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Robert MALLET

Male 1755 - 1804  (49 years)


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  • Name Robert MALLET  [1
    Birth 16 Jan 1755  North Tawton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
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    • Robert Mallett left Devon, went briefly to London and later moved to Dublin in Ireland. Sometime after his arrival in Dublin, Robert set up in business as a cabinetmaker at 62 Capel Street. Something must have happened to his first wife, Mary Short, because by the time he had moved to Dublin in 1782, Robert had married Anne Pike. He was also described as having married into the business of his father-in-law, William Pike, who owned a plumbing and sanitary business at 16 Ship Street, Dublin. Robert and Anne then had a daughter, Thomasina. William Pike died in 1801 and it is assumed that Robert took over his father-in-law's business. According to a book entitled 'Robert Mallet: Engineer and Scientist' written by Dr Ronald C Cox, the business also manufactured:

      'all kinds of water and fire engines, forcing and lifting pumps, patent and common water closests....the patent water closet (was) manufactured and sold by him, and no where else in the Kingdom'

      In the two volume book entitled 'History of the Mallet Family', it is mentioned that Robert was one of three branches of the Mallet family establised in Dublin at around the turn of the century, and describes Robert as a cabinetmaker living at 16 Ship Street.

      An article on the Irish Architectural Archive refers to Robert as a cabinetmaker and plumber and also a descendant of the family of the Mallet family of Ash. It also refers to Robert as being born in England circa 1759.

      Sometime after Robert's nephew, John Mallet, married his daughter, Thomasina Mallet; the business referred to above became successful which traded under the name of 'J. & R. Mallet', with premises at 7, 8 and 9 Ryder's Row and further premises at Royal Canal, Phibsboro at a later date.

      In the book referred to above, it is mentioned that Robert was a Freeman of the Carpenter's Guild and that he apprenticed his nephew, John, to the same Guild. However, the book explains that it is not possible to verify this as the records of the Guild when it, with others, was abolished by the Municipal Reform Act of 1840, which were then handed over to the Public Record Office (Dublin) for safekeeping in 1906. They were lost when that Office was destroyed in the Civil War in 1922.

      The book also states that Robert died on 24th June 1804 and is buried in the Huguenot Cemetery on Merrion Row. Robert's grave is marked by a large recumbent tombstone, which says he was born at North Tawton in Devonshire and was 50 years of age at his death. The book refers to portraits in oils that suggested that Robert and his family were simple, respectable folk with the Huguenot extraction of his wife, Anne Pike, being particularly evident. It also explains that at the time of Robert's death, he was building a dwelling house and business premises combined at Ryder's Row in Dublin.

      [Copyright 2010 - Trevor Brice and Richard Mallett. Not to be reproduced without the authors' permission]

      'Robert moved to Dublin and was the founder of an Iron Foundry at Ryders Row, Dublin. Having no son of his own, he enlisted the services of his nephew John (Irish Jack), son of James and Ann Lacey, as an apprentice in the business. Irish Jack did not take happily to this life, as we know from one of his letters which I have, and he returned to Devon. On the departure of Irish Jack, another nephew, John, son of Richard, came to assist his uncle'.

      [Source: Colin Mallet]
    SW Group
    UKC 1881
    Occupation 1781  62 Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Cabinet maker 
    Occupation 1782  [3
    Cabinet maker 
    Reference Number 143 
    Death 24 Jun 1804  Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Burial 27 Jun 1804 
    • Huguenot Cemetery on Merrion Row, Dublin, Ireland
    Person ID I9363  Southwest
    Last Modified 9 May 2016 

    Father John MALLET,   b. 9 May 1714, South Tawton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 1788, North Tawton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Jane CUNNETT,   b. 1 Nov 1715, Throwleigh, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1756, North Tawton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years) 
    Marriage 18 Aug 1737  Throwleigh, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2920  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anne PIKE,   b. Abt 1759, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 5 Dec 1782  St Bride, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
    +1. Thomasina Jane MALLET,   b. 9 Dec 1784, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1861 (Age 76 years)
     2. Mary Ann MALLET,   b. Abt 1786, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Louisa MALLET,   b. Abt 1788, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Hannah MALLET,   b. 7 Nov 1790, Dublin, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1852, Clevedon, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    Family ID F3054  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Jan 1755 - North Tawton, Devon, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Cabinet maker - 1781 - 62 Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 5 Dec 1782 - St Bride, Dublin, Ireland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Jun 1804 - Dublin, Ireland Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2258] Richard mallett, compiler, Reading, UK, Descendants of James Mallett of Spreyton, Devon, England, database, privately held by Robert Mallett, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, M23S202, M23R260, Jan 3, 2016., M23S202, M23R260.

    2. [S2137] Dictionary of Irish Architects: Name: Irish Architectural Archive; Location: www.dia.ie/architects; Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of Irish Architects.

    3. [S2126] Irish Genealogy: Location: www.irishgenealogy.ie; Hereinafter cited as Irish Genealogy.

    4. [S2149] Caroline Tilbury Hereinafter cited as Caroline Tilbury.

    5. [S2100] Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, UT, USA. Hereinafter cited as Ancestry.com.