Stokes

Stokes family page

Ellen Hill Stokes was born in India in 1868, daughter of the Rev William Stokes and Mary Ann, nee Hill. She married German blacksmith Hermann Bretschneider in Tamil Nadu in 1893 and divorced him in 1920, reverting to her maiden name. She completed a midwifery course in Basel, Switzerland in 1911 and went to England with Harry, leaving her middle son Dickie behind. She lived in the USA from 1925 to 1933, then something brought her to Jersey, where she lived through the Occupation, at various addresses, claiming to be a widow, born in Bath in 1874, and not mentioning her German husband. She had a bad fall in 1944 and broke her leg. She died in Jersey in 1950 and was buried in St Saviour's Cemetery. Son Harry, a Major in the Army, died in Tunisia in 1943

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Origins of surname

This is a name derived from the old English stocc, meaning stock or trunk of a tree, so it would have been applied to someone who lived near an area of stump clearings, or in a place so named.

Early records

The first recording of this family name in Jersey is the baptism of James Stokes, son of Charles and Isabell Wilson, in St Helier in 1770. There is then a gap of over 40 years before the next baptism, and the family becomes steadily established during the 19th century and into the 20th.

Variants

• Stoke
• Stokes

Family records

Family trees

• William Bailly Stokes: 19th-20th centuries
• Robert Day Stokes: 19th-20th centuries

Church records

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

Great War service

• William Thomas Stokes (1884-1915) son of Charles and Elizabeth, husband of Laura Emily, Able Seaman RN, HMS Viknor, drowned
• Arthur Frederick Stokes (1884-1945) (St S) son of Charles and Elizabeth, Shipwright RN, HMS Victory II

• Gosworth Clement Stokes (1866- ) (St H) son of Charles and Elizabeth Branwell, husband of Adelaide Teale, Mercantile Marine
• Frederick Charles Stokes (1898- ) (St H) son of above, Private, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Stokes family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

• Stokes : Alfred Parker , Rozel Cottage, Rozel, - 07/Sep/1931 , 22/Jun/1935 , D/Y/A/97/106
• Stokes : Alice Jane , widow of Francis George Fauvel, of Cranworth, Vallee des Vaux, St Helier and formerly of Belcot, Marett Road, St Helier - 31/Aug/1968 , 21/Jul/1969 , D/Y/B1/134/42
• Stokes : Annie , widow of John Renouf, of Te Whare, Mont Millais - 17/Sep/1934 , 02/May/1962 , D/Y/B1/69/11
• Stokes : Arthur Frederick , The Hollies, St Marys Hill - 22/Jul/1939 , 26/Oct/1945 , D/Y/A/114/119
• Stokes : Catherine Elizabeth , wife of John Hyne, of Hynden, La Longue Rue, St Martin - 05/May/1966 , 05/May/1966 , D/Y/B1/97/30
• Stokes : Elizabeth Ann , of Patchett Lodge, Holbeach, Lincolnshire - 13/Jul/1965 , 22/Jun/1966 , D/Y/B1/98/37
• Stokes : Ellen , widow of Edward Philip Jutsum Le Sauteur, of Sandybrook Hospital, St Peter and formerly of Ellendale, Dunell Road, St Saviour - 09/Nov/1945 , 14/Feb/1975 , D/Y/B1/218/12
• Stokes : Gosworth Clement , 17 Garden Lane, St Helier - 28/Mar/1930 , 23/Apr/1931 , D/Y/A/91/85
• Stokes : Harold Clements , son of Clement Gosworth, of 1, Le Fauxbie Villas, St Saviour's Road, St Helier - 02/Jul/1955 , 04/Sep/1967 , D/Y/B1/111/15
• Stokes : Isaac Westley , Cottisloe, St Brelade, late Deputy Traffic Manager, GIP Railway, Bombay 8/10/1927 Bequeaths to Jennie Catherine Stokes the property Cottisloe; to Leonore Joyce the cup "The Highflyer" presented to HMS Highflyer and won by her mother - Unknown date , 26/May/1939 , D/Y/A/104/131
• Stokes : Sarah Lizzie , Whitby, York - 21/Dec/1926 , 22/Nov/1937 , D/Y/A/101/94
• Stokes : Stanley Pearson , Darnholme, Bagatelle Road, retired school master - 07/Aug/1937 , 01/May/1940 , D/Y/A/106/107
• Stokes : Thomas John , Her Majestys York & Lancaster Regiment - 11/Nov/1886 , 26/Mar/1919 , D/Y/A/79/37
• Stokes : William Frederick , of 27, Val Plaisant, St Helier, Fief of Meleches 03/11/1891 Bequeaths to Robert Farrant and Maria Sophia Stokes the property 29, Val Plaisant, to Emily Grace Dawson the property 8, Parade Road, St Helier, Fief of Meleches - Unknown date , 24/Jan/1898 , D/Y/A/57/6

Burial records

• Stokes burial records 1820-1978

Occupation curfew cards

Curfew pass issued to Harold Stokes during the Occupation as a member of the St Saviour Honorary Police

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Family photographs

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  Ellen Stokes with her husband and son
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  Ellen Bretschneider, nee Stokes, with her family in India in 1899
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  Ellen Stokes, who became a midwife in later life and moved to Jersey
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  Ellen Hill Stokes and Harry
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  Ellen Hill Stokes (1968-1950) with sons William and Dickie Bretschneider
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  Ellen Stokes and family in India
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  Ellen Stokes, Harry and William

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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