Dorey

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This family, which is found in Guernsey as well as Jersey, can be found in records as far back as the 16th century, but was probably established some time before then

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Plumber John Dorey and colleague


Record Search


Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Dorey family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Dorey, 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.

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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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Origin of Surname

Dorey may be a name given to a man with golden hair (doré), or it may be short for Theodore. It is also suggested that it may derive from the old French for goldsmith or gilder.

A Dorey descendant and researcher has sent us this explanation:

"The reputed origin for the surname “Dorey” is that the Duke of Normandy recruited blond, golden-haired men for his army from Scandanavia, hence the name Dore (or Doré). The original Dorey men in Jersey may have been sent there as part of the garrison to man Mont Orgueil Castle.
"The reason for recruiting the men from Scandanavia may have been that, like the Popes in Rome who hired Swiss guards, the Duke did not trust men from the local population in Normandy to safeguard his interests.
"My name is Dorey and my DNA analysis by Ancestry indicates that approximately 50% of my DNA still originates from Scandanavia and nearby regions, which tends to confirm the legend for the origin of the name Dorey. It would also suggest that families of the garrison at Mont Orgueil were part of a rather close community that tended to intermarry."

The name is common in Normandy and there is a record of Willelmus Dorey in 1198.

Early records

  • Sire Jehan Dorey, Johan Dorey and Richard Dorey are listed in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.
  • Catherine Dorey was born in St John in 1494 and married Clement (or Thomas) Pinel
  • Marie Dorey was born in Trinity about 1564, the daughter of Thomas Dorey (1535- ) and Michelle Gallichan
  • Guillaume Dorey was born in St Saviour about 1573 and married Catherine Falle
  • Jean Dorey was born in St Ouen about 1612
  • Matthew Dorey was born in Trinity about 1634.
  • Elizabeth Dorey (1660- ) Trinity, d of Mathieeu (1634- ) m Helier Lempriere
  • Magdelaine Dorey (1684- ), Catherine Dorey (1681- ) and Anne Dorey (1701- ) were daughters of Philippe and Esther Ahier
  • Sara Dorey (1702- ) was the daughter of Pierre and Sara Le Cornu
  • Jean Dorey (1501- ) m (1525) Marie de Gruchy. Their son Helier was born in 1526.

The Dorey family is also found in Guernsey

Variants

  • Dorey, 1668
  • Doré
  • Dorée
  • Dorel
  • Doret
  • Dorez
  • Le Dore

Family records

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Family trees



Three different Jean Doreys




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Church records

Tips for using these links



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Family histories




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Newspaper records


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Great War service



Sons of Thomas Dorey and Gertrude Emily Giffard

  • Edgar Alick Dorey (1886-1976) (Tr) husband of Olive Kathleen Giffard, Sergeant, RGA
  • Lionel Gifford Dorey (1883- ) (St H) Captain RGA


  • George Binet Dorey (1888- ) (Tr) son of John George and Esther Jane, husband of Phyllis Coles, Lieutenant, Canadian Field Artillery
  • John Dorey (St H), Sergeant, Canada
  • Joshua Emile Dorey MC (1891- ) (St Mt) son of George Dorey and Ann Le Gros, husband of Lillian May Mallet, Lieutenant, Canadian Infantry, wounded twice. Military Cross citation, April 1918: 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his platoon with remarkable coolness, and when held up by a machine gun, he at once gave the order to rush the post, with the result that the whole crew of ten men were killed and two guns captured. His leadership and splendid dash during the attack were most outstanding.'

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc


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Family wills



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Burial records


Family properties

Family businesses

  • Thomas Dorey was agent for Scottish Provincial Assurance in Hill Street

Family album

The Dorey family of St Martin in 1905

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Family gravestones

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  • Almorah cemetery

  • Almorah cemetery

  • Les Quennevais cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • St Mary’s Church cemetery

  • Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • St John’s Church cemetery

  • St John’s Church cemetery

  • St John’s Church cemetery

  • Surville Cemetery

  • Surville Cemetery

  • St Lawrence

  • The grave of Great War casualty Elias George Dorey at Ruisseau Farm Cemetery, Belgium

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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