Rive

Rive family page

An unknown Mrs Rive photographed by Ernest Baudoux in the 19th century

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Rive family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Rive, 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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Origin of Surname

The name originates from the Latin word ripa meaning a river bank, or possibly a plateau by a river or from places of the same name. As a surname it originally denoted someone who lived at such a place. The French for a river bank is rive. However, the name in Jersey may not have originated in France, but in England. The earliest records, as indicated in Descendants of Thomas Rive say that Thomas Rive was un soldat anglais - 'an English soldier' - so Rive is probably a phonetic attempt to spell Reeve, which comes from the Anglo Saxon, meaning a manorial steward.

Early records

The first Rive baptism is found in the St Peter register in 1652, and until the 19th century, the family lived largely in this parish and neighbouring St Ouen and St Brelade. There was also a small branch in St Helier.

Variants

• Rive
• Rives
• Larive
• Delarive
• Rivelon

Family records

Family trees

• Thomas Rive: 17th-20th centuries
• Thomas Rive 2: 17th-20th centuries

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Rive baptisms in Jersey
• Rive marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Rive marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Rive burials in Jersey

Newspaper records

• Elias Rive appointed St Helier Roads Inspector in 1848

Great War service

• Rive family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Rive family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Rive burial records 1820-1978

Emigrant to Canada

• Philip Rive's petition for land in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Family businesses

A G Rive, baker and confectioner, started out at 1 Old St John's Road, before moving into the centre of St Helier at 35 Queen Street

• Baking during the Occupation, the trials and tribulations of Sydney Rive's David Place bakery, as told by his son

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  Rive baker's van
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  Philip E Rive advertised welsh slate from his Rouge Bouillon yard in Chronique de Jersey in 1850
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  The sale on behalf of his creditors of the assets of Thomas Rive, including a number of houses and other properties, was announced in Chronique de Jersey in 1860

The Rive family quarry provided stone for the construction of Victoria Avenue

Family album

Edward Rive, born in Jersey in 1872, worked at this store in Owen Sound, Ontario after emigrating. He was the son of Elias and Mary, nee Cochrane. He married Harriet Amelia Moore in 1900

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  Mary Ann Rive, born in St Brelade in 1873, daughter of Philip (1835-1888) and Marguerite, nee Thoreau (1836-1884). After their deaths she emigrated to the USA in 1893 and married Nelson Bishop in Colorado in 1897. She is pictured with her five children
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  Louisa Mary Rive (1875-1958), daughter of Elias (1838-1925) and Mary (1818-1910)
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  Ada Pauline Rive (1880-1943) daughter of Philip (1835-1888) and Marguerite, nee Thoreau (1836-1884), moved to Osceola, Iowa, in 1888 after the death of her parents and married John Carnahan Mongar (1873-1960) in 1900
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  Sisters Jane Harriet and Ada Pauline Rive in the USA
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  Philip Alfred Rive (1870-1941) with his mother Marguerite
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  Edward Rive, photographed in Jersey before he left for Canada
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  Ernest Philip Rive (1881-1952) with fishing companion Poppy Shenton at St Aubin. He was the son of Elias and Mary, nee Cochrane, brother of Edward and he married Hilda Maud Le Neveu (1999-1964) in 1909
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  Lyndon Rive and family with their Austin 7 in 1933
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  Sisters Mary Ann (1873-1919) and Ada Pauline Rive
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  Stanley Francis Lecomte (1899-1977) and Amelia Sophia, nee Rive
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  Nelson Bishop (1875-1910) and Mary Ann, nee Rive
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  Amelia Sophia Rive (1871-1944)

Rive businesses span the globe. Here is an historical picture of a family store in Masterton, New Zealand. It was run by Philip Alfred Rive, born in St Helier in 1853, the son of Elias and Anne, nee Kingston. He emigrated to New Zealand where he married Annie Elizabeth Luxford in 1880. She died in 1884 after giving birth to twins, who also died, leaving Philip with three living children aged between 1 and 3. Two years later he married Annie's younger sister Eliza, who had five children with Philip

Family gravestones

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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Les Quennevais cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Peter parish cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  St Brelade 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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