Sinel

Sinel family page

The origins of this surname are not known, but the first Sinel in Jersey is believed to have been a Huguenot refugee from Normandy

Bessie Sinel and her husband

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Sinel family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Sinel, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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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.

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Origin of Surname

The first Sinel appears to have come to Jersey from Normandy - see family tree and history below - having been born in Conde sur Vire and left France as a Huguenot refugee. Contrary to what was previously believed, there are still Sinels resident in that area - see discussion tab.

The name Siné, of which this could be a diminuitive, is known in the south Brittany department of Morbihan, as someone coming from the commune of Séné

Family records

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Family trees

• Descendants of Jean Sinel

Family histories

• Jean Sinel of Jersey - 1731
• Sinels in New Zealand
• Joseph Sinel, archaeologist and historian
• Leslie Sinel, historian and compiler of German Occupation diary
• Bessie Sinel, Penang missionary
• George Sinel, transported convict

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Sinel family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

• Sinel : Edith Winifred , widow of John William Hoar, of Denehurst, Millbrook, St Lawrence - 10/Nov/1978 , 01/Dec/1978 , D/Y/B1/290/25
• Sinel : Frederick Charles , of Font Romeu, Westbourne Avenue, Bagatelle, St Saviour - 03/Mar/1948 , 02/Apr/1955 , D/Y/B1/29/29
• Sinel : Gladys Bertha Alice , widow of Charles George Warren, of Seabright, Gorey, St Martin and formerly of 17, Queen's Road, St Helier - 10/Nov/1958 , 27/Jun/1972 , D/Y/B1/176/31
• Sinel : Joseph , ... - 01/Aug/1927 , 22/Aug/1929 , D/Y/A/89/153
• Sinel : Joseph William , St Helier - 17/Nov/1897 , 08/Aug/1927 , D/Y/A/87/114
• Sinel : Laura Edith , 2 St Marks Crescent, St Helier - 17/Jun/1935 , 03/Sep/1935 , D/Y/A/98/2
• Sinel : Mary Elizabeth , of Trunnah Farm, Thornton, near Blackpool, England - 13/Jul/1949 , 02/Feb/1953 , D/Y/B1/17/50
• Sinel : Matilda Margaret , nee Viney, South Lynne, Woodville Avenue, St Saviours Road, widow - 07/Nov/1921 , 05/Feb/1923 , D/Y/A/83/25
• Sinel : Priscela Selina , 58 Stopford Road, St Helier - 15/Nov/1938 , 03/Feb/1939 , D/Y/A/104/31

• Sinel burial records 1820-1978

Family album

Alfred Charles Webb Sinel was well travelled, He was born on Ascension Island in 1857, the son of Alfred George Davis Sinel, of Jersey, and Elizabeth Webb, of London, who married in London in 1854. His father was serving in the Royal Marines and his elder brother Edwin was also born on Ascension Island. His sisters Alice were born in Jersey in 1862, Emily Julia in Brisbane in 1865; brother George in Brisbane in 1867; twin sisters Charlotte Elizabeth and Caroline Elizabeth in Victoria in 1870; Martha Charlotte in Victoria in 1872, Mary Louise in Victoria in 1875. By 1880 Alfred was back in England marrying Maria Julia Eldridge (with him in the photograph taken in Montreal), or, depending on which family history is believed, the marriage took place in Montreal in 1885. Their first son Charles was born in Montreal in 1886, followed by daughter Elizabeth Maria in Jersey in 1888, when Alfred was an auctioneer. Two years later he was a tea merchant, and by 1901 he had moved to London, where he died in 1925

Family businesses

• John Sinel ran the Caesarea Auction Mart at 25 King Street in the 1850s

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