Bailhache
Bailhache potato merchants
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Origin of Surname
This essentially Norman surname is said to be derived from baille + hache, referring to a man who carried a hatchet, or an axe, but it might also refer specifically to an executioner.
Early records
The name is recorded in the Extente of 1331. It was known in Norman England as early as 1154.
Payne's Armorial of Jersey
This family is of high antiquity in Normandy, where its members were Seigneurs of Rauville, Biesville, Longueval, La Corderie, etc. The Norman stem is traced from Raoul de Baillehache, living near Caen in 1305, where the name is and has been variously spelt, Ballehache, de Bellehache, de Bailhache, de Baillhache, de Balliehache, and de Baillehache.
The Jersey family had been long settled in the parish of Saint Lawrence, where it had held offices of trust, and whence branches afterwards migrated to the parishes of St Ouen and St Helier. [1] Its members were merchants of celebrity before and during the reign of Charles I and II. Clement Bailhache, who died in 1819, was a Jurat of the Royal Court.
All the early Bailhaches, featured on the trees below, lived at L'Etacq. The Descendants of Jacques Bailhache lived at Bas de L`Etacq, the immediate vicinity of the slipway now known as Le Port, the Descendants of Matthieu Bailhache lived about 100 yards away at La Porte, and the Descendants of Clement Bailhache lived at Hastingue Farm, a little to the east, on the same road. From one or other of these three stems there arose branches, whose members lived further afield, such as elsewhere in St Ouen, in St Brelade, St Mary and St Helier.
- Arms — Azure, a lion rampant, or; in chief a crescent between two mullets of the last
- Crest — A ship, ppr
- Motto — Vive memor lethi fugit horae
Variants
- Bailhache, the commonest form in Jersey
- Ballehache
- de Bellehache
- de Bailhache
- de Baillhache
- de Balliehache
- de Baillehache
- Belhaché
- Baillache
- Baillehaiche
- Bailliache
- Bellehache
- Belhache, the commonest form in France today
Family records
Family trees
These trees were reviewed in 2024
- Clement Bailhache: 17th-20th centuries
- Clement Bailhache 2: 17th-20th centuries
- Clement Bailhache 3: 19th-20th centuries
- Jacques Bailhache: 16th-18th centuries
- Jean Bailhache: 18th-20th centuries
- John Bailhache: 18th-19th centuries
- Matthieu Bailhache: 17th-20th centuries
Church records
- Bailhache baptisms in Jersey
- Bailhache marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Bailhache marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Bailhache burials in Jersey
Family histories and biographies
- Bailhache emigrants to Nova Scotia, Canada
- Jean Bailhache of St Ouen (1787 - 1857) - emigrated to Ohio, USA where he was a judge, newspaper proprietor and associate of Abraham Lincoln.
- Sir Philip Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey 1995-2009
- Sir William Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey 2015-2019
Newspaper records
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Emigrant to Canada
Family homes
- La Guillerie, St Ouen
Family album
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1899 Evening Post advert -
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The Rev Philip Bailhache (1833- )
Family businesses
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Bailhache and Sons of St John, builders, carpenters and painters - and burials - 1940 -
Philip Bailhache's merchant's business occupied a large block between the Esplanade and Seaton Place in the mid-19th century -
1880 advert -
1881 advert -
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey -
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In 1824 John Bailhache, of St Mary, advertised chain cables and anchors for sale in Chronique de Jersey -
Philippe Bailhache advertised seed for farmers at 44 Esplanade in Chronique de Jersey in 1850 ... -
... the same Philippe, or perhaps his son, was advertising guano in 1870
Family gravestones
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Mont a l’Abbe cemetery -
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Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California -
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St John’s Church cemetery -
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St John’s Church cemetery -
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St Lawrence -
St Lawrence
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Notes and references
- ↑ This statement is misleading as the Bailhaches of St Ouen were well-established there at the start of the earliest church register (1634). It is much more likely that the now-extinct St Lawrence family, who were merchants, originated in St Ouen.
