Bree

Bree family page

A Mrs Bree photographed by Ernest Baudoux

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Bree family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Bree, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

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New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origin of Surname

The name is probably derived from the old French for white poplar, suggesting that the original holder of the name lived near a grove of these trees.

However, it may have a derivation specific to Jersey and mean 'a Breton' because the early Jersey poet Wace refered to the Bretons as Les Brez.

Early records

Bree is not found in the Assize Roll of 1309 nor the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 but a Symon Bree was born in St Martin about 1500 and had sons Richard and Edouard.

Variants

• Bray, 1528
• Bree, 1500
• Braye

Family records

Family trees

There is considerable overlap and duplication between these trees, most of which are believed to link back to Symon Bree. Some changes were made in 2021 and further links added

• Symon Braye: 16th-18th centuries
• Edouard Braye: 17th-20th centuries
• Richard Braye: 17th-20th centuries
• Symon Bree: 16th-17th centuries
• Edouard Bree: 17th-19th centuries
• Philip Bree: 18th-20th centuries

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Family histories and biographies

• Bree family notes from Gene Hutson
• Bree family history
• Touzel John Bree
• Philip Ernest Bree: Dairy farmer and politician

Great War service

• Bree family members who served in World War 1
• Clifford Bree - Town Hall presentation
• Presentation to CSM Helier William Bree, MM, Belgian Croix de Guerre, at the Town Hall

Occupation records

• Bree Occupation identity cards

Family wills

• Bray/Bree family wills from 1663 to 1970 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Bree burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

• Elias Bree was a shoemaker at 17 King Street in the 1850s
• C Bray had a boot and shoe warehouse at 57 King Street in 1900

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  1896
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  1888
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  George Bree, of Coin Varin, St Peter, retired from farming in 1880

Family album

Alice Louisa Brée, née Hamon (1913- ), right. On the left is her sister Anne Marie Hamon (1909- ), who is holding Amy Alice Brée (1934- ) Anne Marie married John Morel who died in 1937. She married for a second time to a Le Charpentier and spent many years running the small shop just to the north of St Mathieu's RC Church in St Lawrence. The photograph was taken at Gorey. Alice and Anne Marie were the daughters of Joseph Jean Marie Hamon, born in Brittany in 1846, and Jeanne Marie, nee Le Mounier

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  Mabel Harding, nee Bree
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  Jack Bree, who worked for many years at St Saviour's Hospital
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  Susan Valpy, nee Bree
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  Susan Elizabeth Bree
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  Susan Elizabeth Bree
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  Helier Bree (1837-1929), son of Philippe and Jane Mourant. Emigrated to New Zealand and married Elizabeth Haxton Lawson Young (1853-1926) there in 1870
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  Elizabeth Susan Bree
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  Susan Elizabeth Bree
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  P J Bree's Fauvic One in 1875
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  Bray-Boase wedding in 1905
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  Emily Jane Bray
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  Margaret Jueno, nee Bree, and Sandra
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  John Sydney and Wesley Bree
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  Touzel Bree, 1897
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  Touzel Bree, 1938
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  Jane Bree, nee Touzel
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  Helier Bree, awarded the Military Medal and Belgian Croix de Guerre in the Great War. Born in 1887 he was the son of Helier Bree and Jane Elizabeth, nee Atkins
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  Annie Barbara Esther Bree (1866- )
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  Samuel Harding and Mabel Mary Jayne, nee Bree

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs. Images of gravestones in other cemeteries will be added progressively

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  Almorah cemetery
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  Old 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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  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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  Surville Cemetery

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

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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