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Below are notes that may or may not help others; They start with James Malin born 1786/7;
The Malins.
From those records readily available, our story starts in the agricultural communities in the middle of Warwickshire. We join the story in 1787 with the birth of James Malin, born in Napton-on-the- Hill, a village much today as it was then, but now the population has grown to almost 1000, no doubt mainly commuters to the employment centre of Northampton 25 miles east, and Warwick and Stratford to the west. Oxford is to the south (around 30 miles and this fact is significant in our tale.). On the hill is significant also, as it is one of the few Warwickshire villages literally on top of a hill.
It is very likely but not confirmed that James was the child, or one of the children, of Thomas Malin of Church Lawford, who married Elizabeth Thenson of Newbold. She signed X in the register. The marriage was 23rd October 1781.
In the 1841 Census, James is living at ‘Right Hand To Howcombe’ a description rather than an address suggesting that there are no road names as such in use. James is 55 years old at this point, and is living here with his family consisting of Hannah, also 55 years old, Daughter Mary (25) and son Edward, aged 20. James occupation is given as Agricultural Labourer, yet no occupation is noted for Mary or Edward. Edward was christened in Napton-on-the- Hill on 29th August 1819.
In the same census, living at “Butt Hill” in Napton on the Hill is the household of John Malin aged 60, a shoemaker and his wife (tbc) Mercy Malin. There is also a James Malin aged 30, (Agricultural Labourer) and another James Malin aged 6. I speculate that these are the son and Grandson of John & Mercy.
There are other Malins also around…
NAPTON-ON-THE-HILL Baptisms 1813 – 1837.
Malin
Ann 1814 and 1836
Edward 1819
Elizabeth 1818
Emma 1816
George 1816
Hannah 1821
Harriet 1822
Harriet 1825
James 1834
John 1815, 1816 & 1833
Mary 1814 (2)
Mary Anne 1814
Thomas 1822
Walter Watson 1813
Census are taken on 31st March, and in the December of 1841, Edward marries Hannah Gardener. In the March census Hannah is recorded as a “Female Servant” at the fine house known as Portland Place in Leamington Priors, just a short distance along the canal from Napton. Hannah is one of 4 servants of the Anderson household there.
By the time of the 1881 Census Edward Malin has his own household with Hannah in Napton on the Hill. He is married to Hannah now aged 61 who was born at Shuckburgh, Warwick.
In the household with them are the daughter Emma aged 33. Emma was born in March 1848, and married William Duckham* of Napton, on 28th March 1872 at St. Mary, Leamington Priors. (William was 25, and Emma 21.) William is not living there on the night of the census, but there are 2 children, Edward junior aged 4 and Flora aged 10 months are. Emma’s occupation is given as miners wife, but the is no mining around here so what gives? He children where in fact born at Swallows Nest near Rotherham. Joseph* Edward (named after both his grandfathers) born June 1877 & Florence (Flora) born June 1880. (*William’s parents are Joseph and Jane Duckham (nee Gilks) who married in Napton on 25th August 1840.)
At some point after June 1880, the young family travelled back to Napton on the Hill and where there on the night of 31st March 1881. Swallows Nest Rotherham was very much a mining community, so was this a family visit? On the night of the census, William (aged 34) was at home in Chapel Row, Aston Cum Aughton, Yorkshire. We leave the Duckhams here and return to the Malins.
Edward & Hannah Malin’s first son was Thomas, who was born September 1842, and christened 12th February 1843 at St. Lawrence Church Napton On The Hill. In the 1881 census, Thomas’s occupation is Canal Toll Collector. He is married to Harriett aged 34 who was born in Allesley, Warwick. They married March 1869 and Harriett’s maiden name was Rollins also recorded as Rawlins just to confuse matters. The children are;
1. George Wallace Malin (Grandads father) who was born in Oxford in March 1870.
2. Annie A., aged 8, also born in Oxford.
3. Lizzie Rebecca aged 7, born Oxford in June 1874.
4. Thomas Frederick born in Foleshill (North of Coventry) in June 1876.
5. Amy Eunice born at Stretton Stop, Lutterworth on March 1879.
Home at this time is “Stretton Stop” (at Stretton under Fosse) in the district Monks Kirby, Warwickshire. This is a canal ‘centre’ with loading and unloading and at the time of the census was a main thoroughfare for coal transport. Thomas’s job was to agree the weight carried with the canal operators and collect the tolls, as canals were private ‘roads’ at this time.
10 years later, (1891 census) Thomas Harriet & the family are still here. Thomas is still the canal toll collector but George is now employed as a “Canal clerk”. Lizzie is 17, Thomas Frederick is 15 and Amy Eunice is 12.
The above information suggest that Thomas started working on the canals quite early in his career, because the children where born at three different canal locations (Oxford in 1870, Foleshill in 1874 & 1876 and Stretton Stop in 1879. Canals were company owned so I might suggest that Thomas was employed by one company and promoted around the place, and a clue to him having a good reputation is the fact George Wallace Malin was also employed on the canals. Thomas would also have to have been numerate and literate, and George Wallace having a clerk’s position suggests Thomas and Harriett are supportive of breaking away from the more manual labour of their fathers and Thomas’s younger brother Edward.
The Oxford Canal and the Warwick and Napton Canal are all part of the Grand Union Canal. There is also a flight of locks on the Oxford Canal, which climbs around the hill that Napton is situated upon.
Harriet (George Wallace Malins Mother) was born nearby, the daughter of John & Rebecca Rawlins who married in December 1841 in the Coventry area. Earlier in the year, the census of March 1841 tells us the as yet unmarried Harriett lived with her family at Charlecote* just outside Stratford:
1841 Census
Piece: HO107/1134/3 Place: Warwick -Warwickshire Enumeration District: 13 Civil Parish: Charlecote Ecclesiastical Parish:
Head of the household is John Lockley aged 55 (same age as James Malin and the same occupation, Agricultural Labourer. Wife is Alise aged 55, daughter Rebecca aged 21, and son John Lockley (junior) also aged 21, also an Agricultural Labourer.
* Charlecote Park is now National Trust owned and I thing the Church is in the grounds.
A possible second son of Edward & Hannah is revealed in the 1891 census:
Name Position Age Occupation Status Where Born
James Malin Head 46 Grocer's Manager Employed Napton Warwickshire
Jane Malin Wife 49 Napton Warwickshire
Charlotte Malin Daughter 17 Dressmaker Napton Warwickshire
Parsons Malin Son 17 Grocer's Assistant Employed Napton Warwickshire
Lilian Malin Daughter 15 Scholar Napton Warwickshire
Alice Malin Daughter 13 Scholar Napton Warwickshire
Rose Malin Daughter 10 Scholar Napton Warwickshire
William Evill Boarder 31 Evangelist Employed Shilton Wiltshire
George Wallace Malin.
George married in September 1899 in High Wycombe, Buckingham shire to Fanny Coombes (Coombe). George was 29 (+/-1) and Fanny 24 (+/-1), and she was born in Tylers Green, a tiny village in Buckinghamshire. Her family was recorded in the 1881 census as:
Name Position in Household Age Occupation Where Born
William Coombe Head 41 Bricklayers Labourer Tylers Green, Buckingham
Annie Coombe Wife 35 Lacemaker Tylers Green, Buckingham
Emily Coombe Daughter 13 Tylers Green, Buckingham
Frederick Coombe Son 11 Tylers Green, Buckingham
Bertha Coombe Daughter 8 Tylers Green, Buckingham
Fanny Coombe Daughter 6 Tylers Green, Buckingham
The address was given as ‘West Common’ and William had married Ann (Annie) Giskin in December 1864 in the Wycombe district.
Quite how George met Fanny is not known, and there is no particular clue given that George was in Stretton Stop in 1891 as a canal clerk. More research may reveal. Although married in Wycombe in 1899, by 1901, George and Fanny had moved to Woodford where George was the head master of Woodford School, now Woodford Preparatory School. Home was ‘Back Lane’ Woodford (post code SK7 1RQ) which (I think) is behind the church, and although not on the map now, there is a ‘Back Lane’ farm. Woodford is now a wealthy footballers domain. The school history has pictures of the Malins.
In or just before December 1900, Dorothy Violet Malin, the first child was born, followed by George Frederick in October 1904 and then Lucy in August/September 1906.
George married Hannah (Nancy) Crowe in Wrexham in 1932. I recall that Grandma (Hannah Crowe) told the story of how she was working in a Boots Chemist and Grandad was the dispenser / pharmacist and so I presume this is how they met. Given Dora’s knowledge of Liverpool on her visit in 1973 and her marriage in Liverpool in 1918, I am wondering if Liverpool was the connection, given that Grandad (George Frederick Malin) qualified at Liverpool school of chemistry in 1927. There were trains etc from Wrexham to Liverpool around this time. Just a thought.
Footnote: Thomas Malin: My elder brother Robert recalls a story that Thomas may have been run down by a train whilst walking home inebriated. The closest match on the records to age and location is a death recorded in June 1911 in Northampton, when Thomas would have been 68/69 years old. Northampton is not far from the Napton and Stretton ‘bases’.
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