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John BELLETT
1835 - 1878 (43 years)
Has 21 ancestors and 8 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name John BELLETT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 6 Feb 1835 Baptised 1 Mar 1835 St. Thomas à Becket Church, Dodbrooke, Devon, England 
- From DFHS CD
Bellett, John son of Sarah, single woman.
Sally is the only Sarah / Sally I know of of the right sort of age to have been the mother of John. With her brother Thomas marrying in Dodbrooke in 1833 and having his first child baptised there in 1834, possibly she stayed with him and his wife to have her child.
Sally seems to have been officially Sally, but with Sally being a pet form of Sarah could easily have had someone think they were recording her formal name by changing Sally to Sarah.
Gender Male Occupation 1851 Cornworthy, Devon, England Agricultural Servant - On the farm of Agnes Tucker, a widow, who was the farmer of 145 acres and was employing 4 labourers.
One of Agnes' sons, present on census night, was a mariner in the merchant service - did he influence John's decision to become a mariner?
Occupation 1878 Master Mariner - Ship Hesperia - At the time of his death (from deaths at sea register)
Died 23 Jun 1878 Colombo, Sri Lanka Cause: Congestion of the brain - Ellen described as mariner's wife in the 1871 census, a widow by 1881. Death date and place from probate calendar entry.
The register of deaths at sea has an entry for a John Bellett, 1878, which is clearly this John (image on Ancestry, viewed 1 Sep 2018)
Grant of Administration 9 Sep 1878 Exeter, Devon, England Probate Calendar entry - "Bellett John.
Personal Estate under £300.
9 September. Administration of the Personal Estate of
John Bellett late of Dartmouth in the County of Devon
Master Mariner who died 23 June 1878 at Colombo in the
East Indies was grated at Exeter to Ellen Bellett of
Dartmouth Widow the Relict."
Siblings1 sister Patriarch & Matriarch 
Mary Ann SEAGGLE, b. Abt 1780, Blackawton, Devon, England, d. Mar Q 1862, Kingsbridge Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 82 years) (Grandmother) 
Person ID I10292 All Last Modified 15 Nov 2022
Mother Sally BELLETT, bap. 13 Apr 1817, St. Michael’s Church, Blackawton, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown
Other Partners: Michael HEAD m. Sep Q 1841Family ID F4886 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Ellen ANDERSON, b. Jun Q 1839, Dartmouth, Devon, England , d. 28 Nov 1907, Totnes Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 68 years) Married 6 Apr 1859 St. Petrox Church, Dartmouth, Devon, England - GRO ref: Anderson, Ellen to Bellett, John q2 1859 Totnes RD 5b 295
Actual date and place from 'The Family Register' of John and Ellen - a sheet of paper listing their marriage and their children's births, also from PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 7 Sep 2018).
Whilst the information about John and Ellen on the marriage entry leave it ambiguous as to which John married Ellen (this one or his cousin born 1830 in Dartmouth), other evidence shows it was this John.
The marriage entry shows that he was aged 24 (fits this, not the other John), that his father was called John (fits the other, not this John), and his father was a labourer (good fit for neither, but I guess a fisherman might be regared as a labourer, but could suggest - as I now believe it does - not fit because the John was invented to hide illegitimacy).
Evidence it was this John: master and mates certs for this John show he lived in Dartmouth, overseas death index shows the birthplace of the John who died on 23 June 1878 as Kngsbridge, probate calendar entry shows the John who died on 23 June 1878 was the husband of Ellen.
Children8 children Last Modified 15 Nov 2022 Family ID F2119 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From DFHS CD