Origins of surname
This is a medieval French surname. It appears to be occupational and to have the meaning of 'little barrel. Either it was a nickname for a barrel maker (barralier), or for a rounded person, one who was barrel shaped. This surname has sometimes been listed with the English surname Barrow, which has a totally different origin.
Early records
The name was brought to Jersey by Jacques Barreau, who married Marguerite Besnard at St Martin in 1748. All the Barreau birth and baptism records with one exception can be traced back to them. Pierre Barreau and Charlotte Garreau, both from France, were married in 1753, but do not appear to have had a family in Jersey. [1]
Variants
- Barreau, as far as we are aware this is the only form found in Jersey
- Barau
- Barrau
- Baroux
- Barroux
- Baro/Barot - found in some records for the Barreau family and corrected in our database
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Barreau baptisms in Jersey
- Barreau marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Barreau marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Barreau burials in Jersey
Biographies
- Arthur Hamptonne Barreau, artist
Great War service
- Arthur Hamptonne Barreau (1879-1922) (St H) son of Francis Hamptonne Barreau and Eleanor Darley, Sergeant, Hampshire Regiment
Family wills
Burial records
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Notes and references
- ↑ A Barreau researcher has sent us the following: Alexandre Barraud/Barrauh de la Lardiere, a refugee from Bas Poitou, was in Jersey in 1705, acting as godfather to Aimee Benigne Bremaud in April, leaving a will dated 5 November 5 and being buried on 11 November in St Helier. This man was claimed by one of Jacques descendants, Francois/Francis Hamptonne Barreau, as an ancestor (though I have not found any evidence to prove this). But even he was not the first of this name on the island. His elder brother Louis had previously fled France and arrived in Jersey in 1687, where he and his wife had to abjure Catholicism (that they had been forced to adopt on 6 February 1686 in Talmont, Vendee, following the Edict of Nantes), on 19 November 1687 in St Helier. They then moved on to England.