Malzard

Malzard family page

Olive Malzard in 1915

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Families just don't any longer pose for photographs like this outside their home on St Helier's busy ring road. This was the Malzard family, outside their terrace house in Rouge Bouillon. Jerripedia editor Mike Bisson recalls that they were quite close cousins of his father's family, linked by marriage to the Twynams, who came to Jersey from Hampshire in the 1850s. The picture probably shows head of household Don Malzard (baptised John Abraham Malzard) in the hat on the right, his wife Rosina, nee Twynam with baby daughter Olive and elder daughter Rosina (Birdie), and was taken in 1897 or 1898. Also in the picture is Rosina's widowed mother Mary Twynam. Son John, born in 1892, is not in the picture. He was also known as Don in later life. Birdie married Percy Le Masurier but they had no children and after she was widowed she moved in with Olive, who never married, in a different part of Rouge Bouillon. John and Rosina Malzard moved house several times with their family. The 1891 census shows them at 26 Clearview Street, two doors away from Rosina's mother. John's occupation was solicitor's clerk. By 1901 they had moved to 56 King Street, where John was a tobacconist and cigar merchant. They can only have been in Rouge Bouillon for a few intervening years.

Origin of Surname

Malzard was the name for the round pot in which cider was set among the embers. It suggests to the Rev George Balleine that the original holder of the surname may have been somewhat tubby.

However, this is a common English surname, derived from Kirkby Malzeard, a village in Yorkshire to the west of the small city of Ripon. The place name means 'The church belonging to Malzeard', a reference it is thought to a Norman-French family, probably from Mallissard, a village in Northern France, who held lands in the area in the 12th century.

There are only a handful of Malzards in France today, predominantly in Manche in Normandy, and Ile-et-Vilaine, which is the adjoining Brittany Department.

Early records

The name is found in the Assize Roll of 1309, so has been established in Jersey for at least 700 years, probably a century longer.

• Helier Malzard, born in St John about 1567, married (1590) Mathie Sarre (1567- ), daughter of Edouard and Marie Hue
• Jane Malzard was born in Jersey about 1540 and married Nicholas Durell
• Symon Malezard, baptised in St John in 1597 was the son of another Symon and Jeanne Arthur. He was Constable of St John in 1525 and had a daughter Collette (1520- ) m (1540) Thomas Pinel (1515- ), s of Clement and Catherine Dorey
• Elie Malzard, born in Trinity in 1596, married Elizabeth Le Masurier
• Collette Malzard, born in St John in 1520 was the daughter of Symon, born about 1494. She married Thomas Pinel in St John in 1540

Variants

• Malzard, 1668
• Malzars 1607
• Malsars, c1510
• Maleshars 1515
• Malezars 1370
• Malesars, 1255
• Le Malesars 1309
• Malesarz (1227)
• Malsard
• Malzeard
• Malzred
• Malser
• Malesard

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of George Malzard
• Descendants of Pierre Malzard, a Malzard and Messervy tree
• Descendants of Pierre Malzard and Jeanne Hacquoil
• Descendants of Philip Malzard
• Descendants of Pierre Malzard - 2 NEW

There is considerable overlap between the next three trees and they should be studied together

• Descendants of Abraham Malzard
• Descendants of Michel Malzard
• Descendants of Abraham Malzard - 2 Added 2016

• Descendants of Michel Malzard - 2: a different descendant line from the same start Added 2018
• Descendants of Jean Malzard - 2

There are question marks over the early generations of most of the trees above. In attempting to resolve them in 2021 we decided to create an entirely new tree, which takes the Malzard line back to the beginning of the 17th century in St John. While the tree should still be studied in conjunction with the other trees, we are confident in its generational links which have been checked against church registers, some of which have been updated since the earlier trees were added to the site. This new tree also corrects errors in several online trees

• Descendants of Jean Malzard Added 2021

Church records

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

Newspaper records

• Mollie Malzard was a regular offender in 1848
• Death of Snowdon Malzard in Canada, reported in the Evening Post of 1920

Great War service

• Malzard family members who served in World War 1
• The story of RSM Snowdon Malzard's war service Added 2021

Family wills

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

• Malzard burial records 1820-1978

Family album

Imagine Jerripedia editor Mike Bisson's excitement when he read the message on this postcard sent to John Malzard in 1910. The sender, John's daughter Birdie , was Mike's paternal grandfather's first cousin (so Mike's first cousin, twice removed). 'I remember Birdie very well', says Mike. 'When she was widowed, she moved in with her sister Olive. They lived together for many years in one of those houses on the north side of Rouge Bouillon which lost its front garden when the road was widened, and is now accessed by steep diagonal stairs from the road below. My mother used to take me when she visited Birdie and Olive in the 1950s. I recall that they had a lovely grandfather clock, which I took a fancy to, and they promised to leave to me in their wills. They also had a model of Jersey's General Hospital, in a glass case, which I think was given either to the Hospital or La Société Jersiaise. Somehow it was my mother and father who got the clock, and it then passed to my brother. I enjoy the challenge of identifying and trying to trace the families of Jersey recipients of postcards which appear on auction sites, and this one proved easier than most. It did, however, encourage me to have another go at tracing the Malzard ancestry, which had previously proved elusive. The availability of family records for the second half of the 19th century enabled me to bridge the gap from John Abraham Malzard to earlier trees. Sadly, although the handwriting skill so evident on the cards on this page, descended as far as my father, it somehow failed to reach me'

Three Malzard sisters: probably irene (1890-1974), Rebecca (1891-1962) and Edna (1896-1919)

Gordon Malzard and family

Family businesses

A French band from Fontenay, visiting for a Concours musicale, outside Nos 54 and 56 King Street, probably in 1911, when tobacconist John Mazard was in business at No 56 and watchmaker and jeweller Henry Ricordeau was established at No 54

Family gravestones

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Tips

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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