Richard’s Genealogy
François Joslin
Est 1770 - Abt 1799 (~ 29 years)
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Name François Joslin - Surname spelt Goslin in the Grouville baptisms, and Joslin in the St Saviour baptism.
Gender Male Born Est 1770 Died Abt 1799 - His youngest daughter was born on 12 Jan 1799, and his widow remarried on 30 Mar 1800. This means François died sometime between Apr 1798 and Mar 1800.
Person ID I1176 Richard's Genealogy Last Modified 28 Jan 2022
Family Jeanne Melet, b. Est 1770, bur. 21 Feb 1820, St Helier, Jersey 
(Age ~ 50 years) Notes - It's unclear whether this is one family or two. The eldest two children were baptised at Grouville, children of François Goslin and Jeanne Kelly his wife. The last child was baptised in St Saviour, the daughter of François Joslin and Jeanne Melet his wife. The difference in spelling of the father's name seems inconsequential, as all three children are spelt Josselin on their own marriages at St Helier. They are the only three Goslin / Gosselin / Joslin / Josselin children baptised in Jersey between 1710 and 1808, and the dates of birth form a neat sequence consistent with them being a single family: 1794, '96 and '99. Furthermore, the children acted as godparents to each other's children, suggesting they were all related.
It seems much more likely than not that the father François is the same man, and on balance probably they share the same mother too, and one or both of Kelly and Melet is a misrendering. A similarly improbable misrendering of a surname occurs in their eldest daughter Jeanne's family: her second marriage record names her husband Canning, but in fact he was a Kelling.
Children + 1. Jeanne Joslin, bp. 28 Dec 1794, Grouville, Jersey , d. 29 May 1856, St Helier, Jersey (Age ~ 61 years)+ 2. Jean Joslin, bp. 1 Apr 1796, Grouville, Jersey , d. 13 Aug 1861, St Helier, Jersey (Age ~ 65 years)+ 3. Françoise Joslin, b. 12 Jan 1799, St Saviour, Jersey , d. 1874, Jersey (Age 74 years)Last Modified 3 Mar 2017 Family ID F355 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Virtually nothing is known about François. There appears to be no baptism, marriage or burial for him anywhere on Jersey. He does not appear on the 1815 muster role, nor is he on the 1841 census. The 1809 baptism for his daughter Françoise does not say he's dead, though I suspect he had died as I think Jean Melet remarried in 1800. It seems most likely he was born in France, probably in Normandy or Brittany where the surname Gosselin is fairly common, and arrived in Grouville in the early 1790s, maybe fleeing the French Revolution. Pierre Gosselin, who had settled in Grouville from France by 1805, could be a younger brother of François.
Other immigrants to Jersey with related surnames are: Paul Gosselin (b 1800, France), Louis Nicolas Désiré Gosselin (b 1809, La Manche), John Joslin (b 1810, Devon), James Jocelyn (b 1811, Hampshire), Caroline Joslin (b 1818, England), Auguste Jean François Gosselin (b 1818, La Manche), Ann Jocelyn (b 1826, Hampshire), Eugène Pierre Gosselin (b 1840, La Manche), Auguste Gosselin (b 1850, La Manche), Angelina Josselin (b 1877, Côtes d'Armor), Charles Henry Joslin (b 1879, Hampshire) and Pierre Marie Jean Baptiste Gosselin (b 1885, Côtes d'Armor).
- Virtually nothing is known about François. There appears to be no baptism, marriage or burial for him anywhere on Jersey. He does not appear on the 1815 muster role, nor is he on the 1841 census. The 1809 baptism for his daughter Françoise does not say he's dead, though I suspect he had died as I think Jean Melet remarried in 1800. It seems most likely he was born in France, probably in Normandy or Brittany where the surname Gosselin is fairly common, and arrived in Grouville in the early 1790s, maybe fleeing the French Revolution. Pierre Gosselin, who had settled in Grouville from France by 1805, could be a younger brother of François.