Origin of Surname
There are two fiefs, with their villages, named Quetteville in Normandy, one in the Cotentin, virtually in sight of Jersey, and the other in the Pays d`Auge, to the east of Caen. From one of these, perhaps the former, the family took its name. In Jersey, the family had a third fief, the Fief de Quetteville, in St Martin, situated at about one mile to the west of Mont Orgueil Castle. The seigneur in 1309 was Richard de Quetteville. The fief was, according to the Oxford historian A. H. Ewen, one of those likely to have been granted by William, Duke of Normandy in 1047, after the Battle of Val ès Dunes, to knightly families who had formerly supported the Vicomtes of St Sauveur and the Bessin, in their rebellion against him. [1] By 1331, the fief had passed into the hands of the all-powerful de St Martin family, Seigneurs of Trinity.
Early references
Between 1199-1204, the name of Hugh de Quetteville, Hugo de Ketevilla, featured in Norman records [2]
Quetivel
A similar surname, de Quetivel, is derived, as also is the first part of Quetteville, from the Norse personal name Ketill and from vellir (fields), as opposed to ville (hamlet), and should not be confused with the distinct Jersey surname, de Quetteville. This similar name, de Quetivel, can be found in the Short Inquisition of 1274. It does not help that, once separated from its original holders, de Quetteville, the fief of this name was afterwards called the Fief de Quetivel
Payne's Armorial of Jersey
"This family has been settled from a very early period in the eastern parish of St Martin, of which one of its members was Constable about 1330. Its name is very probably derived from the village of Quetteville, in Normandy ; and the fief of Quetivel, in Jersey, received the name of this family, who were [3] its first proprietors. In 1331, Andrieu De Quetteville appears as one of the jury empanelled to ascertain the King's dues in the parish of St Martin, and in 1546 John De Quetteville was one of the procureurs of the same parish. The family has continued to reside in its old ancestral house, and is now represented there by Francis De Quetteville. Another branch also residing in St Martin is represented by Joshua-Dumaresq de Quetteville
A branch of the family appears to have settled at an early period in Guernsey. John De Quetteville was Bailly of that island in 1631, and his namesake was elected Jurat of its Royal Court in 1653"
The Jersey branch of the family has given to the Island three Jurats, one of whom was a Lieutenant-Bailiff, and three Constables, all of the latter having been from St Martin. In the ecclesiastical realm, it has given birth to two pre-Reformation priests, Sire Thomas de Quetteville ( -1546) and Sire John de Quetteville, who was living in 1547.
In England, the Rev. Jean de Quetteville was an 18th century Rector of East Langdon, Kent, the Rev. William de Quetteville was, until 1895, Rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire, and the Rev. Philip Winter de Quetteville, who was briefly a curate in various English parishes, was also a Chaplain in Rotterdam, 1874-1876.
The leader of Guernsey`s Methodism, was the Rev. Jean de Quetteville, who was born in Jersey, at Le Catillon, St Martin.
Variants
- de Quetteville, 1299
- de Queteville, 1331
- Dequetteville
- Queteville, 1528
- Quettevilles
- de Ketiville, 1309
Family records
Family trees
- Descendants of Jean de Quetteville (1535)
- Descendants of Jean de Quetteville (1558)
- Descendants of Philippe de Quetteville
- St Martin de Quetteville descendancy this tree covers the lineage of the two trees immediately above, although lacking the detail contained in their notes
- Descendants of Charles Middleton de Quetteville Added 2020
Church records
- De Quetteville baptisms in Jersey
- De Quetteville marriages in Jersey (groom)
- De Quetteville marriages in Jersey (bride)
- De Quetteville burials in Jersey
Family histories
- A history of the de Quetteville family: by a descendant
- Jean de Quetteville, Methodist pioneer
- David de Quetteville, Pioneer of Jersey's Labrador fisheries
Newspaper records
- John de Quetteville, 1848 land valuer
- David de Quetteville appointed to reservoir planning committee in 1848
- David de Quetteville appointed to St Helier Roads Committee in 1848
Great War service
Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc
- Alfred Philip de Quetteville (1893-1918) son of Clement Dumaresq and Margaret Palmer; Lance Sergeant, Canadian Infantry, killed in action
- Stanley Nelson de Quetteville (1889- ) (St H) son of Stanley and Jane Priaulx Stonelake; Lieutenant, Royal Canadian Navy, HMS Indefatigable, killed in action
- Philip Sydney de Quetteville (1895- ) (St O) son of Philip Winter and Mary Hacquoil; Private, Hampshire Regiment
- Robert George de Quetteville (1896-1975) (Eng) D.S.O., M.C. son of William Frederick Ludlow and Agnes Jessie Florence Buchanan Wingate; Captain, Green Howards
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- La Bachauderie, St Saviour
- Beuvelande, St Martin
- Le Catillon St Martin
- Faldouet Farm, St Martin
- Les Charrieres, St Martin
- Noirmont Manor
Family photo album
Mr de Quetteville, photographed by Henry Mullins - probably Clement Augustus de Quetteville, as a young man
Girard de Quetteville, in whose memory was founded the Victoria College library, by his sister, Miss Esther Frances de Quetteville
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Family businesses
1890
Family gravestones
Almorah cemetery
The grave of Great War casualty Alfred Philip de Quetteville, at Hangard Wood British Cemetery, Somme
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Notes and references
- ↑ For further information on this subject, see the Jersey Fief de Gruchy
- ↑ Sidney Raymond Packard (ed.), Miscellaneous Records of the Norman Exchequer, 1100-1204, (France, 1927), 99
- ↑ Payne wrote 'probably'
