Courcoux

Courcoux family page

This is one of the many families from the Cotes d'Armor department of north Brittany to come to Jersey in the mid-19th century as seasonal workers and eventually settle and raise a family in the island

John Courcoux and Renee, nee Sauvey, with their fathers after their 1944 wedding. The picture was taken at Les Chasses Farm, St John

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Courcoux family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Courcoux, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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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.

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Origins of surname

This name is found in the Cotes d'Armor department of north Brittany and appears to be a variant of Corcuff, found in the south of the region. It is derived from an old personal name meaning 'pleasant or agreeable man'.

Early records

The first Jersey record is the birth of Henri Francois Courcoux in St Lawrence in 1868. The family in Jersey originated in Plaintel in Cotes d'Armor

Variants

• Courcoux
• Gourcuff

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Jan Courcoux

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Great War service

• Guilleaume Francois Courcoux (1885-1914) son of Guillaume Francois and Marie Anne Roussel, Able Seaman RN, HMS Good Hope, killed in action, Battle of Coronel, South America

Sons of George and Mary Ann Courcoux of St Helier

• John Henry Courcoux (1897-1917) Private, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died of wounds
• Robert Charles Courcoux (1891-1917) Sergeant, Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action
• George Robert Courcoux (1889- ) (St P), Private RE

• John Francis Courcoux (1885- ) (St H) Private, Canadian Army Service Corps
• Pierre Mathurin Courcoux (1900- ) (St H) Ordinary Seaman Rn, HMS Barham

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc

Occupation records

• Courcoux Occupation identity cards

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Courcoux family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

• Courcoux : Beatrice , of St Helier House, Westmount Road, St Helier - 18/Apr/1979 , 01/May/1980 , D/Y/B1/321/44
• Courcoux : Edith Maud , widow of Reginald de Carteret Grandin, of 6, Blenheim Avenue, Bagot, St Saviour - 30/Jan/1969 , 09/Jul/1976 , D/Y/B1/243/7
• Courcoux : Eunice Mary Louise , widow of Louis Philippe Raymond Audrain, of Ker-Maria, Rue a la Dame, St Saviour - 06/Apr/1970 , 06/Apr/1970 , D/Y/B1/143/54
• Courcoux : Guillaume Francois , Mont au Pretre, St Helier - 21/Oct/1916 , 07/Sep/1920 , D/Y/A/80/105
• Courcoux : Guilleaume Louis , Grouville - 22/Jan/1935 , 07/Oct/1942 , D/Y/A/110/3
• Courcoux : Marie Jeanne , widow of Maurice Pincemin - 10/May/1903 , 27/Jun/1907 , D/Y/A/66/74
• Courcoux : Yvonne Marie , nee Le Saux, widow of Guilleaume Louis Courcoux, of Deansway, Five Oaks, St Saviour - 19/Dec/1951 , 10/Apr/1963 , D/Y/B1/73/51

Family album

Guillaume Louis Courcoux (1904-1986) and his wife Edith Margaret, nee Journeaux (1905-1977), with their first son John, Edith's mother, Marie Journeaux, and Guillaume's father Guillaume, in 1931. The picture may have been taken at Le Parcq, Grouville. Guillaume Louis was the son of another Guillaume Louis (1875-1942) and Marie Yvonne, nee Le Saux (1885-1963). Guillaume and Edith married in 1926 and had four children - John William (1927- ), Yvonne Marguerite (1939- ), William John (1941- ) and Edith Margaret (1950- )

Occupation curfew cards

Family gravestones

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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

Notes and references

1. ↑ This card is held by Jersey Archive. Visit The Archive online catalogue for more information. A subscription may be needed to view some of the site's content