Burial records
1820-1978
from Jersey's major
funeral directors - Z
This page is part of Jerripedia's index to the most valuable set of records added since church records were released by Jersey Archive to Ancestry in 2016. The index covers the combined records of the seven main funeral directors active from 1820 to the 1970s. This is an invaluable resource, because it brings together all 66,000-plus undertakers' records for funerals at churches of all denominations, plus the early years of Jersey Crematorium. The details included by the seven businesses vary considerably, but most identify the deceased, their next of kin, cemetery of burial and other personal information, as well as an itemised list of the costs of the funeral.
Searches on the Archive website are limited to individual funeral directors' records, but after several months work by the editorial team we have brought everything together in a single index.
This link will take you to the Jersey Archive main index page for the full collection of funeral directors' records. The page will open for everybody, but individual records can only be viewed by Jersey Archive website subscribers
Please note that the amount of information provided varies considerably from undertaker to undertaker and the index has been designed to allow the most important elements of all records to be viewed, particularly for the benefit of those who do not have an Archive website subscription. For those wishing to view the full records on that website the key items are the names of the deceased, the funeral director and the date. They will take you direct to the web page with images of the undertaker's volume containing the record, bypassing the less informative and sometimes incomplete Archive index
