Romeril

Romeril family page

Clara Marguerite Romeril, daughter of Pierre and Anne Le Bas Record Search Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Romeril family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Romeril, 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. 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 Romeril family, please contact editcontact@theislandwiki.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

Origin of Surname

This surname is found in over 70 known spellings including Roman, Romain, Roma, Romao, Romeo, Romero, Romeril, Romanet, Romilly, Romanski and Romero, to give just a few of the forms. It is recorded in almost every European country.

In general there are two origins, the first being that the name identifies a former citizen of Rome, but as the only place that most people had ever heard of outside their own country was Rome, this surname also became a description for all Italians!

Secondly the religious revival of the Middle Ages and the Crusades to free the Holy Land created a major boost for any name associated with centres of Christianity. Rome being the centre of Christianity, the name was even given to people who had been to Rome on a pilgrimage.

Early records

Anthony Romeril is listed in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550

Baptism records show that the family was established in St Saviour in the middle of the 16th century, and then in St Helier and Trinity, before spreading throughout the island. The following records predate church registers.

• Francoise Romeril was born in St Saviour about 1536 and married Guyon Ahier
• Leonard Romeril was born in Trinity about 1542 and married Jeannette Le Boutillier. He died in 1570
• Servaise Romeril was born in Jersey about 1572 and married Vincent Marett
• John Romeril was born in St John about 1574 and married Jane
• Susanne Romeril was born in Jersey about 1576 and married Jean Pinel
• Perrenelle Romeril was born in St John about 1584 and married Mathieu Romeril
• Anne Romeril was born in St John about 1587 and married Pierre Maret there on 16 September 1612
• Clement Romeril was born in St John about 1589

Variants

• Romeril, 1668
• Romerill 1607
• Rommeril 1597
• Romeryll 1528
• Romilly
• Romery
• Romeri
• Rumerill

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Leonard Romeril and Jehanette Le Boutillier

The first two trees below are both of Romerils in St Lawrence. They are believed to be connected in the 17th century but the link has not been positively established

• Descendants of Jean Romeril and Elizabeth Conefray
• Descendants of Philippe Romeril and Marie Pinel
• Descendants of Jean Romeril
• Descendants of Nicolas Romeril
• Descendants of Clement Romeril
• Descendants of Edouard Romeril
• Descendants of Jean Romeril - 2 NEW

Church records

• Romeril baptisms in Jersey

Family histories

• The Romeril family, by the Rev J A Messervy
• The story of the Romeril family who were on the Chimborazo
• Mary Billot and Francis Romeril
• Francois Romeril and Mary Billot
• Who was Francis Romeril's father? - a genealogical detective story
• Francois Amice Romeril, journalist

Great War service

• Romeril family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

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

Family businesses

• Edward Romeril was a tailor at 69 King Street in the 1860s ...
• ... whether the same Edward, or perhaps his son, there was an Edward Romeril, draper and tailor, at 74 King Street in the 1870s and '80s

Family properties

• La Fontaine, Ville a l'Eveque, Trinity
• Greenhill, St Lawrence
• Le Manoir de Malorey, St Lawrence
• Le Nord, St John

Family photo album

After the death of Charles Durell Romeril, born in Jersey in 1852, his home was moved across family land in Utah for his widow, Sarah, nee Bean, by her son-in-law Rudolph Shurtz

Family gravestones

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