Francis Jollie ( 1791 - 1826 )

Born

1791

Died

1826

Parents

Francis and ????

Married

1813. Margaret Routledge

Children

John, William, Francis, Edward and Elizabeth

Born in Carlisle, he inherited the newspaper that his father had started, the Carlisle Journal. In 1813 he married Margaret Routledge by licence. The register reads:

    Francis Jollie junior of the parish of Penrith, bachelor, and 
    Margaret Routledge of this parish, spinster, a minor,
    were married by Licence with Consent of Parents this
    23 August 1813. (Both sign). In the presence of
    John Jollie, John Routledge. (Both sign)
    

Francis ran the printing and publishing side of the Journal with his brother James, and their other brother, Jeremiah, was the editor. After the death of his father, the founder, together with other changes in the Jollie family, it was necessary to bring in someone from outside. In 1825 James Steel who had started his working life as a printer's apprentice was brought into the firm starting what was to become a long lasting connection of the Steel family with the paper. Francis Jollie (jnr) died at the age of thirty-six, leaving Margaret his widow with a family of four boys and a girl.