Edwards
Sarah Passmore Edwards
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Edwards family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Edwards, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records
From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.
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Origins of surname
This surname essentially means 'son of Edward'. The personal name, originally Eadward, consists of the elements ead ='prosperity or fortune' and weard ='guard'.
Early records
The name has been present in Jersey since the mid-18th century, and there are numerous Edwards families in the island today
Variations
- Edward
- Edwards
Family records
Church records
- Edwards baptisms in Jersey
- Edwards marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Edwards marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Edwards burials in Jersey
Family trees
This surname is a classic example of the rubbish which can be found in Ancestry family trees. A search for Edwards born in Jersey lists 39 trees, showing Isaac Edwards born in Jersey, Channel Islands on 25 February 1776, and dying in Ohio, US. Open any of the trees and they show that Isaac was the son of Capt John Edwards, of Essex, New Jersey, Isaac's siblings were all born in Essex, New Jersey, but Isaac was born in Essex, Jersey, Channel Islands. It is all too easy when entering a name into an Ancestry tree to choose the wrong Jersey. But it is also just as easy to check and correct such an error. But 38 other trees all with the same nonsense? Sadly so many Ancestry subscribers, particularly Americans desperate to find some family link to the British Isles, just blindly copy each other.
Great War service
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Family businesses
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Bertha Alfreda Edwards (1858-1909) -
Jane Sarah Smith, nee Edwards, Henry and Jane
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Family gravestones
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St Ouen's Parish Church cemetery
Tips
The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.
We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling
The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.
New records
Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form
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