Family: Thomas Joll / Eliza Clymo/JOLL

Over the years, contact was maintained between John Delbridge, Roy and Sid Joll, and as each new piece of information came to light it was shared by the latter two with John Delbridge. But still no link could be made. Nor was John just sitting hopeful that information would fall into his lap. He had tried to establish a greater knowledge of his side of the family. 

However, try as he might, he could only establish that
his grandfather was James Clymo Joll, son of a Thomas Joll;
that he had married Elizabeth Jane Delbridge (hence John’s second name) in the parish church at Camborne on June 6th, 1863. 

He also knew from anecdotal information that James Clymo was a bricklayer and plasterer and had worked as a foreman on the Lyttleton [Lyttelton] rail tunnel. 

The family are also reputed to have been camped under canvass on the banks of the Heathcote stream on the arrival in Canterbury.
The Canterbury Jolls - Page 57 History of the Joll Family : Hawke's Bay Knowledge Bank | Archived extracts

Discovery of the Joll Family Bible...

When Mr Adrian Lessiter of Camborne, in early 1985, son of Mr. Brian and Mrs Celia Lessiter, of 98 College St Camborne stumbled upon a Joll family bible in Gurney’s Lane in Camborne, he was totally unaware as to the history which lay behind it, and to whom it belonged, and to whom it should be entrusted. There it lay, abandoned on open ground, and for anyone who cared to pick it up. It was close to the rear of the offices of Messrs Daniell and Thomas, the Camborne solicitors, and in fact as it subsequently turned out, rested less than four hundred yards from the still existent Camborne home of the 19th century Joll family.

Contents of the Bible...

Page 60 History of the Joll Family : Hawke's Bay Knowledge Bank | Archived extracts

The bible was dated 1838 and in its front fly leaves was inscribed as follows:

Thomas and Eliza Joll married March 15 1838

• William Joll born 21 October 1839
• James Clymo Joll born 17th February 1842
• Emeley Ann Joll born 8th December 1844
• Eliza Joll born 16th February 1848
• Mary Anna Joll born 22nd November 1850

Thomas Joll died 27th August 1882