Corbin burial records 1820-1978

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Corbin 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
16490 Adeliza Rachel Corbin Curry 1936 Croad
9a Alice Eva Louise Corbin 1957 Le Quesne
Anne Marie Gael Corbin 05/03/1934 Conery
387 Arthur Charles Corbin 1935 Sinatt
285 Arthur Edward Corbin 1966 Pitcher
46b Clarence Raymond Corbin 1960 Le Quesne
66 Doris Kathleen Corbin Crowhurst 1967 Pitcher
11862 Eli Corbin 1920 Croad
5774 Elizabeth Corbin Churchill 1899 Croad
164 3 Ellen Corbin Fennell 1909 Sinatt
445 Fanny Susan Corbin Stamburg 1935 Sinatt
5957 Florence Eliza Corbin Trowbridge 1900 Croad
7540 François Leon Corbin 1861 Picot
135a,135b 85 Francois Pierre Corbin 1881 Sinatt
20470 Frederick George Corbin 1952 Croad
163A Frederick Walter Corbin 1975 Pitcher and Le Quesne
Harriet Corbin Sawyer 27/11/1950 Conery
Harriet Corbin 02/03/1955 Conery
126 Infant Corbin 25/07/1849 Sinatt
366 John Corbin 1881 Croad
405 John Corbin 1881 Croad
John Edward Corbin 29/08/1933 Conery
46 Julia Corbin Ledwick 1933 Sinatt
463 Louisa Elizabeth Corbin Gann 1881 Croad
15767 Lydia de Garis Corbin 1934 Croad
500A Marie Rose Corbin Peron 1978 Pitcher and Le Quesne
159 Mrs Corbin 03/11/1849 Sinatt
204 Octavie Henriette Corbin Viard 1912 Sinatt
12541 Philip Henry Corbin 1922 Croad
113 59 Rosina Hilda Corbin 1878 Croad
9350 Thomas Corbin 1912 Croad