Sohier

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Charles Sohier married Rachel Poingdestre in St Martin in 1745


Record Search


Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Sohier family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Sohier, 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.

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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.

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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

Sohier was a personal name very common in old French romances.

It is a common family name in Normandy, more frequently spelt Soyer. In medieval times the given name was often spelt Soier and Sehier. It may come from the Germanic Sighari, which means victory (sig-) and army (-hari).

Robinet Sohier is recorded at Bayeux in 1376

Early records

Sohier baptisms are found as far back as 1599, but the following individuals are known to predate that year:

  • Nicholas Sohier was born in Jersey in 1545 and married a daughter of Ambroise Le Breton and Genette Bisson
  • Catherine Sohier was born in St Saviour in 1567 and married Jean Anthoine
  • Marie Sohier was born in St Helier in about 1565 and died there in 1633. She married Uric Messervy in 1588 and they had a son Nicolas, born in 1600
  • Elizabeth Sohier was born in Jersey in about 1589 and married Pierre Gaudin in 1607

The Soyer family is known in Guernsey

Variants

  • Sohier, 1607
  • Soyer

Family records

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Family trees


Three versions of the same tree, which has a number of unresolved issues


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Family histories



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Church records

Tips for using these links



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Great War service



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Family wills



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Burial records


Family businesses

Place names

  • Mont Sohier, St Brelade, Jersey

Family gravestones

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  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Surville Cemetery

  • St Brelade Church cemetery

  • Great War casualty Pvt Bernard Sohier's grave at Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison

  • The grave of Great War casualty Harry Luman Sohier at Villers Hill British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain, near Gouzeaucourt

  • Bernard Sohier's family memorial in Mont a l'Abbe Cemetery,Jersey


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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