Barry burial records 1820-1978

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Barry burial records

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.


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.

  • Burial records: Our main index to undertakers' registers, cemetery records and gravestone images
Page number Record number Forenames Surname Maiden name Previous
married name
Associated names Notes Year
of burial
Funeral director
19933 Ann Barry 1949 Croad
357 - 358 15 Ann Barry Fennell 08/03/1877 Sinatt
153 Anne Barry Cullinane 1917 Sinatt
21a Christine Elizabeth Barry Forward Hayes 1960 Le Quesne
33a Dennis Egerton Barry 1969 Pitcher
102 Desmond Dashwood Barry 1953 Pitcher
7614 Florence Agnes Barry 1906 Croad
465 Frederick Charles Barry 30/05/1853 Sinatt
11706 Honora Barry 1868 Picot
265&266 Isabella Sophia Barry 26/05/1892 Sinatt
11513 James Barry 1868 Picot
103b James Barry 1939 Le Quesne
5620 John Barry 1857 Picot
9271 John Barry Infant 1864 Picot
9897 John Barry 1865 Picot
2423 John Almond Barry 1850 Picot
14638 John Radley Barry 1929 Croad
425 16799 Joseph Barry 1937 Croad
495 17070 Joseph John Barry 1938 Croad
14347 Kenneth Barry 1929 Croad
5450 Linnington Adelaide Barry Infant 1857 Picot
6596 Male Infant Barry Stillborn son of Thomas and Ann Feunell 1859 Picot
95 106 Margaret Barry Maher 1904 Sinatt
11098 Margaret Barry 1867 Picot
12960 Margaret Barry 1872 Picot
9407 Martha Barry Alexandre 1865 Picot
Martha Elizabeth Barry Bishop 19/03/1936 Conery
414 and 415 Mary Barry 1890 Sinatt
5858 Mary Ann Barry 1857 Picot
21232 Maud Blanche Madeleine Barry McKenna 1955 Croad
118a Maureen Barry 1953 Pitcher
20201 Maureen Barry Comyn 1951 Croad
Michael Barry 28/03/1938 Conery
243&244 Patrick Barry 16/04/1892 Sinatt
154b Phyllis Grace Barry Matson 1961 Le Quesne
9463 Rebecca Mary Ann Barry Daughter of 9407 1865 Picot
4922 Sarah Barry Barry 1855 Picot
638 Susan Ann Barry Father William 1848 Picot
111&112 Thomas Barry 26/09/1891 Sinatt
Thomas Barry 19/04/1939 Conery
21658 Violet Gwendoline Prettyman Barry Darby 1957 Croad
499&500 William Barry 21/08/1893 Sinatt