Vaudin

Vaudin family page

A previously unidentified Mrs Vaudin, photographed by Henry Mullins in the 19th century, has been recognised by a Jerripedia user in Australia as the same person she saw in a family photograph album in Scotland recently.

She was Eliza Gordon Macalister who was born in Glenbarr, Kintyre, Scotland, in 1836. The photograph below of her wearing the same dress, is in an album kept by her brother's family at Glenbarr. She went to Jersey in the 1850s to join her mother and stepfather, who were living there, met and married Charles Vaudin, a physician. The photograph was probably taken at about the time they married in 1860. Charles and Eliza are in one of our Vaudin family trees

Eliza in later life

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Vaudin family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Vaudin, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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Pre-1500 arms, researched by Julian Wilson

Arms of Charles Vaudin

Arms of John Vaudin

Origin of Surname

Surprisingly this old Jersey surname is not mentioned in the Rev George Balleine's work on the derivation of names.

It is a French medieval surname and appears in the Jersey Assize Roll of 1309. It is suggested that Vaudin and Gaudin are different spellings of the same name in France and that they are derived from an early French personal name Gaudin, which itself originated with the Germanic Waldin, a diminuative of Waldo. Alternatively it might come from the Germanic Godino, which translates as "son of God".

Another suggestion is that it is derived from the former region of Gaudon now the departements of Vosges and Franch-Comte.

Early records

Vaudins appear in Jersey's baptism records from 1560 onwards.

Jenette Vaudin married Collas Le Mesurier at St Pierre du Bois, Guernsey in 1578

Payne's Armorial of Jersey

It appears that the family of Vaudin, identical in origin with the Norman family of De Vauldyn d'lmecouii, des Loges, des Malmaisons, and De Perrette de Verdaveyne, was settled at St Helier so early as 1292; for by an Exchequer Roll of that date is learned that Ranulph Yaudin of this parish served on a jury under Robert Lysset and the Prior of Wenlock, Justices of our Lord the King.

The name has been variously written Yauldyn, De Yauldin, and Yaudin; and it is by some said to have been anglicized De Walden.

Geoffroy Yaudin was one of the jury sworn to ascertain the king's revenues in the parish of Trinity, as appears by the Extente of 1331. Sire Michael Yaudin, a Roman Catholic priest, fell in leading his countrymen to repel an invasion of the French, who had landed in Bouley Bay in 1549.

A branch of the family has been settled for several centuries in Guernsey.

Variants

• Vaudin, 1299
• de Vauldyn c1550
• Vaudyn
• Waudyn 1309
• Vaudinet
• Vauden
• Vaudon
• Vaden
• Vautin
• Vauldin
• Vauldyn
• Gaudin

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Nicolas Vaudin, this tree has been superseded by the following tree
• Descendants of Samuel Vaudin
• Descendants of Ranulfus de Vauldin
• Descendants of Philippe Vaudin
• Descendants of Edouard Vaudin
• Descendants of Raulin Vaudin
• Descendants of John Vaudin
• Descendants of Jean Vaudin Renamed, corrected and expanded in 2019

Church records

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

Great War service

• Vaudin family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

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

• Vaudin burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• L'Aiguillon, Grouville

Family businesses

Family album

What a fabulous picture of a Vaudin wedding: Doris Elsie (1900-1947), daughter of Charles Edward Vaudin and Emma Jane, nee South, married William Harry Taylor (1891- ) at St Matthew's, Southampton in 1929. Charles Edward was born in Jersey and married Emma in her home town, Southampton, in 1900. Doris was the first of their five daughters and four sons, all born in Southampton

Magistrate John Vaudin presides in the Police Court

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