Origin of Surname
Le Rossignol, the nightingale, may have been a sweet singer, or only a chatterer; for rossignolerie in old French meant chattering.
Early records
The name does not appear in the Extentes and Assize Rolls of the 13-16th Centuries but the family has been extremely well researched and an extensive tree (see below) can be traced back to Guillaume Le Rossignol in 1500
Variants
- Le Rossignol, 1668
- Rossignoll 1607
- Rossignol
Family records
Family trees in Jersey
- Descendants of Guillaume Le Rossignol (1500)
- Descendants of Guillaume Le Rossignol A version of the above from a different source with different branches
- Descendants of Helier Le Rossignol (1530)
- Descendants of Thomas Le Rossignol (1737)
- Descendants of Augustin Le Rossignol (1564)
- Descendants of Nicolas Le Rossignol
Church records
- Le Rossignol baptisms in Jersey
- Le Rossignol marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Le Rossignol marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Le Rossignol burials in Jersey
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- Les Arbres, St Lawrence
- Belle Vue, St Aubin
- Chestnut Lea, St Helier
- No 4 Beresford Street: Tobacconist Henry Le Rossignol and his family lived here from 1914 onwards
Family album
Miss Le Rossignol photographed by Ernest Baudoux
And a card sent at Christmas 1903 to Miss V Le Rossignol, in St Saviour's Road. This was Violet, daughter of Philip (1835- ) and Matilda, nee Pearson (1842- ), who were married in Grouville in 1861 and had a total of ten children. Her father had died by 1901 and she was living with her widowed mother at 24 St Saviour's Road with her older sister Alice, older brother Lewis, and younger sisters Dorothy and Marjorie
Family businesses
- Frank Helier Le Rossignol was a draper at 43 King Street in the 1880s, and at 2 Broad Street
- Shoemaker Thomas Le Rossignol was at 24 Queen Street in the 1850s
Family gravestones
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