Aspley

Asplet family page

Since creating this page for Aspley it has become apparent that the spelling Asplet is much more common in Jersey. It is possible that there are two distinct families and that, where the name appears with different spellings within the same family group, this is a recording error or a transcription mistake Amelia Louise Asplet, born NSW, Australia, daughter of Jersey emigrant George Elias Asplet (1827-1899) and Isabella Stewart (1839-1874) Record Search Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Asplet family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Asplet, 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. New records From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page. 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 Asplet 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

• Nothing has been found to indicate the origins of this name, which has been present in Jersey since at least 1450. It is believed that Aspley and Asplet are one family, although it is not clear when the different spellings appeared.

Variants

• Aspley
• Asplet

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of John Aspley (1481)
• Descendants of Guillaume Asplet
• Descendants of Francois Asplet

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Asplet baptisms in Jersey
• Asplet marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Asplet marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Asplet burials in Jersey

Great War service

• Alfred George Asplet (St J), Private in Essex Regiment
• George Raymond Asplet (St H), Driver RASC

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc

Occupation records

• Asplet Occupation identity cards

Burial records

• Asplet burial records 1820-1978

Family wills

• Asplet family wills from 1663 to 1948 held by Jersey Archive

Emigrant to Canada

• Aaron Asplet's petition for land in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Family album

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  Charles Asplet (1813-1881) was a successful grocer and wine merchant in St Helier. He is remembered as a witty and cultured person. When Victor Hugo came to Jersey in self-exile he became a special friend of Charles and his brother Philippe. Hugo became unpopular in Jersey and eventually was forced to leave for Guernsey. Charles Asplet’s business suffered from his close association with Hugo.

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  Mary Asplet (1859-1882) was the daughter of Charles and his second wife, Mary Sohier. Also known as Molly, she was noted to be a witty, charming and attractive young woman. She died soon after this photo was taken, at the age of 22, of tuberculosis. She was buried in St Clement nine months after her father.

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  Sisters: Ellen Gabeldu, nee Asplet (1832-1918) ...

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  ... and Hattie Vibert, nee Asplet (1841-1912), emigrated to Australia with her husband Philip and their children

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  John William Asplet (1866-1920). Son of Thomas and Esther. He emigrated to the USA via Canada in 1881 and married Mae Brooks Dartnell

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  Mae Brooks Asplet, nee Dartnell

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  Wedding in about 1900 of John and Mae

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  John Cameron Aspley, son of John William and Mae

Family businesses

• Tallow chandler Philip Asplet was at 18 Halkett Place in 1851

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Asplet 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

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  Almorah cemetery

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  Almorah cemetery

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  Almorah cemetery

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  Almorah cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  St Peter parish cemetery

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

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.

New records

Starting in August 2020 we are adding several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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