Bichard

Bichard family page

Mrs Bichard photographed by Henry Mullins

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Mr Bichard photographed by Henry Mullins

Origin of Surname

One suggestion is that the name comes from the French for little doe.

Alternatively it is supposed to be of Germanic origin from bic (beak) and hard (strong).

Early records

This name is found in the Extente of 1331, and the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 contains two Bichards.

Sebastian Bichard was born in St Ouen in 1565.

The Guernsey branch was started by two brothers, Germain and Brandeyn Bichard, sons of John, who left Jersey and settled in Guernsey in about 1575. One settled in St Sampsons and the other in St Saviours. Another brother, John, seems to have followed them to Guernsey a few years later. Later on Brandeyn's younger son Pierre, left St Saviours to join his uncle Germain at St Sampsons. Now their descendents can be found throughout the Channel Islands.

Variants

• Bychard
• Bichard, 1299
• Bischert, 1607
• Bischard, 1528
• Bichart, 1479

Family records

Jersey family trees

• Jean Bichard: 17th-20th centuries
• Jean Bichard 2: 18th-19th centuries
• Jean Bichard 3: 16th-18th centuries

• Sebastian Bichard: 16th-18th centuries
• Sebastian Bichard 2: 16th-18th centuries

Church records

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

Family histories and biographies

• The Bichard family

Great War service

• Macallister Seth Bichard (St L), Private, Machine Gun Corps
• William Francis Bichard (1873- ) (St H) son of William and Jane, Mercantile Marine

Occupation records

• Bichard Occupation identity cards

World War 2 casualties

• Donald Philip Bichard

Family wills

• Bichard family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Bichard burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• Le Manoir de Malorey, St Lawrence
• Cap Verd, St Lawrence
• Woodville, St Peter
• Seaview, St Lawrence

Family businesses

• Bichards of Charing Cross

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  In 1803 Capt Jean Bichard advertised a sale of house contents at St Aubin in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey
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  John Bichard and Le Sueur took over the manufacture of soap in Charing Cross from Mr de Jersey in 1824, as advertised in the Chronique de Jersey ...
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Family album

Edna (1894-1943), Bernice (1895-1992) and Beulah Bichard (1896-1971), the three eldest daughters of John Philip (1861-1944) and Ellen Louise, nee Le Bellier (1871–1936)

This wedding is described as that of 'Jack and Flo Bichard'. We think it must have been the 1910 marriage in St Lawrence of John Philip Le Brocq and Florence Bichard. John was a 21-year-old farmer, son of another John, and Florence was the 33-year-old daughter of Jean

The wedding of Snowden Le Cornu and Elsie Bichard

The Bichards of Jersey in Shanghai

William Francis Bichard was born in Jersey in 1873 the son of William Bichard (1843-1896) and Jane Mary, nee Luce (1849-1905). He went to sea as a young man and by the age of 22 had obtained his Second Mate's certificate for international voyages.

He married Emmeline Elizabeth Hammond (1875-1948), who was born in Hertfordshire. The date and place of their marriage is not known, but by 1902 William and Emmeline were living in Shanghai. How they came to settle there is unclear, but William continued his career in the Merchant Navy and eventually became a ship's master.

The couple's three children, Geoffrey (1902-1944), Phyllis (1904- ) and Kenneth (1906- ) were born in Shanghai, which had developed from a small fishing village into the largest port in China, with a population of one million when the Bichards lived there. The whole family was well travelled, and researchers have found records of voyages to and from England, and across the Pacific, and family photographs show them all together on board ship.

The children were educated in Shanghai - Kenneth attended the HJC School before being sent as a boarder to Weymouth College, where he was a prefect in his final year in 1924.

Geoffrey, the eldest, died in Burma during World War 2. Phyllis married banker Charles Holland, and Kenneth married Hope Elston Newman, daughter of Dorset Vicar the Rev William George Newman.

Eventually William and Emmeline returned to live in England and William died in Guildford in 1937, his wife surviving him for another 11 years.

Emmeline Elizabeth Bichard, nee Hammond, outside her home in Shanghai, probably with her mother

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  William Francis
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  William and his family
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  Emmeline
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  William
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  William in Shanghai
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  William in Shanghai
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  William
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  The Bichard family on board ship
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  The Bichards in Shanghai in 1911
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  The three Bichard children on board ship
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  Geoffrey in Shanghai in 1917
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  Geoffrey in 1919
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  Geoffrey in Shanghai in 1923, aged 21
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  Geoffrey
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  Phyllis
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  Kenneth in Shanghai in 1919 before leaving for boarding school in England
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  Kenneth, third from the right of the front row

Phyllis and Kenneth in 1918

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  Mcallister Seth Bichard, from St Lawrence, who served in the Machine Gun Corps in the Great War
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  Donald Philip Bichard (1914- ) Killed in WW2
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  Annie Clara Bichard, nee Ferbrache (1895-1985)
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  Ada Mary Le Prevost, James Bichard and Marion Joyce Wood
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  Snowden Le Cornu (1913-2002) and Elsie May, nee Bichard
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  A curfew pass issued to John Bichard during the Occupation as a Member of the Honorary Police

Family gravestones

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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St Peter parish cemetery
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  St Brelade parish cemetery
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Links

• Guernsey Bichard web pages

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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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