Bertaut family page
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.png) Anne Berteau, nee Le Marquand, wife of artist Thomas
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Origin of surname
Found in Normandy today this name was originally a medieval baptismal name from the Germanic Bertald, previously Berhtwald, a combination of berht (brilliant) and wald (strong). The original holder of the name must have been quite a guy! Although the spelling Bertaux is more common in France today, it is said to have originated as an error.
Early records
There is a record in Normandy of a Guillermus Bertaut in 1332. Our original set of family trees (see below) suggested that four different members of the family (perhaps brothers) came to Jersey in the second half of the 17th century, perhaps as Huguenot refugees, but a decade or two before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. An unknown Bertaut widow features in the list of abjurations for 1687.
However, the name is found in the island much earlier. Church records show that the family was already established in the early 17th century when a number of Bertauts were born around 1620-30, probably all in St Lawrence.
The following Bertauts can be identified on the 1646 St Lawrence Manifeste des Etats: Raulin, Jean, Abraham, Michel, and M Bertault (Matthieu?).
The family goes back even further, however, and was recorded in St Lawrence in 1530, and with the spelling variation Bertault on a number of occasions in the 16th century in St Lawrence and St Peter
Variations
- Bertaut 1530 Ouie de Paroisse, St L
- Bertaux
- Bertault 1532, 1536, 1550 Chantry Certificate, St L and St P
- Bertaud
- Bertauld
- Berteau
Family records
Family trees
This first group of trees are the original ones posted to the site in 2013. Although changes have been made over the years, few additions have been made and recently significant errors have been identified. The second group of trees below was supplied in 2020 by Bertaut researcher James Brannan, together with extensive notes. The first group are being retained at least until it is possible to carry out a further check on the variations from the new trees. Researchers are advised, however, that all the information they need on the Bertaut (and spelling variations such as Berteau) family in Jersey is likely to be found in the second group of trees
- Descendants of Pierre Bertaut
- Descendants of Michel Bertaut
- Descendants of Michel Bertaut - 2
- Descendants of Matthieu Bertaut
- Descendants of Thomas Bertaut
New Bertaut/Berteau trees added in 2020, as supplied by James Brannan
- Descendants of Philippe Bertaut and Marie Le Cras
- Descendants of Thomas Bertaut - 2
- Descendants of Matthieu Bertaut - 2
- Descendants of Jean Bertaut
- Descendants of Jean Bertaut - 2
- Descendants of Thomas Bertaut and Jeanne Luce
- Descendants of Raulin Bertaut
Church records
- Bertaut baptisms in Jersey
- Bertaut marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Bertaut marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Bertaut burials in Jersey
Great War service
Sons of Edward Berteau and Emma
- Alfred Edward Berteau (1892- ) (St S) Sapper, Australian Engineers
- Reginald Louis Berteau (1890-) (St S) Private, Canadian Infantry
Family wills
Burial records
- Note: A number of Berteau/Bertaut burials in St Lawrence were found to be wrongly indexed. These entries have now been corrected in our searchable database.
Biographies
- Thomas Berteau: Artist
Family album
Thomas Berteau's painting of his mother Jane, nee Grellier
Thomas Berteau's painting of his father Jean
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Family businesses
1837 advert by artist Mons Bertault
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
Family gravestones
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Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
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
Since August 2020 we have added 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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