Bree family page
|
A Mrs Bree photographed by Ernest Baudoux
Record Search
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. 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
|
Origin of Surname
The name is probably derived from the old French for white poplar, suggesting that the original holder of the name lived near a grove of these trees.
However, it may have a derivation specific to Jersey and mean 'a Breton' because the early Jersey poet Wace refered to the Bretons as Les Brez.
Early records
Bree is not found in the Assize Roll of 1309 nor the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 but a Symon Bree was born in St Martin about 1500 and had sons Richard and Edouard.
Variants
- Bray, 1528
- Bree, 1500
- Braye
Family records
Family trees
The first three trees are slightly differing versions of the same descendancy from separate sources
- Descendants of Symon Braye
- Descendants of Edouard Braye
- Descendants of Richard Braye
- Descendants of Jean Bree
- Descendants of Edouard Bree
- Descendants of Philip Bree
Baptisms
Family histories and biographies
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family businesses
- Elias Bree was a shoemaker at 17 King Street in the 1850s
- No 57 King StreetC Bray had a boot and shoe warehouse at 57 King Street in 1900]]
Family photo album
Family businesses
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. Images of gravestones in other cemeteries will be added progressively