestry she had made. (In 1986 this tapestry was being kept in the museum of the Society Jersiaise in St Helier.) She married John De Gruchy, jnr, in 1882. Julie Marie's youngest child was Thomas (above).

 

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