3. PIERRE JOLIN and JEANNE MALZARD and the move to Southampton and Cornwall

 

Pierre was the sixth child of Jacques Jolin, snr, and Marie Arault. He was baptised in 1743 in St Helier and was married in 1767 in St Helier to Jeanne Malzard. At one time he was the captain of the 'Jersey Flower' , a Jersey-owned boat which traded regularly with Southampton. He shared the captaincy during the period 1756-63 with his brother-in-law, Abraham Chevalier, an experienced captain of several vessels who had married his older sister, Susanne. He and Jeanne had five children, all baptised in St Helier:

 

1. PIERRE - baptised 20 September 1767 (see below).

2. JACQUES - baptised in December 1769, he was married in St Saviours church on Jersey on 7 October 1795 to Mary Langdon of St Michael Parish, Southampton. They had two young children buried in St Helier, Maria Ann in 1800 and James in March 1802. James and his wife followed his brother Peter to live in Southampton where they lived in Craven Street. James was buried in Southampton on 3 August 1826, and his widow was buried the following year on 7 March 1827 after she had been living in the Poor House.

3. MARIE SUSANNE - baptised in September 1772, she died in infancy and was buried 13 November 1780 in St Helier.

4. JEAN - baptised 5 April 1775

5. JEANNE - baptised 8 February 1778.

(6. WILLIAM - born 1781 - sixth child of Pierre and Jeanne?)

 

When Pierre died (date unknown) his widow Jeanne/Jane Malzard moved to Southampton to be near her son Pierre, where she died a year after his marriage. She was buried 7 October 1798 in Holy Rood parish in Southampton. Pierre/Peter, the eldest son, was also a sailor. By 1783-4 and aged about 17 he was based in Southampton and captain of a Southampton- based vessel which traded along the coast. On 21 November 1797 Peter, now aged 25, married a Southampton widow also aged 25, Mary Morris of All Saints parish, at Millbrook, Southampton. They had one child, a son named Peter, who was baptised 17 July 1798 at All Saints parish in Southampton. By 1803 the family were living at French Street in Southampton and Peter had left the sea and was now working as a tide-waiter or customs officer, who would await the arrival of ships in Southampton (formerly coming in with the tide), and then board them to check the cargoes to prevent the evasion of custom house regulations. Peter continued to live in Southampton and was living at 13 James Street at the time of his death from pneumonia aged 78 on 21 January 1844. 

 

Peter and Mary's son Peter was a shoemaker. In 1803 Peter Jolin was the only Jolin listed in the Southampton Directory, but in the 1811 edition a William Jolin, shoemaker, of East Street also appears. It is very likely that William and Peter were related, perhaps William was a younger brother, and that Peter, jnr, was apprenticed to him to learn the shoemaking trade.

 

Peter, jnr, was married three times. His first marriage was on Christmas Eve 1819 in the St John the Baptist Church of the tiny village of Boldre in the New Forest, Hampshire, a few miles away from Southampton. His bride was Ursula Read, born in August 1796, the youngest child of Joseph Read and Sarah Jenvey. By the time of Ursula's marriage her father Joseph had died but her widowed mother was still living with the rest of the family in Boldre. Ursula came from a strongly non-conformist family and she continued to follow Weslyan ideas after her marriage. However, her sister Sarah, to whom Ursula always remained close and who was a witness at her wedding, had married a Roman Catholic, Augustini Tournefort, and lived nearby in Lymington where her daughter Augustine Julia Aimee had been baptised 22 December 1814 in the Roman Catholic Pylewell House.

 

Ursula and Peter Jolin had eight children, their first child, ROSALIND URSULA, had been born in Southampton in 1823. By 1830 they had moved to Alderbury, a village on the outskirts of Salisbury, where they had four children jointly baptised at St Edmunds, Church Street, Salisbury, (Weslyan , on 17 May 1830:

 

SARAH ANN - born 12 July 1824

EMALINE MARY - born 25 March 1826. She married a widower, William Hanks Levy, who had been baptised 13 March 1831 at Finsbury St Luke, Old Street, London, the son of George Levy and Mary Ann Hanks. William had been blind since boyhood and became the Director of the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind in London. He was author of a book "Blindness and the Blind".

CHARLOTTE SUSANNAH - born 11 February 1828. She was married in 1852 in Southampton to Henry Truckell, and had a son Alfred Edgar born about 1856.

ALFRED EDGAR - born 7 September 1829

 

In Alderbury Peter continued to work as a shoemaker. Within four years of the joint baptism in Salisbury the family had moved back to Southampton where they lived in James Street just down the road from Peter Jolin, snr. Three more children were born:

 

MARY - born around 1835. She was married in Portsea in 1867 to Walter Eveling and had four children.

FANNY - born in 1838, she was to move with her father to Cornwall when he had remarried and she herself married in Redruth in 1858.

GEORGE - born in 1839, he lived only 13 months and was buried on 26 May 1840 in St Mary Parish in Southampton.

 

Their mother Ursula outlived her baby son George by less than a month and was buried near him on 10 June 1840, aged 43. After Ursula's death the family split up. Rosalind, the eldest, set up home in Union Terrace as a dressmaker. Mary stayed with her for a time. Rosalind later moved to Bedford Terrace where she took in lodgers. She never married and died in 1861 aged 38.

 

The rest of the family spread out, their father Peter moving to St Helier on Jersey where on 19 May 1844 he married Eliza Winn. Eliza had been born around 1808/11 in St Peter Port in Guernsey, the daughter of Robert Winn. They were married little more than a year as Eliza's health declined and she was buried on 27 July 1845 in St Helier.

 

Peter continued to live in St Helier and within the following two years he had married again. His third wife was Ann Bradford. Ann had been baptised 24 June 1821 in Heavitree Parish, Exeter, Devon, the daughter of John and Ann Bradford. Her father John Bradford worked as a labourer for most of his life, but for a short time had been a soldier in the South Devon Militia. Peter and Ann soon had a daughter, also called ANN, and then moved from St Helier to Exeter where Ann's family lived. Ann had a brother named George Bradford who lived in Oakfield Street in Exeter and who worked as a shoemaker, perhaps he was able to find work for Peter who was also a shoemaker. Peter and Ann then had a son named PETER who was born around 1849 in Exeter. They then moved to Penzance in Cornwall with young Ann and Peter, and Peter's daughter Fanny from his first marriage, where Peter continued to work as a shoemaker and where another son, WILLIAM HENRY was born 27 March 1851 at their home in North Street. But in that same year their daughter Ann died and they moved to Camborne where three more children were born:

 

SAMUAL - born around 1853, he was married in 1876 locally.

FRANCIS EDMUND - born 25 May 1855 (see below)

ANGELINA - born in 1858, she died only three years later.

 

In 1859, just a year after the birth of his youngest child, Angelina, Peter, snr, died in Camborne leaving his family very badly off; at aged 13 his son Peter worked as ~ mine labourer and William aged 10 was an errand boy. Their mother Ann had a very hard life, only two years after the death of her husband her little daughter Angelina died, and as well as looking after her family she worked as a cleaner in an attempt to bring in some more money. Despite all this she must have been of strong stock as she lived to a ripe old age. She died in 1907 in Truro when she was well into her eighties.

 

Francis Edmund was Peter and Ann's fourth child. He worked as a carpenter and married Eliza Annie Sanders on 1 April 1880 in Truro. They had five children, all born in Truro:

 

1. FRANCIS JOHN - born 23 March 1881, he was married in 1903 in Truro. He died there in 1956. He had no children.

2. ELIZA MAUD MARY - born 7 may 1883, she never married and died in 1919 at Bodmin aged 35.

3. ALFRED CHARLES - born 16 June 1886 (see below).

4. URSULA ANETTA - born 26 April 1888, she was

married to James H. Williams in 1927 at Truro.

5. GLYDIS PEARL - born 5 October 1891, like her

sister she also didn't marry and died in 1935 in Truro aged 45.

 

Alfred Charles was the middle one of Francis Edmund's children and worked as a tailor. He married Effie Ellen Teague On 23 December 1916 in Truro. He died in June 1960 aged 74 and his wife three years later on New Year's Eve 1963, aged 75, both in Truro. They had four children, all born in Castle Street, Truro:

 

1. EDITH MOLLY - born 21 April 1919, married in 1940 in Truro to Reuben Repper.

2. PHYLLIS MAUD - born 4 May 1921, married in 1949 in Truro to Bertie Frisk.

3. FRANCIS JOHN NOEL - born 27 December 1924, married in 1950 in Truro to Marian Tretheway. They had two daughters, TERESA and IRIS.

4. URSULA EFFIE JANE - born 21 July 1926, married in 1949 to George Farmer.

 

And so, after a direct descent of at least eight generations from Jacques Jolin on Jersey, this particular Jolin branch may have ended.

 

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