Sanders and Saunders family page
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This family has been present in Jersey since the early 17th century
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Origins of surname
Although apparently distinct families in Jersey, allowing for confusion over spelling in some family records, both these names derive originally from Alexander, the 'defender'; or alternatively from someone who worked with sand.
Early records
Saunders is by far the more common of the two names in Jersey, and first appeared in 1602, although there was only a scattering of baptisms over the next two centuries, before the family became established in the early 19th.
Sanders did not appear until the 1780s, but immediately George and Elizabeth Laurens established a family group.
Neither name is listed in our Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames, indicating that they do not appear in early official records.
Variants
- Sanders
- Saunders
Family records
Family trees
- Descendants of George Sanders
- Descendants of Edward Sanders
- Descendants of Mark Saunders
- Descendants of John Sanders
Births and baptisms
Great War service
Family wills
Family businesses
- W Saunders was shown in an 1834 trade directory as the first of a succession of chemists at 4 King Street. This would have been William, born in St Helier in 1791, the son of William and Elizabeth Feltham
- Thomas Saunders was a draper at 10 King Street in 1841
- English confectioner Mark Saunders was at 41 Halkett Place in the 1850s, 6 Halkett Place in the 1860s and '70s ...
- ... and at 42 King Street in the 1880s, followed by his daughter Jane
- William Henry Saunders was a hosier at 47 King Street from 1885 to 1903 and then at No 55 King Street until the 1930s.
- Nurseryman Bernard Saunders was at 19 Halkett Place in 1851
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Family photo album
Auguste Louis Bienaime Saunders
Desiree Saunders, nee Le Reverand
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Family gravestones
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Saunders - St Ouen parish cemetery
