Origins of surname
This surname was given to an inhabitant of a tiny hamlet of the same name in Dorset, named as the farm of someone called Guppa.
Early records
Although there is a Guppy marriage on record in St Brelade in 1753, it was not until 1839 that a family became established and baptism records started to appear in the St Helier register.
Variants
- Guppie
- Guppy
- Guppey
- Goupy
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Guppy baptisms in Jersey
- Guppy marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Guppy marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Guppy burials in Jersey
Great War service
- Albert Edward Ennis Guppy (1885-1917) son of James and Sarah, husband of Emily, nee Cabot, Corporal, London Irish Rifles, killed in action
- John Sydney Guppy (1890-1915) (Jer), son of George James and Harriet Louisa, of Guernsey, killed in action in Turkey
- Daniel Forester Guppy (1882- ) (St H) son of James George and Sarah Jane Ennis, Petty Officer RN, HMS Vivien
- Thomas George Guppy (St H), Private, Middlesex Regiment, no Jersey records
Occupation records
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Guppy family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page
- Andrew Guppy of 15 Grove Place - 31 March 1898, D/Y/A/57
- John Guppy of East Cocker, Somerset, now of St Helier, bequeaths to Joseph Guppy and George Guppy, a house bordering on Hilary Street, St Helier, and to the poor of St Helier, 5s 15 February 1854 - D/Y/A/28
- John Guppy, St Helier - 12 September 1912, D/Y/A/71
- Louisa Guppy, wife of Philip John Hamon, Harod House, First Tower, St Helier - 11 June 1927, D/Y/A/87
- François Goupy - 3 March 1939, D/Y/A/104
- Margueritte Goupy, widow of George Le Gros of St Helier 1729 - D/Y/A/6
Burial records
Family album
Iris Mary Guppy (1884-1967) [1]
Rogues' gallery
Family gravestones
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The grave of Great War casualty Cpl Albert Edward Ennis Guppy at Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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Notes and references
- ↑ Several online trees show Iris as Goupy, the daughter of French national Francois, but the record of her 1904 marriage in St Helier to Robert Lindsay, who was killed at the Somme in 1918, shows her clearly as Guppy, the daughter of farmer Jules Guppy, born in St Peter