Audrain family history
Audrain family history
Adapted from a family history produced by Brian Helier Rive in 2003 and sent to the Channel Island Family History Society
Fron Brittany in the 1850s
The Audrains arrived in Jersey in the late 1850s from Brittany as farm workers. The family is believed to have originated in Combourg, a small town on the edge of a lake to the south of St Malo [1]
On arrival in the island they based themselves in Trinity and St John. Later members of the family moved to St Helier in the 1870s.
Pierre and Jeanne Audrain lived at Clair View Farm, Trinity.
Nine Audrains saw service in the Great War. Ernest was wounded and Edward died from his wounds. Sydney and John Olivry were also killed.
Emile enlisted in the Dorset Regiment in 1910 as a boy drummer. He served in France throughout the war. His fluent French probably saved his life, as he was called upon to act as interpreter at headquaters. He was a humourous man with a great sense of fun.
Lizzie remained unmarried because her boyfriends were killed in the Great War, and one died in the Titanic disaster.
Ada lived to the great age of 101 and had eight children.
Family trees
- The family tree
- A longer tree which shows that the family did not come from Combourg, but from St Brandan, in Cotes d'Armor. It was the wife of one of the Audrains born in Jersey who came from Combourg.
Notes and references
- ↑ This is wrong. The family came from St Brandan, in Cotes d'Armor. It was the wife of one of the Audrains born in Jersey who came from Combourg, which is south of St Malo
