Le Claire

Le Claire family page

This family came to Jersey from the south of Brittany

Miriam Florence Le Claire, nee Freeman

Record Search

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

This name is of Breton origin and started as a personal name, Clair. It is common in the Morbihan department of south Brittany. It is a variant of the Normandy name Le Clerc. Clair was probably a member of the clergy, but could also have been someone with a lay clerical role. Clerc, meaning 'clerk' or 'cleric' was applied to a wide range of functions both in the church and outside in France in Medieval times.

Early records

The name first appears in Jersey records in the 1880s, and it is likely that the first member of the family to reach Jersey was a farmworker.

Variants

• Le Clair
• Le Claire
• Le Cleare
• Le Clerc, Normandy version. Same pronunciation but treated as a separate Jersey family

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Pierre Le Claire
• Descendants of Eugene Marie Le Claire

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Le Claire baptisms in Jersey
• Le Claire marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Le Claire marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Le Claire burials in Jersey

Le Claire family members who served in the Great War

• Louis Joseph Le Claire, Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles
• Alfred Peter Le Claire (St My), driver, Royal Field Artillery
• Edward Robert Le Claire (St P), Gunner, Royal Field Artillery
• Eugene Marie Le Claire (St H), Private RASC
• Francis Le Claire (St P), Driver, Royal Field Artillery
• Wwlliam Le Claire (St P), Private, Hampsphire Regiment

Family wills

This will created by a member of the Le Claire family is now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, date and reference number 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

• Francis Le Claire, driver in the Royal Field Artillery - 24 May 1946, D/Y/A/116

• Le Claire burial records 1820-1978

Family album

1942 wedding of Lester Eugene Le Claire and Mildred Emma May Connor at St Paul's Church, St Helier. Very few wedding photographs from the Occupation years were this impressive

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