San Francisco County
Biographies
ROBERT NOBLETT
ROBERT NOBLETT, deceased, was recently a member of the firm
of McCleverty & Noblett,
proprietors of the Fashion Stables, No 862 Broadway, Oakland. He was born at Pleasanton
Arms, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England,
December 19, 1822, a son of John and Ellen (Rigby) Noblett.
The father died about fifty-two years of age, and the mother at seventy, both
being of long lived ancestry, grandmother Noblett`s
years reaching 100.
Our
subject, Robert Noblett, left home when about sixteen
years of age, and became groom for Captain Plunkett, of the British army,
remaining with him for about two years; for the next eight years he was with
Captain Nesbitt, serving in Great Britain
and Ireland.
Then he came to America, and for the first year was private coachmen for Mr. Mounett at the New York Hotel; next he filled a similar
position a year at Washington for the Peruvian minister to the United States;
then one season with Milton S. Lapham, member of
Congress from California; and finally he came to this State with Senator Gwinn;
next he was interested with Charles McLaughlin, in his stage enterprise about
nine years, and lost money. In 1864 he came to Oakland
and first ran a stage from Oregon to San
Jose. In 1865 he took a contract for carrying the mail
from Oakland through Contra
Costa County
two years, while he was still interested with McLaughlin. In 1867 he formed a
partnership with Louis Beaudry, forming the firm Beaudry & Noblett, and ran
the Fashion Stable, at the present Location. Two years afterwards Mr. Beaudry sold out, and a new Company was formed under the
style of Holland, McCleverty & Noblett. A.
member of the firm died afterward, and other changes were made, and since 1873
the present proprietorship has been preserved.
Mr.
Noblett was first married in Ireland, in 1864, to
Miss Mary Casey, who was born about 1823, and they have one child living, John
,born in Ireland in 1847. Mr. Noblett was again
married in 1865, in San Francisco, to Margaret Boyle, a
native of Ireland, and by this
marriage there is one child, Edward Biddle Noblett,
born in Oakland in 1867, and now a
postal clerk.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 518, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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