Pepin

Origins of surname

This is a name which goes all the way back to Charlemagne, whose father was Pepin the Short. It started as the Germanic personal name Pipin, and became the family name Pepin, most notably in the Savoie region of eastern France, but also in Normandy.

Early records

The first Jersey Pepins probably came from Normandy, certainly as early as the late 16th century, and possibly earlier. They have never been particularly numerous in the island, but nearly 200 baptisms and births are on record, up to the 20th century. The name now appears to have died out in the island, however.

Online information is sketchy and it was not until October 2015 that we received an outline tree, which we were able to expand using church records, particularly for Grouville, where the majority of the family has been concentrated. Since then two further trees have been added.

The family line can be traced in Jersey from 1587 almost to the present day, but there is at least one separate family which arrived from the Saint Malo area in about 1800, and gave the island a Jurat, Stuart Philip Pepin, in the 1960s.

Variants

• Pepin 1668
• Pepis 1668
• Pepon 1607

• Pipon, not a variant, but a different name with different derivation

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Jean and Marie Pepin
• Descendants of Julien Pepin
• Descendants of Philippe Pepin

Church records

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

Notable family members

• Stuart Philip Pepin (1901-1975), manager of Jersey Gasworks during the German Occupation and Jurat of the Royal Court from 1964 until his death

Great War service

• Arthur Raymond Pepin (1892- ) (St O) son of John and Louisa, OV, Sub-Lieutenant RNVR
• Cyril Le Brocq Pepin (1896- ) (St P) son of Philip Josue Pepin and Anna, nee Le Brocq, Private, Labour Corps
• Helier Blampied Pepin (1874- ) (St H) son of Helier and Jane, Private RASC
• Kenneth Pepin (1900- ) (St O) son of John and Amy, OV, Private, London Regiment

Family wills

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

Burial records

• Pepin burial records 1820-1978

Family album

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  Philip Josue Pepin (1860- ) in the 1880s

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  Siblings Alfred (1858- ), Lydie Rachel (1855- ) and Priscilla Pepin (1863- ), with a servant in the background, probably in the late 1880s

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  Stuart Philip Pepin in the 1930s, manager of the Jersey Gasworks in World War Two and later a Jurat

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  Alfred Pepin ...

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  ... Lydia Rachel Vautier, nee Pepin (1855-1929) his sister

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  Lydia Rachel Vautier, nee Pepin ...

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  ... Rachel Pepin, nee Le Gros, their mother (1831-1915)

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  Elizabeth Jeanne Pepin (1837-1929) with her great-grandchildren

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  Louisa Emma Pepin (1852- )

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

Family gravestones

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

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  St Ouen parish cemetery

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  St Ouen parish cemetery

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  Philadelphie cemetery

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  Philadelphie cemetery

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  Philadelphie cemetery

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

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