Martin

Martin family page

This family name dates back to the beginning of the 13th century in Jersey Lela Louisa Martin (1890-1975) daughter of John and Maria Jane, nee Coutanche, married Paul Riedel (1873-1943) in Niagara, New York, in 1907 Record Search Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Martin family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Martin, 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 Martin family, please contact editorial@jerripedia.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 comes from the personal name spelt the same, and ultimately from Mars, Roman god of war.

Early records

The name appears in many early Jersey records, dating back to 1200, and first appears in church records in 1610 when Marie, the daughter of Pierre Martin and Marie Bisson was baptised at St Peter. Although this is a very common English surname, it is also said to be, in its various forms, the most popular French surname. Undoubtedly the early family members to arrive in Jersey came from France, as did later immigrants in the 19th century, including Pierre Martin, whose descendant lines are shown below.

Variants

• Martin, 1200
• Martyn 1309
• Martin dit Maignan 1461-78
• Martini, a separate family in Jersey, but with the same derivation
• De St Martin, a separate family

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Louis Martin
• Descendants of William Martin
• Descendants of Pierre Martin
• Descendants of Pierre Martin - 2 NEW

Church records

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

Great War service

• Martin family members who served in World War 1

Occupation records

• Martin Occupation identity cards

Family wills

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

• Martin burial records 1820-1978

Businesses

• John Martyn was a watchmaker at 4 Broad Street in the 1840s

Family album

An 1892 photograph of Peter John Martin (1856- ) and his wife Sarah Harriet, nee Syvret (1856- ), and their daughters Lilian and Hilda. The couple married in St Lawrence in 1882 - Picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe

Family gravestones

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

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