Le Mercier

Le Mercier family page

This is one of several surnames of French origin, not all variants of each other, which means 'merchant' Emily Le Mercier, nee Jegou, and Florence Record Search Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Le Mercier family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Le Mercier, 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. 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 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. A--B--C--D--E--F--G--H--I--J--K--L--M--N--O--P--Q--R--S--T--U--V--W--X--Y--Z If you can help with information about the Le Mercier family, please contact editcontact@theislandwiki.org, using Jerripedia as the subject of your email. We are particularly interested in information which will help create further family trees, family histories and photographs A blue link anywhere in the text will lead you to another page with more information on this family

Origins of surname

This surname is synonymous with Le Marchand, Le Marquand and other similar island names, although not considered a variant because the Le Mercier families are quite distinct. It is derived from the old French mercier for merchant.

Early records

The name first appears in the Trinity church registers at the beginning of the 18th century, when five children of Francois Le Mercier and his wife, whose name is not known, were baptised.

Although we have been able to link the majority of early baptisms to the two trees below, it is clear that there were several other Le Merciers who came to Jersey from France and married local girls during the 18th and 19th century.

The family is still present in Jersey today.

Variants

• Mercier
• Le Mercier
• Lemercier

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Francois Le Mercier
• Descendants of Alexandre Le Mercier
• Descendants of Leonard Antoine Le Mercier Added 2016

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Le Mercier family members who served in World War 1

• Walter Charles Le Mercier (1882-1918) son of Pierre and Elizabeth and husband of Emily Kate, Corporal RE, killed in action
• John Albert Le Mercier (St J), Sapper RE

Two brothers, sons of Peter Charles Le Mercier, son of Peter, and Victoria Anne Ecobichon, daughter of Jules

• Peter Charles Le Mercier (1893- ) (Tr), ex-RMIJ, Private, Middlesex Regiment
• Philip Le Mercier (1894- ) (Tr), Private, Dorsetshire Regiment

• Walter Henry Le Mercier (1897- ) (St L) son of John and Annie, Ordinary Seaman RN
• William Thomas Le Mercier (St H), Private, Labour Corps

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Le Mercier family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers 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

• George Le Mercier, 17 Byron Road, St Helier - 18 February 1948, D/Y/A/119
• Marie Le Mercier, widow of Louis L'Aisné 24 January 1747 - D/Y/A/7

Burial records

• Le Mercier burial records 1820-1978

Family gravestones

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  Almorah cemetery

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  Almorah cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  St John’s Church cemetery

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  Surville Cemetery

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  Surville Cemetery

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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence

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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence

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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence

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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