Origin of Surname
This is a Jersey family name which goes back to at least the middle of the 15th century. Although not a common name in Normandy today, it is certainly of French origin. It is unusual in that it is derived from a female rather than a male personal name - Geva, a short form of Genevieve.
Early records
Guillaume Gavey, see tree below, was born in St Saviour about 1440.
Variants
- Gavey, 1607
- Gave, 1528
- Gavet
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Gavey baptisms in Jersey
- Gavey marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Gavey marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Gavey burials in Jersey
Biographies
- Sir John Gavey
- Philippe Gavey, emigrated to New England
Great War service
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Family photograph album
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Sir John Gavey
Jane Gavey, 1890
Jeanneton Hotton, nee Gavey
A Gavey wedding
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Family businesses
- John Gavey was in business as a grocer at 15 Halkett Place in the 1840s
- English tailor Emma Gavey and her son Philip, a silversmith, were at 15 Queen Street in the 1870s
- Perfumer John Thomas Gavey was at 17 Queen Street in the 1860s
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Family gravestones
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It's worth looking at the Cavey gravestones because it can be very difficult to distinguish between 'C' and 'G' on the old stones.
Gavey, Trinity Church
Trinity Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
Sion cemetery
St Brelade Church cemetery
St Brelade Church cemetery
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
The grave of Great War casualty Arthur John Gavey at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais
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
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