John Mallet (MMMFF)

[Mary from Italy]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
John Mallet

Date and place of birth
c. 1781, probably in the Lichfield/Weeford area of Staffordshire

Names of parents
Probably Thomas Mallet and Elizabeth (Betty) Jackson

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Not known

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
15/10/1813 at Weston-on-Trent parish church, Staffordshire
John Mallet of the Parish of Mancetter, Warwickshire, and Mary-Anne Bentley OTP
By banns, both signed.
Witnesses: Wm Bentley and Ann Tansley

Occupation(s) - if any [/COLOR]
1814: labourer
1815: servant
1818: labourer
1820: farmer
1823: bailiff
The above occupations come from his children's baptism entries.
After his death, his occupation was given on his children's marriages certs as gardener, farmer or bailiff.

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK)

1813: Mancetter, Warwickshire
1814: Weston on Trent, Staffordshire
1815: Baxterley, Warwickshire
1817: Stafford, Staffordshire
1818: Wilnecote/Dosthill, Warwickshire
1820: Wilnecote/Dosthill, Warwickshire
1823: Wilnecote, Warwickshire

Date, place and cause of death
Died Dosthill, Warwickshire, in 1827, aged 46.

Date and place of burial
Buried 27 Sep 1827 at St. Michael's Church, Lichfield, Staffordshire

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
None found

Memorial inscription - if any
Not known

John was the father of my GG-grandfather Thomas Mallet. According to Thomas's baptism, at Tamworth, Staffordshire on 27 December 1818, his parents were James and Mary Anne Mallet of Wilnecote, but I think the name James must be a mistake, because according to our Mallet family bible, Thomas was born on 6/12/1818, the son of John Mallet of Dostol (Dosthill is a village adjacent to Wilnecote), and his father is named as John Mallet, farmer, on his marriage certificate.

I've never found a baptism for John; the information I have about him is pieced together from family wills. 3 of his siblings (I haven't found the others) were baptised at Weeford, near Lichfield. The Weeford baptism register is in poor condition, and John's baptism may be one of the many illegible entries.

Dosthill, Wilnecote and Tamworth are on the border of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and were in both counties at different times.