In March 1851, Joseph Delamont was a dairyman at Oil Moor.

Joseph was born at Hardington on 31 March 1792, the son of Lewis and Elizabeth. His father died the following year, aged about 35.

On 11 April 1814, Joseph married Mary Harris at Hardington. She had been born and brought up in Leigh or Yetminster, Dorset.

Joseph and Mary lived at Oil Moor, possibly at the Royal Oak or what was later to become the Royal Oak. Joseph was a skin collector in June 1841 and a dairyman in March 1851.

Their only son, Benjamin, died in November 1838, aged 23.

On 6 April 1839, their only daughter, Harriet, married Abraham Saint at Hardington church.

On 25 January 1850, Joseph sold the fee simple of a flax pit to Abraham Saint, a labourer of Hardington, for £6. The plot was number 93 on the parish tithe map.[1]

Joseph died in February 1859, aged 69. His only daughter, Harriett, and her husband, Abraham Saint, died within a year afterwards, leaving one child, Louisa, who married Joseph Partridge on 7 February 1860.

In April 1861, Mary lived with her daughter, Louisa. In April 1871, she lived in the household of Joseph Marsh, her deceased husband’s nephew. She died on 27 December 1872, aged 84.

 References

[1] Indenture dated 25 January 1850.