Le Ruez burial records 1820-1978

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Le Ruez 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
99b Ada Maud Le Ruez 1970 Le Quesne
60b Adolphus Simon Le Ruez 1969 Le Quesne
3855 Alfred Clarence Le Ruez 1893 Croad
17314 Alfred Slous Le Ruez 1939 Croad
3325 Alfred Sydney Le Ruez 1892 Croad
2151 Beatrice May Le Ruez 1888 Croad
3430 Douglas Wilfred Le Ruez 1892 Croad
59a Eliza Maria Le Ruez Le Ruez 1965 Le Quesne
12991 Eliza Susanna Le Ruez Romeril 1924 Croad
111 83 Elizabeth Le Ruez De Garis 1914 Sinatt
4610 Elizabeth Le Ruez 1896 Croad
54b Esther Le Ruez Nicolle 1915 Le Quesne
21784 Hilda Laura Louisa Le Ruez Le Quesne Varney 1957 Croad
129a Hilda Louisa Le Ruez née Hotton 1973 Pitcher and Le Quesne
360 50 Jacques Le Ruez 1878 Croad
360 80 James Ernest Alfred Le Ruez 1873 Croad
20468 Jane Matilda Le Ruez Jean 1952 Croad
243a John Abraham Le Ruez 1959 Le Quesne
271a John Cyril Le Ruez 1973 Pitcher and Le Quesne
11668 John Philip Le Ruez 1919 Croad
10697 Louisa Le Ruez Luce 1916 Croad
3492 Mary Le Ruez Lucas 1892 Croad
85a Mary Adeline Le Ruez Gresille 1933 Le Quesne
85a Mary Adeline Le Ruez Gresille 1933 Le Quesne
9300 Mary Ann Jane Le Ruez Gruchy 1912 Croad
8283 Nellie Le Ruez 1908 Croad
6b Philip Le Ruez 1913 Le Quesne
11292 Philippe Le Ruez 1918 Croad
9763 Rowland John Le Ruez 1913 Croad
1429 Ruby Le Ruez 1885 Croad
11385 Susan Jane Le Ruez 1918 Croad
4770 Susanne Le Ruez Le Feuvre 1855 Picot
2829 Sydney Alfred Le Ruez 1890 Croad
4411 Wilfred Elie Le Ruez 1895 Croad
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