Anderson

Anderson family page

Maj-General Alexander Anderson, who retired to Jersey and died there in 1963

Record Search

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

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Origins of surname

This name, found originally in both England and Scotland, means 'son of Andrew'.

Early records

The name Anderson first appeared in Jersey church records in St Brelade in 1713, but it was some 50 years later before two families started to become established. Over the next 100 years there were many Anderson baptisms but it is very difficult to link any of the families and it is believed that there was a substantial number of male immigrants.

It is noteworthy that we have been unable to trace any children of nine Anderson marriages recorded between 1712 and 1931.

The one tree we have received is for a family originating in Kent.

Variants

• Anderson

Family records

Family trees

• William Anderson: 17th-20th centuries - reviewed 2024

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Anderson family members who served in the Great War

• John Victor Cortlandt Anderson, Captain in Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides, killed in action 1918
• George Anderson (1891- ), Stoker 2nd class RN, HMS Victory II
• Joseph Ennis Slater Anderson (1898- ), Sub-Lt RN, HMS Renown

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc

Occupation records

• Anderson Occupation identity cards

World War 2 casualties

• James Anderson

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Anderson 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 1948, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

• Helen Anderson née Kidd, Les Creux Cottage, St Brelade - 5 January 1931, D/Y/A/91
• William Anderson of Velora Cottage, Roussel Street, St Helier, bequeaths to the poor of St Helier 10s To William Anderson Mortimer two Spanish Government Bonds and three Russian 5% Bonds To Isabella Hunter three Imperial Turkish 6% Bonds - 28 September 1875, D/Y/A/38
• Carl Anderson, 3 The Terrace, St Helier 7 October 1915 27 October 1915 1 November 1917 - 19 December 1923, D/Y/A/83
• John Anderson, Great Union Road, St Helier - 23 April 1924, D/Y/A/84
• John Anderson, Les Creux Cottage, St Brelade - 7 May 1938, D/Y/A/102
• George Anderson, Queens Road, St Helier - 24 March 1948, D/Y/A/119
• John Anderson, West View, Mont-a-L'Abbé, St Helier, D/Y/A/117

Burial records

• Anderson burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

• Charles Thomas Anderson was a chemist at 23 King Street in the 1850s and '60s
• Watchmaker J Anderson was at 1 Queen Street in the 1830s

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  Watchmaker J Anderson of Charing Cross advertised in The Loyalist in 1825
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  1948

Family album

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  Thomas Kirwan Anderson (1927-2020) and Amelia Adelaide Grace, nee Connor
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  An unidentified Mrs Anderson, photographed around 1880 by Ernest Baudoux
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  Colonel Anderson, RA, photographed in the mid-19th century by Henry Mullins

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

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  Anderson - Almorah cemetery

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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