Burial records Y

Croad and Sons burial records - Y

The records of undertakers Pitcher and Le Quesne and some of their predecessors are held by Jersey Archive and are being digitised and indexed by archive staff and volunteers. The first to appear on their website are the Livres de Remarques of Croad's, the family undertaker's business established by William J Croad. These cover the dates 1867 to 1962 and 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 entries in the Croad Livre de Remarques - 1867 The books can be viewed on line or downloaded, and are presented on the website in 14 sets, at present covering the period up to 1960. Each set is indexed in a downloadable index. This index gives a reference number, surname and forenames, and maiden names and previous married names for married women. There are also columns for titles of some of the deceased and additional remarks. It can be a lengthy process searching for records because the indexes do not give a date of burial, so 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 created a full A-Z index for all 23,000-plus records, with the year of burial included, for the benefit of our users who have an Archive subscription. 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 14 sets of records. The page will open for everybody but only subscribers will be able to view the records Page numbers are given for some records, including the earliest, for which record numbers were not sequential. From 1879 Croad's operated a new system of sequential numbering continuing year after year. Some numbers were duplicated and some sequences were not used, and page numbers were used to help locate these records. Using the year of death and record number shown in our index should enable researchers to easily locate desired records 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 will be left in the full A-Z indexes, when they are created during 2018. 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.

Page number	Record number	Forenames	Surname	Maiden name	Previous married name	Year of death
89	15512	Muriel Gwendoline	Yakchee	née Hart		1933
429	16812	Mary	Yates			1937
	21789	Nancy	Yates			1957
	19306	Thomas Victor	Yates			1947
	17853	Victor Edward	Yates			1941
565	63	George William Hamling	Yealland			1869
	4196	William Garden	Yeates			1894
	14218	Eliza	Yeatman	née Dennis		1928
	3897	William	Yeatman			1893
	15325	William	Yeatman			1932
565	39	Robert	Yeatmen			1867
	12726	Mary Elizabeth	Yeoman			1923
	12732	Mary Elizabeth	Yeoman			1923
	20946	Susie Baudains	Yockney	née Le Cocq		1954
566	54	Albert George	Youlton			1869
	12878	Ann	Youlton	née Buesnel		1923
567	110	Annie Matilda	Youlton			1874
	22023	Charles Buesnel Harris	Youlton			1958
	10777	Elsie	Youlton	née Buesnel		1916
	953	Elsie Ida	Youlton			1883
472	16981	Ernest Francis	Youlton			1938
	649	Ethel Elise	Youlton			1882
	3919	Gladys	Youlton			1893
566	60	James	Youlton			1870
	149	Lavinia Jane	Youlton			1879
	2745	Percy Buesnel	Youlton			1890
	2627	Robert	Youlton			1889
	14141	Walter Robert	Youlton			1928
567	74	Alexander	Young			1877
	13911	Alfred William	Young			1927
	21580	Arthur Stanley	Young			1956
	9982	Elizabeth	Young	née Moxey		1914
	4673	John Thomas	Young			1896
	21575	Lawrence Herbert Frankland	Young			1956
	22121	Patrick Henry	Young			1958
	16457	Alfred Henri Auguste	Yvon			1936
	21868	George Alexandre	Yvon			1957