Origins of surname
This is a common name in Normandy and is derived from the old French quaré, meaning square or well-built. There is also a possibility that the name relates to a word used in parts of Normandy for a vegetable bed, and could have been used to identify a gardener, but this meaning is not thought very likely by experts in the derivation of French names.
Early records
The name first appears in church records in St Brelade in the first decade of the 17th century. There are unconnected baptisms in St Clement from 1629 to 1645, and more in St Helier from 1779 to 1784.
It appears that all these early families, which failed to catch the attention of the compiler of our comprehensive list of Jersey surnames, died out, and the name made a reappearance in the early 19th century. At least two families came to Jersey from Sark, where the name has remained common, as it also is today in Jersey.
Variants
- Carre
- Le Carre
- Carret, a French variation
- Carrel, a separate family in Jersey
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Carre baptisms in Jersey
- Carre marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Carre marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Carre burials in Jersey
Great War service
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Family album
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Louisa Marie Le Carre
A Carre family gathering in the 1970s
Miriam Brochet, nee Carre
Gladys Ada Lempriere (1893- ), sister of Phyllis and Stella, with her husband Philip Gough Carre (1895- )
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Family gravestones
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St Mary’s Church cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
St Lawrence
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