John Dumolo of Uttoxeter supplied the parish overseers with a range of goods and services including glass for the workhouse, lamp black, oil, putty, paint of various colours, solder, turps, lead, red lead and buckets. Charging for his labour, he repaired glazing (including window casements), pointing and leading, repainted when required and made several repairs to a pump (including a valve). Vouchers survive for Dumolo for the period 1826 to 1837. His last receipt for January 1837 gives a good flavour of the range of goods and services he provided over the years.
| Pint Black Paint, Pot & Tool | £0.1.0 |
| Pint of Oil | £0.0.7 |
| Pint of Lamp Black | £0.0.8 |
| 1 Pint Glue, 1 Pint Lamp Black | £0.1.4 |
| 1½ Pints Salmon Colour, Glue | £0.0.8½ |
| 5 Squares Crown | £0.1.10½ |
| 3 Squares Common | £0.1.1½ |
| 4½ Ft New Leaded | £0.2.½ |
| 12 Squares common | £0.4.6 |
| Repairing Valve to Pump | £0.2.6 |
| 1 Man ¾ day to do | £0.2.9 |
Although these amounts were not enormous, Dumolo’s contact with the parish overseers provided him with regular repeat business. He was also paid for repairs, including glass, to Doveridge workhouse. This is one of the few instances where we find a business getting work from more than one parish.
The Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices reveals that in 1796 plumbers Elizabeth and William Dumolo apprenticed Thomas Mollatt and in 1805 John and Elizabeth Dumolo apprenticed John Colclough.
Aside from business, John Dumolo and a Miss Dumolo each contributed £0-10-0 to the British and Foreign Bible Society (Uttoxeter Branch) and in June 1831 Dumolo declared his support for the parliamentary reform bill.
John Dumolo left an extensive will and appointed his friends Thomas Woolrich, surgeon and druggist; William Smith, saddler; and William Smith mercer and draper, as trustees.
Whilst John Dumolo made provision for a number of his relatives, it was not an equal division. Perhaps he had already made some in-life gifts. The chief beneficiaries were Mary Ann Kimber and Edward Kimber, the children of his sister Ann. They were bequeathed his house in High Street, Uttoxeter together with the grates, cupboards, and other fixtures, with the shops, his five seats in the pew in the church, and his land at Uttoxeter Heath. Property in High Street in the occupation of hosier Joseph Roe went to Mary Ann Kimber
Rents and profits from part of his estate were to be used to provide annuities of £5 each to his sisters Ann Kimber and Elizabeth Salt. The stock-in-trade and working tools of his business were left in equal shares to Elizabeth Salt and Edward Kimber. If Elizabeth died before John Dumolo her husband Rupert Salt, should he be living, was to receive Elizabeth’s share of the stock and tools. The business itself was to be continued by his brother-in-law Rupert Salt and his nephew Edward Kimber in an equal partnership for their mutual benefit. John Dumolo’s household goods, furniture, plate, linen and china were bequeathed to Mary Ann Kimber for her own absolute use; his books, wine and other liquors were left to Mary Ann, Rupert and Edward in equal shares.
Dumolo’s money, securities and book debts, his farming stock, horse and other personal effects were to be gathered in where necessary, sold and disposed of to settle his debts and pay his funeral and probate expenses. Any residue was to be placed at interest on mortgages or securities. The income and dividends arising were to be divided equally between his two sisters. It is only after this provision that it becomes apparent that there were other relatives of John Dumolo. After their deaths income and dividends arising were to be divided between Rupert Salt, Mary Ann Kimber, nephews Thomas Kimber, William Kimber, William Dumolo, his nieces Blanche and Louisa Dumolo and grocer George James Kimber, the son of his nephew Thomas Kimber. No mention is made of the parents of the Dumolo nephews and nieces.
The last part of Dumolo’s will appears to be missing.
Sources
Derbyshire Record Office, D1197 A/PO 1492, Doveridge Overseers’ Vouchers, 29 April 1834–14 Feb 1835
The Ninth Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society (London: J. Tilling, 1813)
W. Parson and T. Bradshaw, Staffordshire General and Commercial Directory, (1818)
Pigot and Co., National Commercial Directory [Part 2: Nottinghamshire–Yorkshire and North Wales] for 1828–29 (London and Manchester: J. Pigot and Co., 1828)
William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire (Sheffield: 1834)
William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire (Sheffield: 1851)
Staffordshire Advertiser, June 1831
Staffordshire Record Office (SRO), D3891/6/32/19/4, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 2 Aug 1828
SRO, D3891/6/32/19/6, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 22 Sep 1826
SRO, D3891/6/33/3/010, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, Apr 1828–22 Apr 1829
SRO, D3891/6/34/11/005, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 18 May–9 Nov 1829
SRO, D3891/6/35/3/48, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 27 Jan 1831
SRO, D3891/6/37/10/34, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 12 Jan 1832
SRO, D3891/6/39/13/7, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 25 Jan 1833
SRO, D3891/6/40/10/21, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 25 Jan 1834
SRO, D3891/6/41/1/22, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 17 Jan 1835
SRO, D3891/6/44/54, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 2 Jan 1837
SRO, D3891/6/45/9/1p, Uttoxeter overseers’ vouchers, 21 Dec 1837
TNA, PROB11/1921, John Dumolo, 23 Jan 1840
TNA, IR1/36 and IR1/40, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices, 4 Feb 1795, 22 Jan 1805
This is a work in progress subject to change as new research is conducted.