Dollin family cottage in Water Street (now Park Street, Duster, Somerset, England. Photo of Robert Dollin and his wife taken early 1800’s ? Robert, with his rake over his shoulder to attend The Village Garden which was opposite the cottage.
Above: At the end of Park Street, once called Water Street is this lovely thatched cottage where the Dollins used to live.
Some of The Dollin Brothers. Septimus at right.
Dollins Buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, GWHwy St Mary’s
DOLLIN, Albert George, d. 24/8/1976
DOLLIN, Clara Mary, d. 15/11/1977
DOLLIN, Eleanor Joan, d. 29/4/1947
DOLLIN, Emma Ellen, d. 28/6/1963
DOLLIN, George Albert, d. 28/6/1935
DOLLIN, Henry I , d. 8/12/1861
DOLLIN, Henry Thomas, d. 28/3/1972
DOLLIN, Mary Ann, d. 20/8/1949
DOLLIN, Mary Ann, d. 9/5/1922
DOLLIN, Septimus, d. 24/4/1975
DOLLIN, Thomas, d. 22/1/1890
This was the family home of the Dollin family which was situated in Sainsbury St, St Marys and has long since been demolished. The home belonged to George Albert Dollin, the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Dollin. Thomas Dollin was born at Dunstan, Somerset in England on 1st May, 1831 – he was a stone-mason by trade. He married Mary Ann Amor on 21st November, 1854 at Taunton, Somerset – Mary Ann was a house servant, who was born in Somerset on 21st November, 1831. Both Thomas and Mary Ann could read and write. Their first son, Henry Isaac Dollin was born in 1856 and the family emigrated to Australian on the “S S Herefordshire” which arrived in Australia on 27th May, 1857. Thomas and Mary Ann first settled in the New England (Clarence Town) area, where a daughter, Caroline Amor Dollin was born in 1858, and then they came to settle in St Marys where George Albert Dollin was born on 12th August, 1860. Mary Ann was the midwife for the district and Thomas built many of the buildings in the area. Their sons, Henry Thomas and Albert George were tanners in the tannery works at St Marys, and another son Jack was also known in the district as an excellent runner, cricketer and footballer. Two grandchildren, Roy and Norman Dollin (brothers) served in World War 1 with the Light Horse. Another grandchild, Thomas Dollin, worked on the railway bridge over South Creek as a carpenter. Thomas (snr) died at the age of 58 in 1890 and Mary Ann died in 1922 at the age of 90 years. Both are buried in St Mary Magdalene Anglican Churchyard. George Albert Dollin their son married a local girl Mary Ann Andrews in 1881. They had 15 children, a son Jack Hunter Dollin, worked for Bennett’s Wagon Works. George died at the age of 75 in 1935 and Mary Ann died at the age of 86 in 1949 and they are also buried in St Mary Magdalene graveyard.
(Researched from Dollin family history, the late Albert Evans & Lyn Forde)
DOLLIN – Meaning and Spelling(s) of Name
Recorded in various spellings including: Dollen, Dollin and Dolling, this is an Anglo-Irish surname of pre medieval or even 7th century origins. If English it is a derivative of the word “dollyng”, and hence a nickname for an honest person, one who was uncomplicated and “straight”. The name is also recorded in Ireland as O’Dowling, Dolling and Dowling, and may be of English origin or may be a derivative of the original Gaelic O’Dunlain. Translating as “the son of the descendant of the warrior”, a reference to the first chief of the clan in the 9th century, and one of the original “septs of Leix”, they held lands along the famous Barrow River, which was for many centuries know as “Fearrann ua nDunlaing” or O’Dowlings country. The name development taken from surviving rolls, registers and charters of England Ireland include: Peter Dollyng, recorded in the city of Worcester in 1275, Thady Dowling, a famous Irish grammarian who flourished about the year 1544, and Joan Dollin, who married Gilbert Knapp in London in 1617. The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of William Dolling. This was dated 1243, in the “Pipe Rolls” of the county of Somerset, during the reign of King Henry 111, 1216 – 1272. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to “develop” often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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