1 Accredited Genealogist CM and AG ® are certification marks of the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen). Genealogists licensed by ICAPGen have met the competency standards of the organization. 2 Salt Lake City 6 th Ward Records, p. 24, Microfilm 26,658, Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, Utah. An alternate birthdate of Jan. 6, 1806, appears in the present Springville Cemetery sexton records, but it is in a different ink and appears to have been added later. A 1958 filming of the sexton’s records does not contain a birth date or place for Tobias. The origin of the Jan. 6 birthdate has not been determined. 3 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Society, Parish register printouts of Ilfracombe, Devon, England, christenings, 1567-1837, Microfilm 933,371, item 5, FHL, Salt Lake City, Utah. 4 1851-1871 census records of Ilfracombe (scanned images found on Ancestry.com) all list John as a sailmaker. 5 1851-1891 census records, Bristol/Bedminster (scanned images found on Ancestry.com) all list Thomas as a sailmaker or master sailmaker. 6 Kelly’s Directory of Bristol and Suburbs with Map 1926 (London: Kelly’s Directories Ltd., 1926), p. 507: Dallin Bros. & Son, sail mnfrs. 10 Narrow quay. Thomas was listed at this same address in 1880 in Slater’s Royal National Commercial Directory of Monmouthsire, Shropshire and the Cities of Bristol and Chester (Manchester : Isaac Slater, 1880), 41: Dallin, Thomas, sailmaker & ship chandler, 10 Narrow quay. 7 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Society, Parish register printouts of Ilfracombe, Devon, England, christenings, 1567-1837, Microfilm 933,371, item 5, FHL, Salt Lake City, Utah. The first entry for the surname is Judith Dallin, christened 9 Dec 1594, daughter of Frounces Dallin. ©Beth Davies, 69 W. 1080 N., American Fork, UT 84003. Permission is granted to photocopy for distribution to family members with copyright included. TOBIAS DALLIN--THE ENGLAND YEARS Beth Davies AG ®1 Tobias Dallin was born in Ilfracombe, Devonshire, England on Jan. 28, 1806, 2 and was christened in the Church of England at Ilfracombe on 23 Feb. 1806, the son of Tobias and Mary Dallin 3 His father was a sailmaker and Tobias and his brothers would follow that trade when they grew to manhood. His brother John remained in Ilfracombe. 4 His brother Thomas moved to Bristol 5 and members of Thomas’ family were engaged in the sail making trade as late as 1926. 6 This Tobias bore the name of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, all of whom had lived in Ilfracombe. The surname Dallin had been in the Church of England parish records of Ilfracombe since 1594 7 . Ilfracombe was a seaport and the sea dominated the life of its people. History of Ilfracombe by Lois Lamplugh gives these insights to the town near the time that Tobias was growing up: "During the 18th century the number of vessels owned at Ilfracombe increased fourfold, from 15 to 60, and the total tonnage increase from 350 to 1,615, figure which do not include the smallest fishing boats and the craft of the hobblers, the boatmen who towed ships into harbour and serviced them . . . During this century Ilfracombe had a number of open boats engaged in fishing, principally for herring, but it was necessarily a fluctuating trade; in years when shoals deserted the western coasts, the people of a port such as Ilfracombe knew hardship . . . Shipbuilding, it would seem, offered a steadier occupation than fishing. Between 1735 . . . and 1800, no fewer than 60 brigantines, sloops, schooners, smacks and skiffs were launched into the harbour . . . It was shipbuilding on a very limited scale, with on average two small ships leaving the yard each
