Bennett burial records 1820-1978

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Bennett 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
1 Ann Bennet Noel 1942 Pitcher
254 and 255 John Bennet Better known as "Major Bennett" 1890 Sinatt
3944 John Bennet 1853 Picot
21483 Kathleen Caroline Bennet 1956 Croad
14018 Ralph Chreistopher Bennet 1875 Picot
Bennett 14/03/1829 Sinatt
10110 Adelaide Emily Bennett 1866 Picot
18517 Alice Maud Bennett Fauny 1943 Croad
60 76 Alice Maud Bennett infant 13/08/1873 Sinatt
68 Amelia Ann Bennett Duval 1916 Sinatt
3065 Ann Bennett nee Bennett 1851 Picot
171 50 Ann Florence Bennett 19/03/1875 Sinatt
514 Annie Bennett infant 04/08/1863 Sinatt
4596 Arthur Henry Bennett 1896 Croad
Benjamin Bennett 25/03/1938 Conery
9941 Benjamin Alfred Bennett 1914 Croad
17861 Benjamin Wilfred Bennett 1941 Croad
15a Bernard Edward Bennett 1962 Le Quesne
15b Bernard Edward Bennett 1962 Le Quesne
7296 Catherine Bennett Fennelly 1905 Croad
1838 Catherine Ann Bennett Wishart 1887 Croad
60 Cecilia Anna Bennett Furber 1952 Pitcher
20430 Charlotte Amelia Bennett Le Bourg 1952 Croad
11010 Daniel Harrox Bennett 1867 Picot
15b Doris Bennett Harvey 1965 Le Quesne
11646 Dorothy Ruby Bennett 1919 Croad
308 Edmund William Bennett 20/08/1851 Sinatt
2677 Edward Bennett 1850 Picot
475 16991 Edward Albert Bennett 1938 Croad
9 120 Edward Francis Bennett 16/9/1872 Sinatt
449 Edward Hooper Bennett 20/06/1862 Sinatt
409a Eleanor Maud Bennett née Gates 1974 Pitcher and Le Quesne
13225 Eliza Bennett Mourant 1925 Croad
553 - 554 126 Elizabeth Bennett 22/8/1878 Sinatt
248a, 248b 75 Elizabeth Anne Bennett 1903 Sinatt
18206 Ellen Mary Bennett 1942 Croad
87 6 Emmanuel Bennett 1866 Sinatt
15803 Ernest Albert Bennett 1934 Croad
147a Ernest William Bennett 1947 Le Quesne
2926 Frances Ada Bennett 1890 Croad
304a Francis Bennett 1962 Le Quesne
9782 George Gregory Bennett 1913 Croad
173 52 George William Bennett 22/03/1875 Sinatt
76 Gordon Bennett 1936 Sinatt
1953 Grace Sophia Bennett Partridge 1887 Croad
3506 Harold Edward Bennett 1892 Croad
57 100 Harriet Bennett Rouget 1877 Croad
99a, 99b 51 Henry Elkins Bennett 1899 Sinatt
116a Hubert Rowland Bennett 1968 Pitcher
Infant Bennett 14/08/1938 Conery
James Bennett 12/02/1954 Conery
57 123 James Bennett 1878 Croad
12196 James Lawrence John Bennett 1869 Picot
18478 John Bennett 1943 Croad
121a, 121b 81 John Bennett 1899 Sinatt
4266 Joseph Richard Bennett 1854 Picot
9932 Josiah Bennett 1865 Picot
56b Katerina Brynychova Bennett Brynych 1958 Le Quesne
198 Marie Bennett Burnside 1930 Sinatt
11118 Mary Bennett Slater Mugford 1867 Picot
463,464 Mary Elizabeth Bennett Quested 1924 Sinatt
6563 Mary Jane Bennett Hamon Parker 1902 Croad
13145 Matilda Harriet Bennett Main 1924 Croad
3770 Nora Kate Bennett 1893 Croad
3144 Richard Bennett 1851 Picot
Robert Bennett 15/10/1937 Conery
3782 Robert Patrick Bennett 1893 Croad
99a Ronal Roy Bennett 1955 Le Quesne
7034 Sarah Bennett Bruce 1904 Croad
335 Sarah Bennett 08/05/1860 Sinatt
4800 Snowden Robert Bennett 1896 Croad
11618 Sophie Bennett de La Mare 1919 Croad
283 111 Thomas Bennett infant 1869 Sinatt
14848 Thomas Daniel Bennett 1930 Croad
12012 Unnamed boy Bennett Stillborn son of James Bennett and Elizabeth King 1869 Picot
156 Wilfred Harold Bennett 1969 Pitcher