by D J Wiseman
Lydia’s Report for Dorothy
For Dorothy Joslin.
This is the information regarding your family history. These things can be quite difficult to follow if you are not familiar with the terminology that is often used and it is easy to get lost in the different generations, so I have set this out in what I hope are easy to follow sections which correspond to a particular family. The first one covers ‘Papa’ and ‘Mama’s’ family, which are your great grandparents and their children, including your grandfather Joseph.
All the birth, marriage and death certificates are in a section at the back, plus copies of a few other records like the census sheets. The census information has been included in the report where it concerns your own ancestors but I have not completed all the details for everyone else. The census details are noted with the year and the word ‘cen’ after it, so where you see ‘1881cen’ that means the 1881 census and so on. Also at the back is a diagram showing all the family that have been found. It is too big to fit on a single sheet so I have taped them together so that you can fold it out to have a view of them all.
You will see that there are a few other notes included about some of the people mentioned, and these are where I have drawn on some other sources, or where there are still some questions unanswered. You will be able to work out who most of the people are in the albums, but just as a marker for you I have noted a few of the photographs against the people in the report, especially the one which started the whole process, the 1911 Longlands family. I thought it was the best one to go on the front of this so I hope you like it.
Albert Joslin (your great grandfather) and his family
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Birth Date: 17 Mar 1851
Birth Place: Bocking End
Death Date: 29 May 1923
Death Place: Bocking End
Occupation: Wine Trader/Dealer
This is ‘Papa’ in the 1911 Longlands photo, your great grandfather. The old house still stands, but has been much changed and added to. It is currently a care home for the elderly.
1871cen Chelmsford, age 20, where he lives with his uncle Joseph. 1881cen Bocking end age 30 with his wife Pitternelle(23) and son Albert (2). 1891cen Bocking End, age 38, a wine dealer, with wife Pitternel (33) born London, son Albert(12) born Coggeshall, daughter Isabella(9), son Joseph(7) both born Bocking. Also resident Albert’s mother Loveday Joslin (64) and Adelle Speen, domestic servant.
1901cen Bocking End, age 48, a wine and spirit merchant, with wife Pitternel(43), son Joseph(17) and daughters Isabella(19), Alice(8) and Aletha(8). Also resident Alice Speen 16 yo domestic servant. Note that son Albert has left home.
Spouse: Pitternell White
Birth Date: Mar 1858
Birth Place: Holborn, London
Death Date: 4 Jun 1931
Death Place: Bocking
This is ‘Mama’ in the 1911 Longlands Photo, your great grandmother. In various records she is shown as Pitternel, Pitternell and Pitternelle.
Marriage Date: 2 May 1878
Marriage Place: Coggeshall
Other wife: Isabella Dix
Children:
1 Albert Joslin
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Birth Date: 3 Mar 1879
Birth Place: Coggeshall
Death Date: 3 Jan 1961
Death Place: Bocking
Occupation: Ag. Dealer
1901cen Lodging in Colchester, unmarried age 22, an agricultural dealer. (Note - recorded as Jocelyn).
This is the Albert, your great uncle, sitting next to ‘Mama’ in the Longlands 1911 photo.
Spouse: Beatrice Pelham
Birth Date: 1882
Birth Place: Saffron Walden
Death Date: 9 Jun 1963
Death Place: Braintree
Beatrice is seated on the left of the middle row of figures in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Marriage Date: 3 Feb 1902
Marriage Place: Bocking, Essex
Children: Beatrice Pelham
Albert Pelham
Harriet Pelham
2 Isabella Joslin
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Birth Date: 14 Sep 1881
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 9 Nov 1948
Death Place: Colchester
Isabella, your great aunt, is seated next to her father in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Spouse: Francis Marshall
Birth Date: 1876
Birth Place: Coggeshall
Death Date: 1916
Death Place: France
Occupation: 1902-4 Insurance Agent (from children’s birth certificates)
Marriage Date: 1901
Marriage Place: Bocking
Children: Phoebe ‘Bee’ Isabella
Albert William Francis
3 Joseph Joslin
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Birth Date: 2 Mar 1883
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 9 May 1915
Death Place: Near Ypres, France
Your grandfather Joseph died without having ever seen his daughter Fanny (your mother), possibly without even knowing that he was a father. In the 1911 Longlands photograph he is seated and on the far right of the row.
Spouse: Fanny Holland
Birth Date: 1886
Birth Place: Colchester
Death Date: 9 Oct 1922
Death Place: Bocking
Marriage Date: 15 Aug 1914
Marriage Place: Colchester
Children: Fanny
4 Alice Joslin
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Birth Date: 2 Sep 1892
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 31 Oct 1914
Death Place: At sea off Whitby
Burial Place: Never recovered
Occupation: Volunteer nurse
Recorded as killed when the hospital ship Rohilla was wrecked 1914. She was serving as a nurse. In the 1911 Longlands photograph she is standing next to her sister Alethia, third from the left in the back row.
5 Alethia Joslin
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Birth Date: 2 Sep 1892
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 10 Jul 1970
Death Place: Braintree
Alethia is also variously recorded as Aletha and Alethea.
Alethia is the original elusive ‘self’ of the 1911 Longlands photograph. She is standing second from the left, next to a visitor, Mr Melville. She and Alice are your great aunts.
Spouse: James Dix Myers
Birth Date: 4 Jul 1892
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 2 May 1968
Death Place: Braintree
Spouse Father: Henry Myers (1856-1928)
Spouse Mother: Martha Dix (1858-1929)
James is standing in the back row, second from the right next to his brother Henry in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
According to the postcard sent by their son Henry from training camp in October 1942, James and Alethia were living at 27 Grenville Road, Braintree, Essex.
Marriage Date: 8 Mar 1922
Marriage Place: Chelmsford
Children: Henry Dix
Verity Dix
Albert Joslin (your great uncle) and his family
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Birth Date: 3 Mar 1879
Birth Place: Coggeshall
Death Date: 3 Jan 1961
Death Place: Bocking
Occupation: Ag. Dealer
Notes: 1901cen Lodging in Colchester, unmarried age 22, an agricultural dealer. (Note - recorded as Jocelyn).
This is the Albert sitting to the right of ‘Mama’ as you look at the Longlands 1911 photo.
Spouse: Beatrice Pelham
Birth Date: 1882
Birth Place: Saffron Walden
Death Date: 9 Jun 1963
Death Place: Braintree
Beatrice is seated on the left of the middle row of figures in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Marriage Date: 3 Feb 1902
Marriage Place: Bocking, Essex
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Children:
1 Beatrice Pelham Joslin
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Birth Date: 2 Dec 1902
Birth Place: Bocking End
Christen Date: 8 Jan 1903
Christen Place: Bocking
Death Date: 10 Jan 1903
Death Place: Bocking End
2 Albert Pelham Joslin
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Birth Date: 6 Aug 1903
Birth Place: Braintree, Essex
Death Date: 1944
Death Place: Tooting, London
Occupation: Commodities Dealer
1942 Telephone directory gives address of Joslin A P as 16 Ansell Road SW17.
Note, died as a result of a VI bomb, one of the first to land on London.
This is the Albert who is sitting cross legged on the grass second from the right in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Spouse: Hannah Brightside
Birth Date: 18 Sep 1902
Birth Place: St Marylebone
Death Date: Sep 1949
Death Place: London
Marriage Date: 19 Jun 1928
Marriage Place: Westminster
Children: Ethel Beatrice
Violet Hannah
Rose Elizabeth
3 Harriet Pelham Joslin
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Birth Date: 7 Jul 1905
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 4 Apr 1997
Death Place: Maldon, Essex
Dorothy, this is the Harriet in the 1911 Longlands photograph. The only record I can find that fits the facts is a death record for Harriet Joslin in 1997. She died a spinster in a care home in Maldon.
Francis Marshall (who married your great aunt Isabella) and their family
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Birth Date: 1876
Birth Place: Coggeshall
Death Date: 1916
Death Place: France
Occupation: 1902-4 Insurance Agent (from children’s birth certificates)
Spouse: Isabella Joslin (your great aunt)
Birth Date: 14 Sep 1881
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 9 Nov 1948
Death Place: Colchester
Spouse Father: Albert Joslin (1851-1923)
Spouse Mother: Pitternell White (1858-1931)
Isabella is seated next to her father in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Marriage Date: 1901
Marriage Place: Bocking
Children:
1 Phoebe ‘Bee’ Isabella Marshall
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Birth Date: 29 May 1902
Birth Place: Coggershall
Death Date: About 17 Jul 1983
Death Place: Bride’s Cottage, Bridekirk Cockermouth
Burial Date: Jul 1983
Burial Place: Bridekirk, Cumbria
Phoebe was the first of the family that I was able to identify with any certainty. It was Phoebe’s grave that I found in Bridekirk churchyard. Phoebe visited your mother together with Ethel Ingleby (Joslin) and Ethel’s children Susan and Paul.
Phoebe is in the Longlands 1911 photograph as ‘Bee’
1.2 Albert William Francis Marshall
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Birth Date: 11 Nov 1904
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 1939
Death Place: France
Albert is in the Longlands 1911 photograph and is captioned as ‘Albert M’.
Joseph Joslin (your grandfather) and his family
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Birth Date: 2 Mar 1883
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 9 May 1915
Death Place: Near Ypres, France
Joseph died without having ever seen his daughter Fanny, possibly without even knowing that he was a father. In the 1911 Longlands photograph he is seated and on the far right of the row.
Spouse: Fanny Holland
Birth Date: 1886
Birth Place: Colchester
Death Date: 9 Oct 1922
Death Place: Bocking
The photo of Fanny in Longlands album matches your photo from your mother’s papers. The rest of the information you already have so I have not repeated anything but the bare facts here.
Marriage Date: 15 Aug 1914
Marriage Place: Colchester
Children: Fanny
1 Fanny Joslin (your mother)
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Birth Date: 19 Apr 1915
Birth Place: Colchester
Death Date: 1963
Death Place: Brighton
Spouse: Byron Weston
Occupation: RN
Reported to have died at sea.
Children: Dorothy
James Dix Myers (who married your great aunt Alethia) and their family
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Birth Date: 4 Jul 1892
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 2 May 1968
Death Place: Braintree
James is standing in the back row, second from the right next to his brother Henry in the Longlands 1911 photograph. According to the postcard sent by their son Henry from training camp in October 1942, James and Alethia were living at 27 Grenville Road, Braintree, Essex.
Spouse: Alethia Joslin (your great aunt)
Birth Date: 2 Sep 1892
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 10 Jul 1970
Death Place: Braintree
Spouse Father: Albert Joslin (1851-1923)
Spouse Mother: Pitternell White (1858-1931)
Other Spouse: Barbara Vaughan
Note. Alethia is also variously recorded as Aletha and Alethea. Alethia is the original elusive ‘self ’ of the 1911 Longlands photograph. She is standing second from the left, next to a visitor, Mr. Melville.
Marriage Date: 8 Mar 1922
Marriage Place: Chelmsford
Children:
1 Henry Dix Myers
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Birth Date: 16 Oct 1922
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 18 Sep 1943
Death Place: over Germany
Burial Date: 1945
Burial Place: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Occupation: RAF
Other information discovered: October 1942 at RAF training camp; 1943 at RAF Waterbeach; Died when shot down navigating a bomber over Germany in 1943. He was removed from his original burial place in 1945 and re-interred at Reichswald.
Spouse: Kathleen Farrow
Birth Date: 1923
Birth Place: Dover
Marriage Date: 22 May 1943
Marriage Place: Cambridge
2 Verity Dix Myers
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Birth Date: 16 Oct 1922
Birth Place: Braintree
Apart from her birth record and the reference to her on the postcard to her parents, no other record has been found under Myers or Dix Myers or variants of these. She may have emigrated or she may yet still be alive and living in the UK.
Albert Pelham Joslin (your great uncle Albert’s son, which makes him your 1st Cousin ‘once removed’) and his family
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Birth Date: 6 Aug 1903
Birth Place: Braintree, Essex
Death Date: 1944
Death Place: Tooting, London
Occupation: Commodities Dealer
1942 Telephone directory gives address of Joslin A P as 16 Ansell Road SW17. He died as a result of a VI bomb, one of the first to land on London. This is the Albert who is sitting cross legged on the grass second from the right in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Spouse: Hannah Brightside
Birth Date: 18 Sep 1902
Birth Place: St Marylebone
Death Date: Sep 1949
Death Place: London
Marriage Date: 19 Jun 1928
Marriage Place: Westminster
Children:
1 Ethel Beatrice Joslin
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Birth Date: 10 Oct 1929
Birth Place: Tooting
Death Date: 7 Oct 1972<
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Death Place: Oxford
Ethel is the third woman in the picture from your kitchen drawer, together with your mother and Phoebe Marshall. Ethel is your ‘second cousin’, as are her sisters Violet and Rose. Ethel and her family are the once most often featured in the album with the seaside holiday pictures. When she added to the album Ethel wrote herself as ‘self ’.
Spouse: Frederick Ingleby
Birth Date: 3 Jan 1924
Birth Place: Hemel Hempstead
Death Date: 6 Feb 1975
Death Place: Oxford
Occupation: Electrical Engineer
Marriage Date: 3 Dec 1951
Marriage Place: Chelsea
Children: Susan Dorcas