Lucas

Lucas family page

This name dates back to the 13th century in Jersey and is still present today Frances and Adeline Lucas Record Search Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Lucas family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Lucas, 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 Lucas 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

Origin of Surname

St Luke was spelt Lucas in a medieval bible.

It probably derives from the ancient Greek given name Loucas, meaning the man from Lucania, formerly a region of Italy. This was a name associated with the various Christian Crusades. Returning warriors often gave their children names associated with the biblical region, and this was one of them.

However, the surname can also be of French locational origins, from the town of Luick in Flanders. An example in this respect being that of Lucas de Luke, who is recorded in the Pipe Rolls of the city of London on 1274.

The first recorded spelling of the family name is that of Euerard Lucas. This was dated 1153, in the register of the Knight Templars of England during the reign of King Stephen.

Early records

The name is found in the Short Inquisition of 1274 and Jehan Lucas in in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550, but it does not appear in baptism records until 1712, suggesting that an earlier family died out and there were new immigrants to the island to start a new family line.

The name is also common in Guernsey

Variants

• Lucas, 1274
• Lucaud

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Charles Lucas
• Descendants of Jean Lucas
• Descendants of Mathurin Francois Lucas Added 2016

The three trees below cover the same descendancy but the third is believed to be by far the most accurate

• Descendants of Pierre Lucas
• Descendants of John Lucas
• Descendants of Pierre Lucas - 2

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Lucas baptisms in Jersey
• Lucas marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Lucas marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Lucas burials in Jersey

Great War service

• Lucas family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Lucas family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Lucas burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

Family album

Ministers and lay preachers of the Methodist French Circuit in 1867, including Thomas Lucas. The picture was taken by Asplet and Green a year after they set up in business at 18½ Beresford Street and also includes P Tourgis, Philippe Amy, P Le Gresley, Thomas J Desprès, Mr Ahier, Mr Benest, P Garnier, Mr Hamon, D Bisson, G Le Masurier, Abraham Pallot, J Syvret, P G Adair, G Skelton, T Binet, T Billot, Mr Vautier, E de Carteret, W Le Duc, P Norman, H Collas and J Le Cornu

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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

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