What's New?

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This page, which many Jerripedia users bookmark as their entry to the site, has been growing and growing since it was started.

To coincide with the launch of Jerripedia's enlarged index of church family records, we have reset the page, limiting direct links to additions to the site since the beginning of October 2012. But you will be able to find easy links to earlier additions by following the link to our 'What was new?' page, which retains the complete sequence of additions to the site back to July 2010.

You should also visit our new 'What’s coming?' page to discover the additions which are planned for the site over the coming weeks.

Please note the link in the left column to a page giving information on major updates across all the files in theislandwiki.

A further research visit to Jersey by Jerripedia editors has allowed us to collect a wealth of new material which will dramatically expand the family research section of the site as well as providing a large number of new articles on the general history of the island. Look at the Family tree index to find links to over 800 trees which are already on the site and will soon be joined by over 200 more.

And take a look at 'What’s coming?' to find a list of family histories and other family records which will soon be available, as well as an idea of the site sections which will be introduced or enlarged, and forthcoming articles on the history of Jersey.

And keep coming back to this page to see the transition from anticipated to actual new articles, which will be accompanied by hundreds of new pictures of Jersey taken between the middles of the 19th and 20th centuries.

What was new – a link to a list of articles added to the site from August 2010 to the end of April 2012
What’s coming? – a foretaste of new articles and family records coming soon

2 October

Picture of the week showing a large Victorian nursery in St Saviour

7 October

Launch of enlarged index of church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials

8 October

Update on church records availability on Jerripedia‎, more baptisms added
Audrain new family page
Audrain family history a history
Descendants of Pierre Marie Audrain and a family tree
Descendants of Marin Aubin - 2
Descendants of Charles Aubin and Anne Gouray
Descendants of Laurens Barbet
Descendants of Edmond Morel a 14-generation tree from the 16th to the 21st century
Botrel family page with pictures
Descendants of Servais Bertram and Collette Filleul-3 a New Zealand descendancy with a problem

9 October

The first batch of family records is now completed. There is a full set of baptism records for eight parishes, and a selection of records for the other four

11 October

The Code of 1771 a 1939 article on the 18th century document which brought together all Jersey's laws, highlighting some of the more unusual rules which remained in force in the 20th century
Fruing, a new family page
Descendants of William Fruing a family tree
A history of the Fruing family and it's Canadian business and a family history
A timeline of Jersey's involvement in the Newfoundland and Gaspe cod fishing industry
Descendants of Matthieu Briard‎
Descendants of Jean Boielle
Descendants of Jean Bisson and Jeanne de Gruchy - 2
Descendants of Amice Bertram and Elizabeth Le Neveu
Descendants of Jean Corbet -2
Descendants of Jean Corbet -3
Descendants of Michel d'Auvergne - 2
Corbets of Coutances and Jersey
Ancestry of d’Auvergne family before arriving in Jersey‎
De La Haye family history
De Carteret family history

12 October

13 October

Descendants of Colin Labey, gaps filled in an old tree and more details added, plus three branch trees
Descendants of Thomas Labey
Descendants of George Josue Labey
Descendants of Pierre Labey
Descendants of Julien Jouault
Descendants of Francois Jandron
Descendants of Maturin Jandron, the founder of the Jersey family
Descendants of Jean Hubert and Susanne Marett
Descendants of Amice Horman
Descendants of Etienne La Cloche, a 17-generation tree

14 October

Senator Clarence Dupré, fishmonger and prominent politician

15 October

History of the Le Gros family

And a batch of new family trees

17 October

18 October

History of St Helier lifeboat by Helen Attenborough

Hundreds of new pictures have been added to the site this week. Check out your favourite pages to see if their picture galleries have grown

19 October

20 October

Caesarean Nurseries, the full story of one of the biggest Victorian businesses in Jersey
Three Frenchmen escape, the story of three Frenchmen who escaped from France to Jersey and then from Jersey to England
1965 air crash, the full story of Jersey's worst aviation disaster
Marais, a new family page with pictures

21 October

A virtually complete set of baptism records for all 12 parishes is now aaccessible from our Family records page

22 October

7 November

Bergerac a new page on the world famous BBC detective series that showcased Jersey to a worldwide audience in the 1980s

19 November

Picture of the week, a welcome return for our weekly feature picture, showing a view today of an Airport building restored to its former glory

5 December

Picture of the week, an iconic picture of evacuees from the island before the German Occupation

8 December

Horseshoe Quarry, historic pictures of a little known Quarry at Westmount
Maps of St Helier showing its development from the 16th century to the present day
Motorbikes a new page of pictures of old motorbikes in Jersey
St Ouen marriages the first of a new batch of family records from the church registers

9 December

A large number of new pictures have been added to the site in the past few days and continue to be posted to pages. Click on the Recent changes link to see which pages have changed
Cholera hits the island in 1832
The Avons a Jerseyman joins two sisters-in-law in a 1950s pop group

16 December

St Mary marriages to 1842 A-Z
Picture of the week, a new feature picture highlighting relaxed attitudes to health and safety at work in 1949

23 December

Jersey Battle of Flowers a new batch of pictures added to the gallery
Many other new pictures uploaded to the site and being allocated to pages
... including one in the Esplanade gallery showing severe damage to the seawall in the 19th Century
... and several in the Markets gallery
... and two mysterious pictures of Havre des Pas bathing pool - see the end of the gallery

29 December

Jeanne Emily Renouf, an Occupation story
St Clement marriages

30 December

St Peter marriages

31 December

A gallery of Francis Foot photographs of the Jersey Battle of Flowers
A New Year message from the editorial team
A gallery of pictures of celebrations of the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Hue Street, more pictures added to the gallery of some of St Helier's oldest buildings, demolished in the 1970s and 80s
Westmount, an extended article with many new pictures on the hill to the west of St Helier where public hangings were staged until 1829

1 January 2013

Jersey Battle of Flowers, another 30 historical Battle pictures added to the gallery, bringing the total on the page to 250
St Lawrence marriages
Picture of the week a new feature picture showing cider making in the traditional manner. We managed 31 pictures of the week in 2012, and our New Year Resolution is to improve on that in 2013

3 January

4 January

5 January

Church records database, Jerripedia users are invited to test the database of church family records which is under development

7 January

Descendants of Jean Perchard
Descendants of William Pitman
Claude Cahun, a French artist who settled in Jersey and was an active propagandist during the Occupation

8 January

9 January

Boulevard Avenue a new page on an area and terrace of homes on St Helier's western boundary
David William Pavey, personal recollections of life in Jersey in the 1930s and evacuation to Weymouth
L'Anciennette, the story of a 16th century St Brelade property which was demolished to provide granite and other features for the restoration of Trinity Manor.

10 January

Descendants of Thomas Sarre and Elizabeth Malzard - 2
Descendants of Thomas Sarre and Rachel Hamon
The Sarres of Trinity
Descendants of Jean Sarre of Mourier, St John
Descendants of Jean Sarre (1743)
Picture of the week, a new feature picture with an unusual view of St Helier Harbour

12 January

Voisin a new family page and Descendants of Louis Voisin, 13-generation tree
Descendants of Jean Sprague
Descendants of Jean Starck
Descendants of Philippe Syvret
Descendants of Pierre Vardon
Descendants of Thomas Venement
Presbyterian Church, an expanded page on Jersey's Scottish Presbyterian church, the Church of St Columba

14 January

The Fiery Column, the story of a 17th century Dutch navigational guide which includes the Channel Islands
Claude Cahun, gallery of photographs and other works added to the artist's biography
Palace Hotel a magnificent pre-war hotel which exploded when it caught fire while occupied by the Germans

15 January

Picture of the week, another historical picture of St Helier Harbour
Descendants of Nicodeme Falle, an important new 14-generation tree

18 January

Channel Islands in the Normandy rolls how the islands were governed and taxed from 1066 to 1204
Life in Jersey after 1066 a summary of the above article
Clement Le Couteur and Philippe Le Couteur two brothers who were Deans of Jersey in the 17th century

19 January

Francois Payn, Jersey's longest-serving Dean, who was absent from the island for long periods
Edouard Dupre, a controversial Dean who fell out with the political party of which he had been a prominent member
Pierre Faleyse a Dean who was arrested and imprisoned by the King's Justices

22 January

Picture of the week, crowds gather in the Royal Square for the visit of Queen Victoria

24 January

St Martin and de la Court families, the early owners of Trinity Manor and stories of intrigue and treason

26 January

Trinity Manor, a detailed history of one of Jersey's oldest and most important family homes, in a series of articles with linked family trees
Family tree index, the Jerripedia collection of Jersey family trees reaches 950

4 February

5 February

St Saviour burials 1541-1682
Descendants of Symon Braye
Descendants of Edouard Braye two linked trees with 13 generations of the Braye/Bree family
Descendants of Richard Braye
Descendants of Jean Bree and two more trees which also link up
Descendants of Jean Messervy -2

6 February

Descendants of Pierre Botrel
Picture of the week, a new copy of an 1840 painting of Le Hocq Tower

7 February

St Lawrence burials L-Z

8 February

9 February

St Saviour Marriages 1542-1684 index re-edited and updated
Descendants of Guille Dumaresq - 2, a major tree for this important Jersey family with over 400 lines and 13 generations
Descendants of Thomas Canivet, the first tree for this family
St John Marriages indexes by male and female names
Descendants of Charles Le Boutillier
Descendants of Richard Malet
Descendants of Abraham Messervy
Descendants of Philippe Mallet
Descendants of Richard Fauvel
Descendants of Guillaume Le Rossignol
Descendants of Jacques Fondan
Descendants of Pierre Fondan - 2
Descendants of Nicolas Germain

10 February

11 February

12 February

13 February

14 February

St Martin burials
Egre a new family page and Descendants of Jacques Aigret a family tree

15 February

Jerripedia is three years old today

Philippe de Carteret, a Jerseyman who led a round-the-world voyage
Old Jersey silver a 1930s article on Jersey silver
Observatory timeline, the history of Jersey's weather observatory

16 February

Surviving menhirs, the prehistoric standing stones in the west of the island
Chaire of Gold a 16th century book analysed

17 February

A 1672 Atlas, a description of Jersey and Guernsey in a 17th century publication
Philip Durel, a distinguished 18th century Admiral
Major Peirson pedigree, the family of the hero of the Battle of Jersey
The role of the Constables, a 1951 article
Agriculture in 1801 and 1949 compared
18th century land use statistics

18 February

St Helier baptisms 1751-1789 page images replaced with text index
Picture of the week, a militia camp at Fort Regent's East Glacis

19 February

St Helier baptisms 1801-1805 page images replaced with text index
St Aubin Market
1832 cholera epidemic - how the first of the 19th century cholera outbreaks affected the island
Vinchelez de Haut Manor - one of Jersey's major fiefs in the 19th century

20 February

Maison du Mont an 18th century house which was demolished to make way for the Tunnel
Descendants of Pierre Mallet and Anne Le Pellier, and the family who owned it

21 February

Bergerac, a fascinating set of publicity pictures added to the page on Jersey's tv cop
North America voyage, diary of a round trip to the USA in the mid-19th century
Benetier at Bandinel Farm an old granite alcove uncovered in the '70s in a St Martin house
St Andrew's, an expanded page on the church in First Tower Park
St Jude's Chapel, the story of a former church in the centre of St Helier
Le Trésor, the history of a St Lawrence property
The Dumaresq Map, a particularly accurate 17th century map of Jersey
Marx and Engels in Jersey, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were regular visitors to Jersey

22 February

Walter Guiton, the founder of the Jersey Evening Post

23 February

Francis Voisin the founder of probably the oldest family business in the British Isles
Nicolas Fiott, one of Jersey's largest employers in the 18th century who had a long-running battle with the island's authorities

24 February

St Lawrence burials A-K

28 February

Picture of the week a mystery picture of a veteran car and charabanc
St Martin marriages 1594-1755
St John burials
Dumaresq Street, a history of the St Helier street and its threatened buildings

2 March

St Ouen burials A-L
Leonard Skingle, a St Helier shopkeeper and keen photographer

3 March

Picture of the week, a new feature picture of a West Park newspaper kiosk

4 March

A large batch of new pictures added to the galleries for the Liberation; St Helier Harbour; Deportation, a new gallery; Gorey; Havre des Pas; maritime pictures; Hotels and other pages throughout the site

6 March

St Saviour marriages 1684-1842

9 March

Another 250 pictures have been added to the site today. Some of the best will be found on the Jersey in pictures page
Pictures have also been added to Farming picture gallery

10 March

Jersey Battle of Flowers, over 30 more pictures from 1905 onwards added to a gallery which now contains over 300 images of the event from 1902 to the present day

11 March

Picture of the week, Queen Victoria's visit to Jersey in 1846

12 March

St Helier marriages 1837-1842

15 March

St Helier marriages 1824-1837
Parish administration, an overview of Jersey's honorary system from 1986
St Mary and St Peter's Church windows Jersey has fine examples of the work of an Irish stained glass master
The Mauger desk from Avranches, an early 18th century desk and its secrets

16 March

New museum plans looking forwards to Jersey's new museum building in 1986
Militia uniform buttons, the history of Militia uniforms
New museum reviewed 1992 article

22 March

Roy Skingle, a Jerseyman's personal recollections of deportation during the Occupation
Picture of the week, an 1875 view of Broad Street

26 March

Picture of the week, two pictures of La Corbière

30 March

Jersey stamp issues links to all Jersey stamp issues from 1969

9 April

History of Havre des Pas Pool

10 April

Barge Aground the last of St Ouen's Bay's beachside bungalows
New North Quay warehouses

11 April

Picture of the week, a Victorian lady on the beach at West Park

12 April

Jersey Currency pictures of Occupation banknotes added
Barge Aground pictures added
Norman's a new page of pictures of a long-established Jersey business
La Maison Maret, a prominent Trinity property and a mystery photograph

16 April

Picture of the week, school photographs from the early 20th century

20 April

21 April

16th century development of Mont Orgueil Castle
The Royal Court at Grouville did a Court hearing depicted in a stained-glass window at St Ouen's Manor take place in Grouville, and, if so, where?

22 April

The true lineage of the Hemery Family a 2002 article disputing some of the hitherto generally accepted versions of the Hemery lineage in Jersey
The Hemery family in Jersey, accompanying family tree
Peter, privateer, the story of a Jersey vessel built to attack French shipping at times of war
Family records, editing of translated indexes of some 300,000 baptism, marriage and burial records in Jersey from the late 16th century to the mid-19th is now complete. The new indexes (for St Clement, St Martin and St Helier) replace existing page images, and will be added over the next fortnight after they have been proofread and corrected. Our project to put all available Jersey church records online is nearing completion, and the accompanying fully searchable database is progressing well, with over 140,000 records available.

24 April

Picture of the week, Havre des Pas Pool

27 April

Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames Nearly 2,000 variations of common Jersey family names from a 1970 survey

28 April

Picture of the week, farming at St Catherine a century ago
A history of Greve de Lecq
A history of Les Quennevais
A history of La Rocque
Mont Mado
Grande Route des Mielles
A history of Gorey Pier

29 April

30 April

Philip de la Mare a Mormon pioneer in the USA
Philip de la Mare's adventures, as recounted by his great-grandson
Philip de la Mare's own story, as told to his grandson
History of de la Mare family, the family in Jersey by Philip's nephew
Descendants of Jean de Quetteville (1558)
Descendants of Philippe de Quetteville
Descendants of Pierre Renouf son of Jean
Descendants of Jean Feret
Descendants of Auguste Gayet
Descendants of Moyse Cabot
Descendants of Charles Mollet
Descendants of Raulin Luce and Marie Trachie
Descendants of Philippe Anley
Descendants of Charles Hotton

1 May

Five linked trees

2 May

The account of Hugh of St Philibert 1226, the accounts of an official involved with early construction work on Mont Orgueil Castle
Louis Jouault, a Jerseyman who bore the French flag in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war

3 May

Picture of the week, four pictures showing the development of The Weighbridge from the 1870s onwards

4 May

A history of Millbrook
The Cenotaph, a new page bringing together all Jerripedia's pictures of Jersey's main war memorial
Longueville, a St Saviour property also known as Anthoine's Farm, after the family which owned it for more than 200 years

5 May

Francois Scornet, a young Frenchmen executed by the Germans in Jersey during the Occupation
A history of Grands Vaux
Construction of Corbiere lighthouse, a 1880 report by the man who built the lighthouse seven years earlier
Some early panoramic views of the island‎

6 May

The 1870s harbour enlargement project full details from the engineer in charge of a project which almost gave St Helier a deep-water harbour in the 1870s

7 May

Sir Harry Burrard, a top General born in Jersey
Edouard Le Vavasseur dit Durell, a controversial clergyman, politician and then historian of the early 19th century

8 May

Philippe Filleul, a biography of another controversial clergyman
Jean Neel and Vincent Tehy 15th century co-founders of St Mannelier's and St Anastase's Grammar schools in Jersey
Jehan Hue, the man who first gave the land for St Mannelier's.

9 May

History of the Hue family, start of a new series of histories of important Jersey families
Descendants of Jehan Hue, with accompanying family trees
A history of the Baudains family and benefactor Laurens Baudains
Descendants of Cardin Baudains

10 May

12 May

16 May

Picture of the week, a new feature picture showing the back of the Esplanade in the 1870s, before the Grand Hotel was built

18 May

Jersey in pictures a new menu page bringing together links to all the best picture galleries in Jerripedia

21 May

St Helier church records index, a new index page for the largest parish, with a single A-Z index for over 31,000 baptisms before 1842

22 May

Picture of the week, this week's feature picture shows a First World War creche