Le Sueur

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This surname dates back to at least 1309 in Jersey, and a century earlier in Normandy

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Le Sueur family portrait


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Origin of Surname

Le Sueur is old French for shoe maker.

Early records

The name is long established in Jersey, appearing in the Assize Roll of 1309. It is common in Normandy and examples have been found in records dating back to 1198

Although Le Sueur records only start appearing in the parish registers at the end of the 16th century and early in the 17th, all in St Helier, it is known that the family was established in Trinity some time before this, although the first records in that parish are from the 1620s. Benjamin Le Sueur was born in Trinity, perhaps in 1558, and married Sara Gruchy. They had two daughters, both named Marie, the first born in 1611 and the second in 1620, who died in 1689 and married Nicolas Cabot, son of Thomas and Jeanne Bisson

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Payne's Armorial of Jersey

Des Bois, in his great Armorial of France, says of this name that it belongs to a "famille tres ancienne en Normandie, qui s'est, dans tous les temps, comme aujourd'hui, conciliée I'estime generale de tons les nobles et gens de distinction de son canton. Elle ne s'est alliée qu'a des maisons nobles."!

The advent of the local branch into Jersey was probably caused by one of the earlier political or religious disturbances in France, which drove many members of ancient French families to seek an asylum in the island. Here it became connected with many of the best houses of Jersey, and amongst others, with those of Le Hardy, Poingdestre, Pipon, Hilgrove, Dumaresq, Messervy, and Gibaut.

One of its most noteworthy members, was the late Peter Le Sueur, Constable of St Helier, whose public services and energetic patriotism were so fully recognised by his countrymen, as to cause them to erect to his memory the only monument existing in the island, to record its obligations to the unremitting exertions of a public servant. This monument, a plain obelisk, in the Egyptian style, was erected in 1857, in one of the principal thoroughfares of St Helier (Broad Street). Branches of the family are represented by the Rev Abraham Le Sueur, Rector of the parish of Grouville, and by Joshua-Philip Le Sueur, of H M Customs.

Arms

As borne by the Rev Abraham Le Sueur: Azure, a chevron between two crescents, in chief, and a rose in base, or.

  • Impaling : Or, a cross, formée, between four eagles, displayed, sable, for Dixon
  • Crest : A bezant, charged with a rose, gules
  • Motto : Sure

Variants

  • Lesueur
  • Le Sueur, 1597
  • Le Suor, 1377
  • Sutor (Latinized)
  • Le Suour 1309

Family records

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Family homes

Family photographs

  • A self portrait by Evening Post photographer Ronnie Le Sueur, taken in 1938

  • Ronnie Le Sueur on a post-war visit to London for an RAF reunion was studying the window of a Bond Street camera shop looking for a Leica lens for the Evening Post

  • Eileen Le Sueur, 1990

  • J J Le Sueur

  • Dick Le Sueur

  • The Rev Joshua Le Sueur

  • Peter Le Sueur

  • John Thomas Le Sueur c1890

  • Elizabeth Le Sueur

  • A family picnic for Le Sueurs and Picots

  • Members of the Le Sueur and Picot families on an outing

  • Susanna Isabella Le Sueur c1890

  • Adolphus Albert Le Sueur (1847-1906) emigrated to New Zealand

  • Elizabeth Godfray, nee Le Sueur

George Le Sueur with a prize bull which was exported to Australia

  • Beatrice Emily Le Sueur

  • Beatrice Emily Le Sueur

  • Beatrice Emily Le Sueur

  • Beatrice Emily Le Sueur

  • Emily Elizabeth Le Sueur, nee Renouf (1849-1930)

  • Emily Le Sueur, her husband, daughter and granddaughter

  • Le Sueur family in New Zealand

  • Frank Le Sueur, c1865

  • Winter Le Sueur

  • Robert and Peter Le Sueur, photographed by their father, Evening Post photographer Ronnie Le Sueur, with their Easter eggs in 1953

  • Betty Bois and Eileen Le Sueur wearing and making Jersey bonnets

  • Sydney Walter Le Sueur, photographed in 1916 at the age of 18. He was the son of Horace John and Maria Elizabeth Cooper, of St Helier

  • A postcard sent to S Le Sueur, by Ella, in 1905

  • A letter received by R W Le Sueur from a serviceman during the Great War

  • Sidney Le Sueur

  • Renowned naturalist Frances Le Sueur

  • Frances Le Sueur

  • Alice Amelia Le Sueur (1865- ) married engraver William Fenn (1858- ) at St Brelade on 6 September 1887. Alice was the daughter of Philip Le Sueur and Sophia Amelia Le Bailly

  • Sophie Le Sueur, photographed by Ernest Baudoux

  • Clarence George Le Sueur, 1941

  • Emily Georgina Le Sueur, nee Le Cocq, 1941

  • Eunice Marie Le Sueur, 1941

  • Alfred John Le Sueur (1852- ) and his wife, Eliza Ann, nee Pepin (1860- ). The couple married in St Brelade in 1879 and had four sons and three daughters over the next 19 years

  • Susanna Isabella Le Sueur, nee Jenne. She was born in 1857 and married John Thomas Le Sueur in St Helier in 1875. They later emigrated to Canada

  • Susanna Isabella Le Sueur, nee Jenne

  • Susanna Isabella Le Sueur, nee Jenne, photographed in Montreal

  • A Le Sueur family outing in 1956

  • A different Le Sueur family in 1958. Frank Le Sueur and his family emigrated to New York and this photograph was taken on their first return trip to Jersey

This photograph was described as being the Le Sueur family, taken in Jersey in 1883. It is certainly the Le Sueur family - Adolphus Albert, his wife Emily, nee Renouf, and children Beatrice Emily, Clarence Adolphus, Ivan James, Constance and Eunice - but it could not have been taken in 1883, because Eunice was not born until 1890. And it is also unlikely that it was taken in Jersey. Adolphus and Emily were both born in the island, but married in London, where Adolphus was working as a commercial traveller. After the birth of Beatrice, Clarence and Ivan the family emigrated to New Zealand, where Constance and Eunice were born. The photograph matches one already in our collection, clearly from the same sitting, and identified as having been taken in New Zealand
Eileen Le Sueur and her bovine friends
Kathleen Le Sueur, nee de Carteret, with her brother Donald and his children Roger and Margaret. The photograph was taken by Kathleen's husband Ken

Occupation curfew cards

Curfew passes issued to John, Herbert and another John Le Sueur during the Occupation as members of the Honorary Police [1]

  • John Le Sueur

  • Herbert Le Sueur

  • John Le Sueur

Rogues gallery

  • At the age of 51 in 1915, Alfred Le Sueur, of St John, was sentenced by the Royal Court to two years hard labour for having carnal knowledge of a girl under 13 years of age

  • ... his wife Elizabeth Jane, nee Saunders, was convicted of aiding and abetting him and also sentenced to two years hard labour.

Family businesses

  • A button used by tailors Le Sueur and Le Scelleur

  • Francois Le Sueur

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  • 1891

  • A Le Sueur, of Fairfield, Trinity, practised as a vet in 1892, specialising in horses and cattle

  • 1905

  • 1852

  • 1905

  • 1886

  • 1895 advert for cycle business launched by Charles Le Sueur at Cheapside

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  • 1862

  • 1861

  • 1946

  • 1862

  • Le Sueur Cycles, Halkett Place

  • Several members of the Le Sueur family had businesses selling bicycles. It is not clear whether C P Le Sueur was related to the owners of the Halkett Place business, or to Charles, who was in business at Cheapside

  • 1896

  • An account sent by coal merchants F Le Sueur and Son in 1900

  • 1881 advert

  • An advert for a Le Sueur business in Auckland, New Zealand

  • 1873

  • 1873

  • 1927

  • 1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey

  • Barrels from Francis Le Sueur, advertised in Nouvelle Chronique in 1889

  • 1908

  • 1852

  • Le Sueur's warehouse on Commercial Buildings

A booklet of photographs promoting Peter Le Sueur's 'fancy repository' at 'Charring' Cross (sic) and the sale of Chadwick's Super Six Cord. This sewing cotton, manufactured in Bolton, was advertised as 'The only cable that Will successfully tow Cleopatra's Needle

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Family gravestones

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  • Memorial to Ernest Carrington Le Sueur in St Saviour's Church

  • Le Sueur family memorial in St Saviour's Churchyard

  • Clement George Le Sueur's grave in the Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard, Laventie

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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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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
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