Pipon family page
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The Pipon family has been established in Jersey since the beginning of the 14th century, and possibly earlier, much earlier than the mid-15th century date suggested by J Bertrand Payne in his noted 19th century genealogical work, Payne's Armorial of Jersey. The Pipons have held such important fiefs as La Hague and Noirmont and the excellent propery named from its location, La Moye. Members of the family have held many important positions in the island's government, and have achieved notable success in the wider service of the armed forces and civil administration of the British Isles Robert Pipon (1813-1872), Midshipman, later Lieutenant, RN
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Origin of Surname
Pipon may be a form of Pepin, the Teutonic Peipo, the name of the famous Mayor of the Palace who made himself King of France. However, in Jersey Pepin and Pipon represent two distinct families.
Early records
The earliest published Island record of the name Pipon is in the Assize Roll of 1309. The name is found in the Extente of 1331 and the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 includes Collas, Sire Guillaume, Helier and Johan. This contradicts the information given in the Armorial (see below).
Church baptism records start in St Brelade in 1561 and that parish accounts for 179 of the total of 291 baptisms up to 1842.
Payne's Armorial of Jersey
From an early period this family held the estate called La Moye, which is not, however, a seigneurie, which they inherited in the 16th century from an heiress of the Oranges. More lately, they held the seigneurie of Noirmont. Both estates are in the parish of St Brelade. Elias Pipon purchased Noirmont Manor, having obtained the customary permission by Letters Patent, from Lord Carteret in 1695. On this fief originally existed a priory which gave name to the estate, and which was subject to that of St Clement, and a cell to the Abbey of Mont St Michel. In the 15th century the monks actioned the tenants of this fief, claiming the privileges of having their mill repaired, their tithes collected, and their wood and wine delivered by their lay subordinates.
The earliest mention found of Pipon in Jersey is in 1467, when John Pipon was a Jurat of the Royal Court. In 1552, Sire Guille Pipon was one of the procureurs of the parish of St Peter, of which he was also, probably, Rector. Robert Pipon collected and transcribed a large number of interesting local acts and charters, which are now preserved in the Landsdowne Collection at the British Museum.
In the parish church of St Brelade occur a large number of mural tablets to the memories of members of both branches of the Pipon family, many of whom had attained rank in the Army and Navy.
Variants
The only spelling found in Jersey family records is Pipon, but the following have been found elsewhere
- Pipon, 1331
- Pypon
- Pippon
- Pypon
- Pepon
- Pepin is a distinct family with different name derivation
Family records
Although there has been considerable research into the Pipon family, resulting in four substantial trees and three shorter ones (see below), it has proved impossible to establish links between the three main family branches identified. The tree below account for virtually all the 291 Pipon baptisms in Jersey from 1561 to 1842, suggesting that the common ancestors, if there were any, will be found in the 15th century or earlier, and that the different branches of the family developed on fairly narrow lines before church registers started.
Family trees
- Descendants of Nicolas Pipon (1437)
- Descendants of Jean Pipon (1550)
- Descendants of Jean Pipon
- Descendants of Thomas Pipon
- The Pipons of Noirmont
- Descendants of Thomas Pipon (1599)
- Descendants of Guillaume Pipon Added 2016
Church records
- Pipon baptisms in Jersey
- Pipon marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Pipon marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Pipon burials in Jersey
Family histories and biographies
- A Pipon family history
- The Pipons of St Peter and Noirmont, a 1907 article by the Rev J A Messervy
Four articles on James Pipon of Noirmont
- James Pipon of Noirmont in the Commissariat
- James Pipon 1805-1808
- James Pipon and Sir Arthur Wellesley
- James Pipon - a postscript
- Major-General Henry Pipon, Governor of the Tower of London
- Jacques Pipon, Constable of St Brelade
- John Pakenham Pipon, Captain RN
- Josue Pipon, Lieut-Bailiff
- Philippe Pipon, Seigneur of Noirmont and Constable of St Brelade
- Philip Gosset Pipon, C.B., General
- Philippe Pipon, Captain RN
- Thomas Pipon, Constable of St Brelade
- Thomas Pipon, author of 1771 Code and Attorney-General and Lieut-Bailiff
Newspaper records
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- La Chaumiere, St Lawrence
- L'Aleval, St Peter
- La Hague Manor, St Peter
- Noirmont Manor
- Brook Farm, St Brelade
- Elliston House, St Aubin
- La Moye, St Brelade
Family album
A postcard, sent to Miss Pipon in Stopford Road in 1890, posted from the Schweizerhof Hotel in Luzern. This predates by some five years the first postcard sent from Jersey. An 1886 street directory shows Miss Pipon living at 2 Wellington Villas, Stopford Road, and the 1881 census confirms that she was Jane Pipon, born in 1818
Family gravestones
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