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Bapt. 13 Apr 1801 Blundeston/Chris. 26 May 1803
Robert MALLETT b. 09 Apr 1801 Blundeston, Suffolk - d. 25 Nov 1878 Union Road, PEI. age 76 yrs 6 m, bur: Union Road Cem Lot 33, Cem 8, stone 34, son of John Mallett and Sarah Tuttle of Bungay.
Robert Mallett with his wife Lydia and their four sons and her brother John, emigrated from Suffolk Co. Eng in 1835 and settled at Union Road, P.E.I. on a farm.
The two baptism may be a confusion of two Roberts but are also possibly baptisms in different faiths.
Gravestone inscriptions:
Mallett 33/8/-
In memory of Robert Mallett/ Died
Nov 25 1876 Age 76y 6m
Happy he whom Christ shall find
Watching to see him come
Him the Judge at all Mankind
Shall bear triumphant home
One quotation re cem inscriptons adds 'Emigrated from England to this Island in 1835.'
[Lydia's gravestone in fact reads "Mellett." while Robert's reads "Mallett." Lydia was responsible for changing the name to Mellett--half the family went by the Mellett until a Mallett reunion in the 1940s. Following that occasion, some of her descendants reverted to Mallett; some never did. Lydia said "there were too many Malletts on the Island." There were three distinct lines of Malletts. Lydia might simply not have been good at spelling, since she also seems to have spelled her maiden name differently in different places. I do not have records of these but on the first handwritten trees, we do have Bryanton, Bryenton, Brayanton, Brianton.]
Ilketshall marriage rec's: Lydia m. by banns, 10 June 1824, Ilketshall St Andrew Suffolk. Robert MALLETT, both otp. Witnesses: William Mallett x & Maria Bryenon, both signing with X's . S: Tina Mattocks
1851 Census for Ditchingham shows John Mallett (father of Robert and Sarah) father living there with his second wife
Ditchingham is about 3 miles from St Andrews towards Norwich Norfolk and next door there was a family of Bryantons:
John age 50 shoemaker born in Broome Norfolk (next door to Ditchingham)
Liza his wife age 50 born in Ditchingham
Elizabeth - daughter age 22 power silk weaver born in Seething (3 miles away)
John - son age 20 shoemaker born in Surlingham (near Norwich)
Walter - son 14 bricklayers labourer - born in Surlingham
Maryann - daughter 12 scholar born in Ditchingham
William - son 10 - born in Bungay)
Re: the Bryenton listings: Tina writes, "All these Bryantons seemed to be shoemakers. Roberts Malletts brother Walter (my line) went to London and they were all shoemakers."
Lydia came from Bungay. Her parents were John Bryanton and Mary Warren. She and some of her brothers and sisters were baptised in Bungay in the Church of England and then it seems the parents became attached to the Weslyan Church because they were all baptised again there in 1813. My cousin has checked the Weslyan Registers for Bungay and it is verified.--Tina
As you know, the marriage of Robert Mallett to Lydia Bryanton was in the same village as Sarah Mallett and Wm. Payne's. A village of a few houses and a church, at least at was in 1960, situated 3 miles south west of Bungay.--Ted
Beccles is 6 miles east of Bungay, Worlingham is 3 mile east of Beccles,the biggest town, a real city, is Lowestoft, 8 miles further east.Ilketshalls, there are two, 3 miles south of Bungay. Ipswich is 35 miles south west of Bungay.
From John Mallett in 1999:
"The farm home was indeed built by Abraham Gill in 1825-26.
George Artemus [Robert's gt grandson, Walter's son, John's son, Ivan's father] was born at the original Mallett farm in York in the home that was torn down for [Charlottetown] airport runway expansion.(1979-80).
Ambrose Mallett (page 418 VY) farmed on the original Mallett farm on the Union Rd.which runs parallel to the York Rd.
See page 26 VY, the home on the left is the home that John Mallett (1855) greatly expanded on his purchase of 1880.
Lydia Bryanton and Williiam Mallet, both signing with X's, were the witnesses at Sarah Mallett's marriage by banns and otp to William Payne, 11 Sep 1822.
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