Sanders/Saunders

Sanders and Saunders family page

This family has been present in Jersey since the early 17th century Desiree Langlois, nee Saunders Record Search Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Sanders and Saunders family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Sanders and Saunders, 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 Sanders and Saunders 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

Although apparently distinct families in Jersey, allowing for confusion over spelling in some family records, both these names derive originally from Alexander, the 'defender'; or alternatively from someone who worked with sand.

Early records

Saunders is by far the more common of the two names in Jersey, and first appeared in 1602, although there was only a scattering of baptisms over the next two centuries, before the family became established in the early 19th.

Sanders did not appear until the 1780s, but immediately George and Elizabeth Laurens established a family group.

Neither name is listed in our Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames, indicating that they do not appear in early official records.

Variants

• Sanders
• Saunders

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of George Sanders
• Descendants of Edward Sanders
• Descendants of Mark Saunders
• Descendants of John Sanders

Church records

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Sanders

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

Saunders

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

Great War service

• Saunders family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

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

• Sanders/Saunders burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

The Queensland blacksmith's of James Frederick (Fred) Saunders in 1894. Born in Jersey the son of Thomas and Mary, nee O'Rourke, he emigrated to Australia and married Mary Furlong in Warwick, Queensland, in 1873

• W Saunders was shown in an 1834 trade directory as the first of a succession of chemists at 4 King Street. This would have been William, born in St Helier in 1791, the son of William and Elizabeth Feltham
• Thomas Saunders was a draper at 10 King Street in 1841
• English confectioner Mark Saunders was at 41 Halkett Place in the 1850s, 6 Halkett Place in the 1860s and '70s ...
• ... and at 42 King Street in the 1880s, followed by his daughter Jane
• William Henry Saunders was a hosier at 47 King Street from 1885 to 1903 and then at No 55 King Street until the 1930s.
• Nurseryman Bernard Saunders was at 19 Halkett Place in 1851

Family photo album

Rogues gallery

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

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