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- This could be Royal Navy Sea Captain RM mentioned. If so, the following 1881 census entry may apply:
Dwelling: 5 Herbert Street
Census Place: Stoke Damerel, Devon, England
Source: FHL Film 1341533 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2213 Folio 145 Page 43
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Richard MALLETT M 57 M Alvington, Devon, England Rel: Head Occ: Pensioner R N
Mary A. MALLETT M 60 F Shapwick, Devon, England Rel: Wife
It says he is from "Alvington" Devon. There is an Alvington, but it is in Gloucestershire, not Devon, so I assume they meant Alwington. There is only the one Mallett family in the Alwington parish register, and his birthdate makes him a fit with the family of William and Mary Lee. I can't explain why he's not in the parish register though, except to say that the registers we've seen through the LDS church are not the originals, and can have significant portions missing. I know from my own experience that I found my family in the actual registers in Barnstaple (when I was there) for Frithelstock and Langtree, when these same families were completely missing
from the transcripts I received from Salt Lake City.
As per PS, in an email to RM dated July 12/00:
The information I have so far gathered is that he was born in Bideford, Devon, in 1823. During his career in the Royal Navy, he saved the lives of men in Singapore, Sumatra and the Baltic. In 1860, he left the Royal Navy and joined the coastguard service at Blatchington, Seaford, East Sussex, UK. When (no date) the brig called the Woodside was wrecked nearby, he saved the cabin boy. Two years later he saved the entire crew of the French schooner Jean Albert, and was promoted to Chief Boatman. In 1869, he again saved a crew, this time from the French brig Seraphine which had run aground in Seaford Bay. On this occasion, the cabin boy drowned despite persistent attempts to rescue him. For his bravery, Richard Mallett, received a gold medal from the French Government and a bronze medal from the Royal Humane Society. A quiet close just off the Promenade is named after him.
Notice the dates of birth (yours 1825 and mine 1823). Furthermore, mine left the Royal Navy in 1860 and yours married in Liverpool the following year. I wonder if there is a connection.
The following is posted under Seaford Shipwrecks at this site:
http://www.pavilion.co.uk/seaford/seafordheritage.
The coastguard in Seaford between 1860 and 1869 was named Mallett and he saved many lives in those ten years. On one occasion he entered the sea with a rope tied to his waist with a team of men on the beach paying it out. A public collection was made in recognition of this act of bravery. In recent times, the name has been commemorated in Mallett Close, appropriately close to the Causeway.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7843796&queryType=1&resultcount=29
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey
Name: Mallett, Richard
Place of Birth: Alwington, Devon
Continuous Service Number: 2739
Date of Volunteering: 01 August 1853
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies.
[Not sure above is actually for this Richard - but timing works]
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