Touzel

Touzel family page

This family name, originally given to someone
who wore his hair short, has been present in Jersey
in one form or another since the 14th century

Clifford Touzel, with his wife Ada Rose, nee Moon

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Touzel family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Touzel, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

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

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.

A--B--C--D--E--F--G--H--I--J--K--L--M--N--O--P--Q--R--S--T--U--V--W--X--Y--Z

If you can help with information about the Touzel family, please contact editorial@jerripedia.org, using Jerripedia as the subject of your email. We are particularly interested in information which will help create further family trees, family histories and photographs

A blue link anywhere in the text will lead you to another page with more information on this family

Arms of Joshua John Le Touzel

Origin of Surname

This surname is derived from Old French and referred to someone who wore his hair short or tousled. It comes from the old French tondé.

However, it might also translate as 'the stripling'.

Early records

Baptismal records for Touzel date back to the earliest surviving registers, mostly in the latter part of the 16th century. Guillemyn Touzel of St Clement fatures in the 1528 Extente. The name had certainly been present in one form or another for perhaps 200 or more years previously.

Although Touzels are not as numerous in Jersey as they once were - only 16 families are listed in the 2011 telephone directory - the family has spread throughout the world, most notably in Australia and Canada. Touzels were involved in Jersey's maritime trade and the Canadian seaboard cod fishing industry.

The censuses from 1841 to 1911 show that Touzel numbers were at their highest in Jersey during the 19th century, peaking at 167 in 1861 and falling to 132 by 1911.

Variants

• Touzel, 1668
• Touseill 1617
• Touzell 1607
• Tousell
• Touzet, French variant
• Touzé, French variant
• Le Touzé, French variant
• de Touzel 1402
• Tousel 1309
• Le Touzel
• Le Touzey

Family records

Church records

Tips for using these links

These searches will also find Le Touzel

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

Family trees

• Philippe Touzel: 18th-20th centuries
• George Touzel: 16th-20th centuries
• Guillemin Touzel: 15th-18th centuries
• Jean Touzel: 17th-18th centuries
• Thomas Touzel: 18th-20th centuries
• Thomas Touzel 2: 17th-20th centuries
• Jean Touzel 2: 17th-20th centuries
• Jean Le Touzel: 17th-19th centuries

Family histories and biographies

• Captain Touzel
• Edouard Touzel
• General Helier Touzel
• The Bertrams of Massachusetts visit their Perchard, Touzel and Guiton relatives in Jersey
• Sylvestra Le Touzel

The family has given to the Island, prior to 1900, three constables, two of whom lived during the 18th century in the family`s parish of origin, St Clement, and the third in Grouville. Members of the family have been numbered among the clergy, Sire Guille Touzel of St Clement having been a priest in 1537-1543; the Rev Helier Touzel (1808-1888), a Rector of Martyrs Worthy and Bramdean, both in Hampshire, and the Rev John Charles Cliff Touzel (1855-1899), having been Curate of Coventry before becoming Rector of Heswell, Cheshire, 1880-1885.

Several Touzels have served as officers of the Jersey Militia, two of whom were colonels and one a lieutenant-colonel, and at least three were officers in the Regular Army. The most distinguished of these was General Helier Touzel, whose biography is linked above. He added to an impressive military career by holding the offices of HM Receiver-General and Lieut-Governor of Jersey.

Great War service

• Touzel family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

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

Burial records

• Touzel burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• D’Hautrée

• 
  In 1830 Philippe Touzel and his wife Rachel, nee Monnamy, advertised for sale houses and land which had belonged to their late son Thomas in Rue de Samares, St Clement
• 
  Thomas Jean Touzel announced the sale of his Colomberie house inChronique de Jersey in 1840
• 
  Philippe Touzel advertised his house and land at Ville-es-Renauds, Grouville in Chronique de Jersey in 1840. The 16 vergees of best farmland were half planted with apple orchards
• 
  John Touzel’s Grouville house, with a well stocked garden, was available to rent in 1832

Family businesses

Staff outside the long-lasting animal food family business in Halkett Place

• Thomas Le Touzel and his wife Nancy were grocers at 17 Halkett Place in the 1850s

• 
  Capt Thomas Touzel's 35-ton cutter Harmony was advertised for sale in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1803
• 
• 
• 
  Touzel's in Halkett Place in 1886. This is one of the town of St Helier's longest established businesses, still trading today, albeit now renamed Animal Kingdom, after being sold in the early 21st century by the last Touzel owner
• 
  1946
• 
  1946
• 
  1927
• 
  Upholsterers Francis and Jane Touzel were in business in ‘Old Post Office Street’ (Hue Street) in 1828
• 
  Francois Touzel, living at Elie Le Vesconte's house, advertised a sale of goods in Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1798

Family album

A Touzel family outing - we have no further details

• 
  Col J J Touzel
• 
  E T Touzel
• 
  E T Touzel
• 
  John Elias Touzel (1864-1915) (St C) son of Philip and Eliza, married Louisa Arthur
• 
  John Elias Touzel
• 
  Lifeboatman Edward 'Nobby' Touzel
• 
  Edward `Nobby` Touzel, in later years
• 
  Philip Touzel
• 
  Philip John Rondel and his wife, Marie Louise Touzel (1868- ) (St Mt), daughter of Philip (1834- ) and Julie Mourant
• 
  Ernest Rolland Touzel (1892-1917) son of Francois and Sarah
• 
  James Henry Thomson (1834-1919) and Ann Henriette, nee Touzel (1843-1929)
• 
  Francois Gilles Touzel (1841-1922)and his second wife Sarah Maria, nee Carter (1863-1945)
• 
• 
  Ann Mary Bankard, nee Touzel (1850-1916)
• 
  Connie Touzel, a champion diver in the 1920s. Born in St Helier in 1898, Connie was the daughter of George Touzel and Eleanor Mary, nee Le Sueur
• 
  Champion diver Connie Le Caudey, nee Touzel
• 
  Julie Touzel, nee Mourant, born in St Martin in 1835, the daughter of Philip (1796- ) and Elizabeth, nee Le Sueur (1801- ). She married Captain Philippe Touzel (1834- ) and they had two children
• 
  Jane Bree, nee Touzel
• 
  Esther Jane Gaudin, nee Touzel. She married Elie Gaudin in Grouville in 1872
• 
  Elise Esther Alexander, nee Touzel
• 
  Elise Esther Alexander, nee Touzel
• 
  Alma Touzel
• 
  Gwen Touzel, 1946
• 
  Olga Touzel
• 
  Anthea Beatrice Touzel (1925-1978)
• 
  John Filleul Touzel (1865-1950) and Louise Marguerite, nee Cabot
• 
  Ann Henriette Touzel (1845-1929)
• 
  Stewart Touzel (1903-1964), Montreal 1921

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

• 
  Almorah cemetery
• 
  Almorah cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
• 
  St Peter parish cemetery
• 
  Surville Cemetery
• 
  St Brelade Church cemetery
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  St Lawrence
• 
  The grave of Great War casualty Ernest Rolland Touzel (1892-1917) at Bapaume Australian Cemetery
• 
  The grave of Great War casualty Osmand Touzel at Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium
• 
  The grave of Great War casualty Sydney Alfred Touzel at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais

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

A--B--C--D--E--F--G--H--I--J--K--L--M--N--O--P--Q--R--S--T--U--V--W--X--Y--Z