Coombs burial records 1820-1978

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Coombs 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
356 and 357 Frances Georgina Coombe Guy 1890 Sinatt
57a Gertrude Anne Coombe Buck 1963 Le Quesne
448 16888 Mary Frances Coombe Aitken 1937 Croad
57a Thomas Bernard Coombe 1963 Le Quesne
31 44 Arthur Owen Coombes 1910 Sinatt
103b Christine Lydia Amelia Coombes Battam 1970 Le Quesne
7191 Ellen Coombes 1860 Picot
201A James Henry Coombes 1975 Pitcher and Le Quesne
12876 Kathleen Muriel Coombes 1923 Croad
833 William Coombes 1883 Croad
2714 William Coombes 1850 Picot
44b Alfred Coombs 1950 Le Quesne
12964 Amelia Elizabeth Coombs de La Mare 1924 Croad
17321 Amelia Elizabeth Coombs 1939 Croad
18666 Amelia Jane Coombs Bisson 1944 Croad
3548 Ann Coombs Mauger Scarborough 1892 Croad
4054 Arthur James Coombs 1894 Croad
19391 Augustine Coombs Bechemin 1947 Croad
297 - 298 81 Charles Coombs 20/07/1876 Sinatt
20070 Charles Sidney Coombs 1950 Croad
20072 Charles Sidney Coombs 1950 Croad
196b Charles Sidney Coombs 1967 Le Quesne
6869 Cyril Claude Coombs 1903 Croad
12755 Edward George Coombs 1923 Croad
10978 Elizabeth Coombs Powell 1867 Picot
11423 Elsie Adèle Coombs 1918 Croad
21127 Elsie Ida Coombs Le Riche 1954 Croad
5870 Elsie May Coombs 1900 Croad
4709 Emma Coombs 1855 Picot
21626 Emma Christine Coombs Warren 1956 Croad
4753 Ernest Charles Coombs 1896 Croad
1426 George Coombs 1885 Croad
18245 George Coombs 1942 Croad
154b George Joseph Coombs 1953 Le Quesne
369 - 370 31 Harry Singer Coombs 19/04/1877 Sinatt
171b Henry Ernest Coombs 1958 Le Quesne
13061 Henry George Coombs 1924 Croad
John Coombs 24.12.1943 Conery
474 Leah Coombs Perrimen 24/11/1862 Sinatt
63,64 Louisa Coombs Baker 1922 Sinatt
350 129 Louisa Mary Coombs Fontabel 1870 Sinatt
2445 Mabel Florence Coombs 1889 Croad
17180 Matilda Mary Coombs Moitie 1938 Croad
Mr Coombs 12/03/1826 Sinatt
15617 Pamela Mary Coombs 1933 Croad
18360 Rachel Elizabeth Coombs Churchill 1943 Croad
20264 Susan Alice Coombs Le Gros 1951 Croad
5598 Susan Ann Coombs 1857 Picot
11874 Violet Coombs 1920 Croad
4554 William Coombs 1855 Picot
288 William Henry Coombs 1931 Sinatt
716 - 717 143 Frances Cooms Hole 30/10/1879 Sinatt
5221 John Cooms 1898 Croad
619 - 620 34 Susanne Cooms Le Page 5/3/1879 Sinatt
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