Bois burial records 1820-1978

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Bois burial records
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The records of Jersey's seven major undertakers from 1820 to the late 1970s are held by Jersey Archive and have been digitised and indexed by archive staff and volunteers. We previously provided family page listings of the records of Croad's, a single business, but have now combined all the records into a single new index and are progressively updating the lists in our family pages. The full records are available to subscribers to the Archive's online service. The entries within the volumes give vital family history information such as the name and age of the person buried, their immediate relations, the place and date of death, as well as place of burial - cemetery, location of grave and even the coffin's depth. Some records also give details of the deceased's occupation or public positions held.

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The first records, from 1867, in the Croad Livre de Remarques


The books can be viewed on line or downloaded. Each set for each undertaker has an index which subscribers can view online or download.

It can be a lengthy process searching for records because there are separate indexes for each funeral director and most do not give a date of burial. This means that several volumes may have to be accessed when searching for details of an ancestor's burial. Although the Archive website has a search facility which allows a search for individual names, the results can include all manner of other records in their catalogue and, unless the exact spelling of a name is known, the required record will not be found.

Jerripedia has not only created a full A-Z index for all 66,000-plus records, with the year of burial included for the benefit of our users who have an Archive subscription, but we are adding indexes of records, such as this one, for individual families included in our 1,200-plus family pages, which include all the island's most important families.

This link is to the Archive website page containing links to the seven sets of records. The page will open for everybody but only subscribers will be able to view the records

Some records use page numbers and sequential record numbering. Most of the Archive indexes do not include dates. All our indexes and lists give dates, and having identified the undertaker and date of funeral from this listing you can then easily find the volume containing the record.

The Archive indexes contain some very unusual spellings for common Jersey surnames. We are cross-checking these with the images of the undertaker's books and finding that most are errors of transcription, which can be corrected for our index, although the process of checking against the books is very time-consuming. Some of the handwriting in the books is very difficult to read, and there may also be errors in the entries. We are correcting names when we are entirely satisfied that a common surname has been wrongly entered or transcribed. Variations of common names which may be correct are included at the end of family name indexes, and have been left in the full A-Z indexes.

Our advice is the same as it is with any other set of records included in Jerripedia. If you don't find an ancestor where you expect to, look for variations in spelling and, perhaps for names with or without prefixes, such as Le, La, L', de and du. Variations may appear next to records for names spelt in the standard form; they may also be some way out of sequence.

Please note that the work of updating all our family page burial lists to include all funeral directors is not yet complete, and some pages still link to an incomplete listing for a single business. Note also that there were other undertakers in business over the years whose records are not included in this collection. For families with a significant number of records we have created a separate page, but when there are only a few records the link may be to an A-Z index page, and you will need to scroll through the alphabetical listing to find the family you are interested in.

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Page number Record number Forenames Surname Maiden name Previous
married name
Associated names Notes Year
of burial
Funeral director
579 Ada Jane Bois 1882 Croad
365 Beatrice Elaine Bois 1947 Pitcher
206 Beatrice Marie Bois Le Blanc 1934 Sinatt
316 D Bois 1947 Pitcher
427,428 Francis John Bois 1924 Sinatt
219 George Bois 1930 Sinatt
88 George Walter Bois 1929 Sinatt
12965 Marie Françoise Bois Bois 1924 Croad
22078 Mary Ann Bois Croll 1958 Croad
12513 Mary Ann Bois 1870 Picot
8990 Peter Bois 1911 Croad
141 Philip Bois 1929 Sinatt
12516 Adele Aimee Dubois Le Lievre 1922 Croad
747 Adolphe Dubois 1883 Croad
51a Elie Charles Auguste Dubois 1946 Le Quesne
2152 Henri Adolphe Dubois 1888 Croad
6437 Jeanne Marie Dubois Bataille 1902 Croad
98 Josephine Dubois Martin 1939 Sinatt
66 Lilia Ann Dubois Coutanche 1976 Pitcher and Le Quesne
631 Marie Louise Dubois Lainé 1882 Croad
1912 Nancy Dubois Chevalier 1887 Croad
170 58 Nelly Melanie Marie Anne Dubois 1874 Croad
10325 Adolphus Chevalier Du Bois 1866 Picot
2445 Elizabeth Du Bois Langlois 1850 Picot
7388 Elize Blanche du Bois Gallienne 1905 Croad
1254 Jeanne du Bois 1885 Croad
334b Jessie Beatrice Du Bois Marett 1968 Le Quesne
7188 Ladislaus Alfred du Bois 1860 Picot
7a Louis Joseph Du Bois 1924 Le Quesne
250b Louisa Jane Du Bois Davies 1954 Le Quesne
17688 Louise du Bois Marion 1940 Croad
95a Marshall George Du Bois 1970 Le Quesne
12521 Mary Ann du Bois 1922 Croad
14434 Pauline Marie Augustine du Bois Le Greuzie 1929 Croad
10063 Sophie Tilly Du Bois 1914 Croad
113b Thomas Elie Sebastien du Bois 1952 Le Quesne
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