Ellis burial records 1820-1978

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Ellis burial records
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The records of Jersey's seven major undertakers from 1820 to the late 1970s are held by Jersey Archive and have been digitised and indexed by archive staff and volunteers. We previously provided family page listings of the records of Croad's, a single business, but have now combined all the records into a single new index and are progressively updating the lists in our family pages. The full records are available to subscribers to the Archive's online service. The entries within the volumes give vital family history information such as the name and age of the person buried, their immediate relations, the place and date of death, as well as place of burial - cemetery, location of grave and even the coffin's depth. Some records also give details of the deceased's occupation or public positions held.

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The first records, from 1867, in the Croad Livre de Remarques


The books can be viewed on line or downloaded. Each set for each undertaker has an index which subscribers can view online or download.

It can be a lengthy process searching for records because there are separate indexes for each funeral director and most do not give a date of burial. This means that several volumes may have to be accessed when searching for details of an ancestor's burial. Although the Archive website has a search facility which allows a search for individual names, the results can include all manner of other records in their catalogue and, unless the exact spelling of a name is known, the required record will not be found.

Jerripedia has not only created a full A-Z index for all 66,000-plus records, with the year of burial included for the benefit of our users who have an Archive subscription, but we are adding indexes of records, such as this one, for individual families included in our 1,200-plus family pages, which include all the island's most important families.

This link is to the Archive website page containing links to the seven sets of records. The page will open for everybody but only subscribers will be able to view the records

Some records use page numbers and sequential record numbering. Most of the Archive indexes do not include dates. All our indexes and lists give dates, and having identified the undertaker and date of funeral from this listing you can then easily find the volume containing the record.

The Archive indexes contain some very unusual spellings for common Jersey surnames. We are cross-checking these with the images of the undertaker's books and finding that most are errors of transcription, which can be corrected for our index, although the process of checking against the books is very time-consuming. Some of the handwriting in the books is very difficult to read, and there may also be errors in the entries. We are correcting names when we are entirely satisfied that a common surname has been wrongly entered or transcribed. Variations of common names which may be correct are included at the end of family name indexes, and have been left in the full A-Z indexes.

Our advice is the same as it is with any other set of records included in Jerripedia. If you don't find an ancestor where you expect to, look for variations in spelling and, perhaps for names with or without prefixes, such as Le, La, L', de and du. Variations may appear next to records for names spelt in the standard form; they may also be some way out of sequence.

Please note that the work of updating all our family page burial lists to include all funeral directors is not yet complete, and some pages still link to an incomplete listing for a single business. Note also that there were other undertakers in business over the years whose records are not included in this collection. For families with a significant number of records we have created a separate page, but when there are only a few records the link may be to an A-Z index page, and you will need to scroll through the alphabetical listing to find the family you are interested in.

  • Burial records: Our main index to undertakers' registers, cemetery records and gravestone images
Page number Record number Forenames Surname Maiden name Previous
married name
Associated names Notes Year
of burial
Funeral director
162a Albert Reginald Ellis 1967 Le Quesne
10694 Alfred George Ellis 1916 Croad
8434 Charles Conway Ellis 1909 Croad
179 40 Charles William Ellis 1877 Croad
1951 Charles William Ellis 1887 Croad
302 Charlotte Ellis 15/07/1851 Sinatt
20110 Doris Holbrook Ellis Ogier 1950 Croad
421 Elizabeth Jane Ellis 22/10/1852 Sinatt
2318 Elizabeth Mary Ann Ellis Collas 1888 Croad
109A Emma Maud Ellis Myers 1975 Pitcher and Le Quesne
92a Eric Rothery Ellis 1970 Le Quesne
65 George Ellis 1974 Pitcher and Le Quesne
22034 George Johnston Ellis 1958 Croad
36 George Robert Ellis 1976 Pitcher and Le Quesne
303 Georgina Florence Ellis Stuart 1941 Sinatt
1823 Hannah Ellis Parker 1887 Croad
178 42 Harriet Ellis Rouget 1868 Croad
18887 Harriet Ann Ellis 1945 Croad
178 80 Henry James Ellis 1868 Croad
179 15 James Ellis 1872 Croad
14231 James Ellis 1876 Picot
91 John Ellis 1939 Sinatt
3484 John Ellis 1892 Croad
2640 John Chichester Ellis 1850 Picot
8337 John Harry Ellis 1909 Croad
4412 John Phillips Ellis 1854 Picot
499 Mary Ellis Harding 13/04/1863 Sinatt
274 Mary Ellis Trice 1931 Sinatt
482 Mary Ann Ellis 16/09/1853 Sinatt
60b Mary Jane Esther Ellis Godel 1938 Le Quesne
71a Maud Mary Ellis Brophy 1970 Pitcher
121b Miss Ellis 1918 Le Quesne
31 Percy Woodford Ellis 1961 Pitcher
14757 Philip Ellis 1930 Croad
8726 Philip John Ellis 1910 Croad
20055 Phyllis Gertrude Ellis Coutanche 1950 Croad
6561 Robert Ellis 1859 Picot
3593 Samuel Chichester Ellis 1892 Croad
310a Sidney Eric Ellis 1968 Le Quesne
105b Susan Jane Ellis Coutanche 1950 Le Quesne
1 Thomas Ellis 6/7/1854 Sinatt
15633 Walter James Ellis 1933 Croad
458 16925 Wilfred Ellis 1937 Croad
939 William Ellis 1883 Croad
William Ellis 19/12/1947 Conery
204b William Boase Ellis 1964 Le Quesne
2104 William Henry Ellison 1888 Croad
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