Le Seelleur

Le Seelleur family page

Alice Louisa Le Seelleur, born in South Shields, the daughter of a Jersey seaman, and returned with him to Jersey, where she died

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Origin of Surname

Balleine suggests that le seeleur is old French for the leaper ('the original bearers of the name may have been athletes, but more probably professional tumblers') but Jean Arthur, in her history of the family says that the name is derived from 'he who seals or applies the seal'.

The Breton surname Le Sciellour is derived from sciell or sceau, meaning 'seal'. This would tie in with the Jersey variant Le Scelleur.

There are, however, a number of other suggestions for the origin of the name, and a large number of spelling variants, according to a comprehensive family history

Early records

There are records for Le Seelleur baptisms in St Martin from 1697. It is sometimes suggested that the original Jersey spelling was Le Scelleur and that Le Seelleur emerged some time later, but allowing for the extreme difficulty of deciphering the entries in the early St Martin registers, it appears that both spellings have existed side-by-side for over four centuries.

Transcriptions of early St Martin baptisms by the Channel Island Family History Society are listed under the heading 'Le Seleur, Seeleur, Scelleur', suggesting either that all three variants were found over a 40-year period, or that the names were impossible to discern with any degree of certainty.

Variants

• Le Seelleur
• Le Seeleur
• Le Scelleur
• Le Seleur

Family records

Jersey family trees

The two main Le Seelleur trees, which overlap and need to be studied together. They incorporate elements of the further five trees

• The Le Seelleurs of Le Villot
• Descendants of Jehan Le Scelleur

• Descendants of David Le Seelleur and Jeanne Norman
• Descendants of Thomas Le Seelleur
• Descendants of Francois Le Seelleur
• Descendants of Jean Le Seelleur - 2
• Descendants of Dents Le Scelleur

Deleted trees, absorbed into the two main trees

• Descendants of Collas Le Seelleur
• Descendants of Jean Le Seelleur

Family histories

• Le Seelleur of Le Villot

Church records

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Great War service

• Le Seelleur family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Le Seelleur family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Le Seelleur burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

• George Le Seelleur was a chemist at 23 King Street from 1912 to 1919
• G Le Seelleur, perhaps the same George, was in business at 16 King Street in 1900
• A Mr Le Seelleur was making boots and shoes at 20 Queen Street in the 1830s
• Ship owner and Captain George Le Seelleur lived at 31 Broad Street in the 1850s

Occupation curfew cards

Curfew passes issued to John, Thomas and Wilfred Le Seelleur during the Occupation as members of the Honorary Police ^[1]

Family album

The family of Capt Thomas Le Seelleur and his second wife Myra Cowley: Vera, Jack, baby Marie and Cyril

Sisters Kathleen (1905-1978) and Avice Le Seelleur (1909-1989), daughters of Walter (1875-1952) and Florence Mary, nee Fosse (1875-1934). Kathleen never married and lived nearly all her life at 18 Clarendon Road. She worked for Mr Keene-Miller at Jersey Airways for many years and later at Le Brun's Bakery. She was the only one of the sisters who learnt to drive. As a young woman she contracted TB and was sent to Greece for four years to recover

In his Great Western Railway uniform, Edward John Perchard Le Seelleur, born in St Martin in 1863, and his wife Alice Louisa, nee Prowse, born in Brixham, Devon in 1863. Both came to Jersey when their sons Edmund and Harold moved here and both died during the Occupation

Family gravestones

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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

Notes and references

1. ↑ These cards are held by Jersey Archive. Visit The Archive online catalogue for more information. A subscription may be needed to view some of the site's content
2. ↑ When Harold died he left £2 million to the poor of the island
3. ↑ His parents were Jean Le Seelleur and Mary Anne Perchard of Anne Port Farm