Joseph Malaby DENT

1849 - 1926  (76 years)

• Name	Joseph Malaby DENT
  Birth	30 Aug 1849	Darlington, Co. Durham   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8CC97AAD5E1D44A3BD327D67D627C572E506
  Death	9 May 1926	Croydon RD   [2]
  Notes	From Who's Who: Left Darlington for London at the age of 17 to finish apprenticeship in book-binding and printing; began business as a book-binder, 1872; commenced publishing in 1888, and had great delight in the production of the Temple Shakespeare, Temple Classics, Everyman's Library, the Collection Gallia, the King's Treasuries, complete editions of the Works of W. H. Hudson and Joseph Conrad, etc See Wikipedia for more details. 1871 census: at 26 Clifton Street North, St Leonard Shoreditch, London (both DENT), Joseph Malaby (21, bookbinder forwarder, born Darlington, Durham) and Hannah (29, waistcoat maker, born Bethnal Green, London). 1881 census: at 28 New North Road, Hoxton, Shoreditch, London (all DENT), Joseph M (31, bookbinder, born Darlington, Durham), Annie (sic) (39, born Hackney, London), George W (8, scholar, born Hoxton), Hugh R (7, scholar, born Hoxton), Harry J, (5, scholar, born Hoxton) and Eliza (2, born Hoxton). Also Eliza WIGGINS (sister-in-law, unmarried, 41, milliner, born Hackney). 1891 census: at 117 Windsor Road, East Ham, London (all DENT), Joseph M (41, bookbinder, born Darlington, Durham), [second wife] Alexandra C (26, born Scotland), George W (18, bookbinders apprentice, born London), Hugh R (17, bookbinders clerk, born London), Harry J, 15, apprentice to photo etcher, born London), Annie E (12, scholar, born London) and Paxton M (5 months, born London). Also Eliza WIGGINS (sister-in-law, unmarried, 51, dress maker, born London) and Sara ELLIS (visitor, single, 35, trained nurse, born Manchester). 1901 census: at Salway Lodge, Salway Hill, Woodford, Essex (all DENT), "Head of family away", Alexandra C (36, born Scotland), Hugh R (27, publishers manager, born Hoxton, London), Paxton M (10, born Hoxton, London), Austen C (8, born Forest Gate, London), Muriel B (6, born Forest Gate, London), Olive J (4, born Forest Gate, London), Alexandra L (2, born Woodford, Essex). Also Eliza WIGGINS (sister-in-law, unmarried, 61, born Hackney, London), George F ROWELL (visitor, 32, married, letterpress printer, born Islington, London) and Caroline E ROWELL (visitor, married, 30, born Greenwich, London). 1911 census (found at Ancestry under mcdent, correction submitted), at Hill Lodege, Enfield, Middlesex (all DENT), Joseph M (head, 61, married, publisher, employer, born Darlington), Alexandra C (wife, 46, married 22 years, 6 children all living, born Markinch, Fifeshire), Paxton M (son 20, single, student at Oxford, born Hoxton, London), Austen C (son, 18, single, student at Cambridge, born Forest Gate, London), Olive Isabel (14, school, born Forest Gate, London), Alexandra L (daughter, 12, school, born Woodford, Essex) and Ursula M (daughter, 9, school, born Woodford, Essex). Also Eliza WIGGINS (boarder, unmarried, 71, born London), Jean FINLAYSON (visitor, 35, single, governess, born Southampton), Alice R DICKERSON (29, single, cook, born Sawton, Cambridge), Elizabeth RAUALL (30, single, parlourmaid, born Enfield, Middlesex) and Phoebe GRAVES (26, single, housemaid, born Cranworth, Norfolk).
  Person ID	I363	Ipswich, Suffolk
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	George DENT,   b. Abt 1810, Darlington, Co. Durham d. 22 May 1878, Darlington, Co. Durham (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Isabella RAILTON,   b. 22 Nov 1808, Staindrop, Co. Durham d. 24 Oct 1869, Darlington, Co. Durham (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Jun 1843	Darlington, Co. Durham   [3]
  Family ID	F133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah WIGGINS,   b. Sep 1841, Bethnal Green, London d. Dec 1887, Shoreditch RD (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1870	Islington RD   [4]
  Children	1. George William DENT,   b. 21 Jun 1872, Hoxton, London d. Yes, date unknown   2. Hugh Railton DENT,   b. Jun 1874, Hoxton, London d. Yes, date unknown   3. Harry John DENT,   b. Sep 1875, Hoxton, London d. Jun 1927, Hitchin RD (Age 51 years)   4. Annie Eliza DENT,   b. Jun 1879, Hoxton, London d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Alexandra Campbell MAIN,   b. Abt 1864, Markinch, Fifeshire, Scotland d. Dec 1944, Chanctonbury RD (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	13 Apr 1889	St Lawrence Jewry, London   [5, 6]
  	Joseph Malaby Dent, full age, widower, bookseller of 28 New North Road, father George Dent, prfessor of music. Alexandra Campbell Main, full age, spinster of same address, father Thomas B---- Main, deceased. Both signed full names. Witnesses Arthur --- Storrow, Mary Main, Anne Burnett Main.
  Children	1. Paxton Malaby DENT,   b. Dec 1890, Hoxton, London d. 28 Apr 1915, France, WW1 (Age 24 years)   2. Austen Campbell DENT,   b. Sep 1892, Forest Gate, London d. Yes, date unknown   3. Muriel Burnett DENT,   b. Sep 1894, Forest Gate, London d. Yes, date unknown   4. Olive Isabel DENT,   b. Sep 1896, Forest Gate, London d. Yes, date unknown   5. Alexandra Louise DENT,   b. Sep 1898, Woodford, Essex d. Yes, date unknown   6. Ursula Mary DENT,   b. 16 Aug 1901, Woodford, Essex d. 21 Sep 1990, Nazareth Lodge, Penny Street, Sturminster Newton, Dorset (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F134	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2013

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] BMD index, Q3 1849 Darlington 24/61. (Reliability: 3). [S3] BMD index, aged 76, Q2 1926 Croydon 2a/326. (Reliability: 3). [S3] BMD index, Q2 1843 Darlington 24/41. (Reliability: 3). [S3] BMD index, Q4 1870 Islington 1b/527. (Reliability: 3). [S3] BMD index, Q2 1889 London C 1c/49. (Reliability: 3). [S24] London Metropolitan Archives at Ancestry.co.uk, October 2009 and later.