Filleul

Filleul family page

Edna Myrtle Filleul (1914-1998)

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Filleul family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Filleul, 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,
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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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Early Filleul arms researched by Julian Wilson

Later family arms

Origin of Surname

This is a French word for godson. Various spellings have been used over the years, and still are in parts of France, but only ‘Filleul’ survives in Jersey today.

Early records

The first Filleul to settle in Jersey was Thomas Le Filleul, former Vicomte de Coutances, who came to the island in about 1430. The Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 contains two Filleuls.

Payne's Armorial of Jersey

Thomas Le Filleul, of the parish of Pirou, Vicomte of Coutances, settled in Jersey circa 1430, from whom descend all of this name in the island. This Thomas, in 1435, sold his French estates to his brother, .John Le Filleul, and thus ceased to have any connection with the Duchy of Normandy.

The family is an offshoot from the family of Filleul, Seigneurs of Freneuse, in Normandy, from which source also spring the Seigneurs de Chesnets and other branches of the same name, noticed by French genealogists. The first of the branch of Freneuse, Durand Filleid, was, as several of his descendants subsequently became, Mayor of Rouen in 1268, and was at this early period, certified as belonging to an ancient and considerable family of that city. Amauri Filleul, Seigneur of Freneuse in 1353, was, with John Mustel, sent into England as hostage for the deliverance of King John of France, where both died in exile.

Among several branches, of the family, the most important, that of St Clement, is represented by the Rev Philip Filleul, Vice-Dean of Jersey, and Rector of St Helier.

Arms

As borne by the Rev Philip Filleul: Argent, on a head, gules, three escallops, or. Impaling : argent, a digamma, sable, for Valpy.

Crest : An anchor, or, cabled ppr.

Motto: Facta non verba.

Variants

• Filleul, 1668
• Filleuel 1607
• Fileul 1528
• Fillieul
• Lefilleul
• Filleux
• Fillieux
• Fileut
• Filleut

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Jean Filleul
• Descendants of Jean Filleul - 2, a different Jean
• Descendants of Jacques Filleul, a separate descendancy in Grouville and St Clement
• Descendants of Jacques Filleul - 2, and a descent from another of Jacques' sons, but believed to be inaccurate in early generations
• Descendants of Jacques Filleul - 3, a different descendancy from the above, correcting errors
• Descendants of Jean Filleul - 3 Added 2021

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Family histories

• Filleul scrapbook
• Elie Filleul
• Filleuls Past and Present
• Don Filleul's railway memories
• James William Filleul
• Philippe Filleul, Rector of St Helier

Great War service

• Filleul family members who served in World War 1

Occupation records

• Filleul Occupation identity cards

Family wills

• Filleul family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Filleul burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• Le Boulivot, Grouville

Family businesses

• Emelie Filleul was trading in fancy goods and toys at 12 Halkett Place in the 1840s.

Family photographs

A 1782 book owned in 1853 by P C Filleul: Could this be the Philippe Charles Filleul, baptised in Grouville in 1840?

Record of Mary Filleul's sorcery trial in 1625

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

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