Bell burial records 1820-1978

Bell burial records

The records of Jersey's seven major undertakers from 1820 to the late 1970s are held by Jersey Archive and have been digitised and indexed by archive staff and volunteers. We previously provided family page listings of the records of Croad's, a single business, but have now combined all the records into a single new index and are progressively updating the lists in our family pages. The full records are available to subscribers to the Archive's online service. The entries within the volumes give vital family history information such as the name and age of the person buried, their immediate relations, the place and date of death, as well as place of burial - cemetery, location of grave and even the coffin's depth. Some records also give details of the deceased's occupation or public positions held. The first records, from 1867, in the Croad Livre de Remarques The books can be viewed on line or downloaded. Each set for each undertaker has an index which subscribers can view online or download. It can be a lengthy process searching for records because there are separate indexes for each funeral director and most do not give a date of burial. This means that several volumes may have to be accessed when searching for details of an ancestor's burial. Although the Archive website has a search facility which allows a search for individual names, the results can include all manner of other records in their catalogue and, unless the exact spelling of a name is known, the required record will not be found. Jerripedia has not only created a full A-Z index for all 66,000-plus records, with the year of burial included for the benefit of our users who have an Archive subscription, but we are adding indexes of records, such as this one, for individual families included in our 1,200-plus family pages, which include all the island's most important families. This link is to the Archive website page containing links to the seven sets of records. The page will open for everybody but only subscribers will be able to view the records Some records use page numbers and sequential record numbering. Most of the Archive indexes do not include dates. All our indexes and lists give dates, and having identified the undertaker and date of funeral from this listing you can then easily find the volume containing the record. The Archive indexes contain some very unusual spellings for common Jersey surnames. We are cross-checking these with the images of the undertaker's books and finding that most are errors of transcription, which can be corrected for our index, although the process of checking against the books is very time-consuming. Some of the handwriting in the books is very difficult to read, and there may also be errors in the entries. We are correcting names when we are entirely satisfied that a common surname has been wrongly entered or transcribed. Variations of common names which may be correct are included at the end of family name indexes, and have been left in the full A-Z indexes. Our advice is the same as it is with any other set of records included in Jerripedia. If you don't find an ancestor where you expect to, look for variations in spelling and, perhaps for names with or without prefixes, such as Le, La, L', de and du. Variations may appear next to records for names spelt in the standard form; they may also be some way out of sequence. Please note that the work of updating all our family page burial lists to include all funeral directors is not yet complete, and some pages still link to an incomplete listing for a single business. Note also that there were other undertakers in business over the years whose records are not included in this collection. For families with a significant number of records we have created a separate page, but when there are only a few records the link may be to an A-Z index page, and you will need to scroll through the alphabetical listing to find the family you are interested in. Burial records: Our main index to undertakers' registers, cemetery records and gravestone images

Page number	Record number	Forenames	Surname	Maiden name	Previous married name	Associated names	Notes	Year of burial	Funeral director
	5869	Alexander	Bell					1857	Picot
35		Alice	Bell	Henriette				1928	Sinatt
	13110	Amelia	Bell					1872	Picot
391	85	Charles Thomas Herbert	Bell					1871	Sinatt
	20144	Elizabeth Anne	Bell					1950	Croad
273		Enid Clare	Bell	Thompson				1934	Sinatt
	15772	Eveline Marion	Bell					1934	Croad
399	105	Frances Caroline	Bell					1871	Sinatt
	11239	Hannah	Bell	Laffrey				1867	Picot
243		Jane Ann	Bell	Trench				1930	Sinatt
56	30	Jessie Eleanor	Bell	Wilson				1877	Croad
	20624	John	Bell					1952	Croad
432	16826	John Richard	Bell					1937	Croad
153		Mary	Bell					1971	Pitcher
	12922	Mary Charlotte	Bell					1923	Croad
	16512	Moreen Patricia	Bell					1936	Croad
90		Mrs	Bell				Widow of Capt Bell of NSW	21/02/1849	Sinatt
158		Mrs	Bell					02/11/1849	Sinatt
	12427	Robert	Bell					1922	Croad
22		Roger Murray	Bell					1969	Pitcher
	12046	Sarah Holmes	Bell					1920	Croad
329b		Violet Lilian	Bell	Sullivan				1968	Le Quesne
73	106	William	Bell					18/11/1873	Sinatt
40a		William John	Bell					1965	Le Quesne