Descendants of Brelade Alexandre

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Descendants of Brelade Alexandre



Alexandre of St Brelade



Banknote (1835) of Matthieu and Francis Alexandre, generation 11

Colin Alexandre was recorded in the Extente of 1331 as living in St Brelade, with which parish, and the neighbouring St Peter, the name has for centuries been associated. The genealogy shown on this page is based upon trees at La Société Jersiaise by the mid-20th century genealogists Charles Langton and Pepperell, who were not paid to create their genealogies. Their work was transcribed, with dates and facts added by Guy Dixon in 2024. [1]

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  • 1 Brelade Alexandre (1480-1538) (St B) [2] m Janette Unknown
    • 2 Jean Alexandre (1510- ) (St B) m Ann ( -1582)
      • 3 Brelade Alexandre (1540-1637) (St B) m (1569, St B) Richarde Bisson, daughter of Guillaume (La Moye)
        • 4 Brelade Alexandre (1572-1645) (St B) [3] m Isabel Le Brun ( -by 1634), [4] daughter of Nicolas (St P)
          • 5 Pierre Alexandre (1594- ) (St B) m (1628, St B) Jeanne Le Bas, daughter of Nicolas and Marie, nee Bechervaise (St P) [5]
            • 6 Brelade Alexandre (1630-1657) (St B) m (1647, St B and P) Sara de la Haule ( -1692)
              • 7 Jeanne Alexandre (1649- ) (St B)
              • 7 Two unnamed daughters Alexandre (1650-1650)
              • 7 Brelade Alexandre (1651-1720) (St B) m (1680, St B) Elizabeth Orange ( -1726)
                • 8 Sara Alexandre (1682- ) (St B)
                • 8 Susanne Alexandre (1684- ) (St B)
                • 8 Elizabeth Alexandre (1687- ) (St B)
                • 8 Anne Alexandre (1689- ) (St B)
                • 8 Brelade Alexandre (1691-1761) (St B) m (1721, St B) Elizabeth Le Rossignol
                  • 9 Elizabeth Alexandre (1722- ) (St B)
                  • 9 Pierre Alexandre (1727-1801) (St B)
                • 8 Jeanne Alexandre (1693- ) (St B)
                • 8 Sara Alexandre (1695- ) (St B)
                • 8 Catherine Alexandre (1698- ) (St B)
              • 7 Guillaume Alexandre (1652- ) (St B)
              • 7 Sara Alexandre (1656-1683) (St B)
              • 7 Matthieu Alexandre (1657- ) (St B)
            • 6 Daughter Alexandre (1633- ) m Jacques Dumaresq, liv 1665
            • 6 Thomas Alexandre (1637- ) (St B)
            • 6 Pierre Alexandre (1638-1665- ) (St B)
            • 6 Jacques Alexandre (1640- ) (St B)
          • 5 Catherine Alexandre (1596- )
          • 5 Jeanne Alexandre (1599- ) m (1634, St B) Richard Pipon (1598-1637) (St B) [6]
          • 5 Isabel Alexandre (1602- ) [7]
          • 5 Marie Alexandre (1604- ) m Philippe Gervaise (St B)
        • 4 Pierre Alexandre (1575-1641) (St B) m (1606, St B) Elizabeth Quesnel
        • 4 Thomas Alexandre (1584-1584) (St B)
        • 4 Jean Alexandre (liv 1607)
        • 4 Jacques Alexandre (liv 1615)
        • 4 Marie Alexandre
        • 4 Anne Alexandre m Jacques Clement (St B)
      • 3 Pierre Alexandre (c1542-1563) (St B) m Jeanne Unknown
        • 4 Thomasse Alexandre
        • 4 Catherine Alexandre
        • 4 Guillaume Alexandre (c1567- ) (St B) [8] m Perronelle Martel
          • 5 Jacques Alexandre ( -1602) unm.
          • 5 Thomas Alexandre (1590-1655) (St B) m Susanne de la Haule
            • 6 Matthieu Alexandre (c1620- ) (St B) [9] m (1650, St B) Jeanne Le Goupil
              • 7 Susanne Alexandre (1651- ) (St B) m (1674, St B) Richard Orange (St B)
              • 7 Thomas Alexandre (1653- ) (St B) m (1687, St B) Sara Orange [10] daughter of Nicolas and Catherine, nee Alexandre
                • 8 Matthieu Alexandre (1689- liv 1774) (St B) m (1710, Gr) Elizabeth de la Place
                  • 9 Matthieu Alexandre (1711-by 1725) (St B)
                  • 9 Elizabeth Alexandre (1713- liv 1762) (St B)
                  • 9 Jeanne Alexandre (1715- ) (St B) m Jean Balleine (St P)
                  • 9 Jean Alexandre (1718-1794) (St B) m (1745, St B) Jeanne Marett, daughter and heiress of George and Rachel, nee Poingdestre
                    • 10 Jean Alexandre (1746-by 1751) (St B)
                    • 10 George Alexandre (1748- ) (St B)
                    • 10 Jeanne Alexandre (1751-1751) (St B)
                    • 10 Jean Alexandre (1751- ) [11]
                    • 10 Pierre Alexandre (1759- ) (St B) [12]
                    • 10 Matthieu Alexandre (1754-1808) (St B) [13] m (1774, St B) Annie Alexandre (1757-1843) (St B), below [14]
                      • 11 Anne Alexandre (1774- ) (St B) m (1802, St P) Jean Le Boutillier (St P)
                      • 11 Matthieu Alexandre (1776-1841) (St B) [15] m (1799, St P) Rachel Le Brocq, daughter of Jean and Jeanne, nee Anley (La Fontaine, St P)
                        • 12 Matthieu Alexandre (1801-1885) (St B > St P) [16] m 1 (1822, St B) Marguerite Poingdestre (1800-1843), daughter of Nicolas, son of Abraham, and Elizabeth Marguerite, nee Giffard (1771-1852) (St B)
                          • 13 Marie Jeanne Alexandre (1821- ) (St B) m (1841, St B) Jean Le Bas (St B)
                          • 13 Jean Alexandre (1823- ) (St P) [17]
                          • 13 Matthew George Alexandre (1826-1894) (St P) [18] m 1 (1857, Newport, Mon) Esther Sophia Victoria Simon (1838-1864), daughter of Peter [19] and Sophie Esther, nee Le Sueur, (Pillgwenly, formerly of St B); 2 (1880, St H) Carterette Jane Falle, daughter of John (St P) [20]
                            • 14 Matthew John Alexandre (1859-1903) (Eng)
                            • 14 Frederick George Alexandre (1860-1860) (St P)
                            • 14 Georgiana Sophia Alexandre (1861- ) (St B) [21]
                            • 14 Lizzie Annie Alexandre (1862-1953) (St B > Gr)
                          • 13 Georgiana Rachel Alexandre (1828-1856) (St P) m (1855, St B) Frederick Browning, [22] son of William Hardwick (Clerkenwell)
                          • 13 Charles Frederick Alexandre (1831- liv 1841) (St P)
                          • 13 Emily Margaret Alexandre (1837-1837) (St P)
                          • 13 Walter Brocq Alexandre (1839-1850) (St P)
                          • 13 Giffard Poingdestre Alexandre (1841-1922) (St P) [23] m 1 Unknown Mellish; 2 (1893, St H) Lydia Jackson, daughter of John [24]
                        • 2nd wife of Matthieu Alexandre (1847, St B) Harriet Le Vavasseur dit Noel, daughter of Matthieu (St H) [25]
                          • 13 Francis James Alexandre (1848-1889) (St P) [26]
                          • 13 William Charles Alexandre (1851-1922) (St P) [27] m (1/1872, St B) Rachel Carrel de Lecq Le Montais, daughter of Jean de Lecq Le Montais (St B)
                            • 14 Emily Rachel Alexandre (1872-1916) (St P)
                            • 14 Louisa Ann Alexandre (1879- ) (St P) m (1908, St P) Francis John Perrée (St My), [28] son of Francis Arthur Perrée
                      • 11 Jean Alexandre (1778-1816?) (St B)
                      • 11 George Francis Alexandre (1781- ) (St B)
                      • 11 Marie Alexandre (1784- ) (St B) m (1804, St B) Jean Filleul (St B)
                      • 11 Elizabeth Alexandre (1784-1866) (St B)
                  • 9 Judith Alexandre (1720- ) (St B) m (1753, St B) Jean Dallain (St P)
                  • 9 Matthieu Alexandre (1725-1792) (St B) [29] m (1755, St P) Anne Renouf, daughter and heiress of Jean
                    • 10 Anne Alexandre (1757-1843) (St B) [30] m Matthieu Alexandre (St B), above [31]
                    • 10 Francois Alexandre (1759- ) (St B) [32] m (1802, St B) Anne Luce, daughter of Jean
                      • 11 Annie Alexandre (1803- ) (St B)
                      • 11 Francois Alexandre (1804-1896) (St B) [33] m (1845, St S) Elizabeth Le Bas, daughter of Nicolas (St H) [34]
                        • 12 Lavinia Elizabeth Alexandre (1851- ) m (1877, St H) Francis John Alexandre (1848-1905) (St P) [35]
                        • 12 Louisa Alexandre (1856- ) m (1885, St B) Matthieu Jean Alexandre (Quennevais)
                      • 11 Mary Anne Alexandre (1807- ) (St B)
                      • 11 Henrietta Alexandre (1810- ) (St B) m (1832, St B) Alexander Low (1799- ), MD [36]
                    • 10 Matthieu Alexandre (1762- ) (St B)
                    • 10 Judith Alexandre (1764- ) (St B) m (1789, St B) Philippe Le Brocq (St P)
                    • 10 Jean Alexandre (1767- ) (St B)
                    • 10 Edouard Alexandre (1770-1770) (St B)
                  • 9 Marie Alexandre (c1730- ) [37] m (1762, St B) Francois de Lecq (St B)
              • 7 Matthieu Alexandre (1655-1655) (St B)
              • 7 Jeanne Alexandre (1656- ) (St B)
              • 7 Catherine Alexandre (1659- ) (St B) m (1679, St B) Thomas Gabourel
              • 7 Sara Alexandre (1661- ) (St B)
            • 6 Catherine Alexandre m (1657, St B) Nicolas Orange (St B)
          • 5 Pierre Alexandre (1593- ) (St B)
          • 5 Jeanne Alexandre m Jean Le Petevin dit Le Roux (St B)
          • 5 Marie Alexandre (1600-1653) m (1624, St B) Philippe Dumaresq (1595-1654) (St P)
      • 3 Janette Alexandre m Francois Becquet [38]
      • 3 Anne Alexandre [39]
    • 2 Nicolas Alexandre (1512- ) [40]
    • 2 Guillaume Alexandre (1514- )
    • 2 Edouard Alexandre (liv 1538)
    • 2 Sebastien Alexandre (1518- ) [41]
    • 2 Janette Alexandre m Jean Le Marquand
    • 2 Rose Alexandre m Matthieu Picquet
    • 2 Catherine Alexandre m Thomas Le Goupil


Notes and references

  1. ↑ There were at least two other branches of St Brelade Alexandres descended from this stock. Examples are Jean Alexandre of St Brelade (c1540- ), whose unnamed wife had issue Marie (1574) and Sebastien Alexandre, baptised in 1572, who married in 1598 Marie Coulomb. They had issue Pierre (1599), Edouard (1604), Nicolas (1606) and Denise (1610-1654), who married in 1635, Jean Ficquet. Also born in about 1540, was Thomas Alexandre of St Brelade, who married in 1570 Marie Rose. They had issue Pierre (1571), Jeanne (1575) and Thomas Alexandre (1582), who married in 1606, Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Vaudin. They were perhaps the parents of Josias Alexandre, son of Thomas, who was born in 1611
  2. ↑ Constable of St Brelade, 1527-1538
  3. ↑ His sisters were probably older
  4. ↑ RP 11/137 (1634) gives her surname as Le Brun. Langton has Le Cornu, no doubt a transcription error
  5. ↑ Martin de Gruchy manuscript law notebook
  6. ↑ Drowned in the Atlantic: Alfred Pipon, Genealogies of the Families Pipon, (Jersey: Dingle and Nel, 1986)
  7. ↑ Godfather: Pierre Le Brun
  8. ↑ Constable's Officer, 1591
  9. ↑ Vingtenier des Quennevais, 1650-1693
  10. ↑ His first cousin
  11. ↑ Twin; died in infancy
  12. ↑ Died in infancy
  13. ↑ Of Les Ormes, Quennevais. First Printer in Jersey, 1785; Constable`s Officer, 1787
  14. ↑ His first cousin
  15. ↑ Landowner and banker, the latter commencing in 1817, underwritten by Jean Le Brocq [La Fontaine] and Francois Alexandre [his maternal first cousin]. Their St Helier paying agent was Jean Syvret, Broad Street. The bank, as McCammon records, was initially known as St Peter`s Jersey Bank. By 1835 it was Le Coin Bank, with Francis Alexandre now as secretary. His sister, Henrietta, married Alexander Low of Le Coin, St Brelade, no doubt accounting for the new name. Matthieu was a Lieutenant, SW (5th) Regiment, Militia, from 1812, and Vingtenier of Quennevais. He drowned on 9 March, together with Mr Thomas Poingdestre, aged 28 years, 8 months, his daughter-in-law`s brother, and buried in St Brelade`s cemetery: Respectively, Almanac, Constitutionel (1821); A L T McCammon, Currencies of the Anglo-Norman Isles; St Brelade parish register (1841)
  16. ↑ Formerly of Les Ormes, St Brelade, and then of The Oaks, St Peter; Lieutenant, Militia, from 1817, and promoted Captain in 1834; Shipowner (1828-1849, retaining shares in shipping in 1851) and banker (1841-1873), also freeholder and farmer of 18 acres (1851)
  17. ↑ Master mariner. His baptism has not been found, but he features unambiguously as a son, together with the rest of the family in the 1851 census, and in that of 1861 as brother of Matthew George Alexandre. In 1871 he was a Lodger with his brother`s maternal relative, William Falle, at Malorey Manor. He was issued with a master`s certificate of competency at Jersey on 17 February 1851 and his Board of Trade master`s certificate on 17 May that year, at Liverpool, having served nine years as apprentice, seaman and mate. His vessels included the Jersey schooner-brigs Renard (142 tons) and Don (130 tons), owned by his father
  18. ↑ Banker`s and shipowner`s clerk (1851) then, on marriage in 1857, merchant, of Pillgwenlly, [near Newport] Wales (late of Jersey). In 1861 he was a farmer of 12 acres at Hawkmount, Le Coin, St Brelade. He appears to have suffered financially as a result of Jersey`s bank crashes in 1873, the year his father ended his banking activities. He and his wife were living at Brockagh, Beaumont, in 1891, the National Probate Calendar recording in 1894 probate to his two daughters in the sum of £865
  19. ↑ Merchant
  20. ↑ Gentleman, of the Falle property now named Daisy Farm, adjoining Matthew George Alexandre`s former home, The Oaks
  21. ↑ She died without issue, as did her elder brother
  22. ↑ Of La Patrimoine, St Lawrence, merchant and dry salter in London, as was his father. He was a widower by 1861. His sister Sarah married John Le Cronier, MD
  23. ↑ Master mariner
  24. ↑ Schoolmaster
  25. ↑ Solicitor of the Royal Court
  26. ↑ Ensign, Militia (1863)
  27. ↑ Of The Oaks, St Peter
  28. ↑ Landowner
  29. ↑ Roads inspector, Quennevais
  30. ↑ Godparents:Matthieu Alexandre, grandfather, and Anne Robichon
  31. ↑ Her first cousin
  32. ↑ Of Quennevais; Lieutenant, SW (5th) Regiment of Militia
  33. ↑ Landowner and banker, in conjunction with his first cousin, Matthieu Alexandre
  34. ↑ Merchant
  35. ↑ Settled on his wife`s property in St Brelade; Deputy for St Brelade, 1892
  36. ↑ Of La Maison du Coin, St Brelade, formerly Surgeon, 5th Regiment, Medical Inspector-General, Militia and Deputy in the States for St Brelade. Issue of this marriage included Augusta Low, the wife of the Rev George John Le Maistre, Incumbent of St Aubin, and Harriet Helen Low, the wife of Major Drake
  37. ↑ Marie`s baptismal entry has not been found. She and her husband presented for baptism in 1762 their daughter, Marie de Lecq. Her godparents were Jean Dallain of St Peter and Elizabeth Alexandre, who was described as being the child`s aunt. Marie Alexandre, described as wife of Francois de Lecq, was in 1781 godmother of George Francis Alexandre, son of the printer, Matthieu Alexandre, and of his wife Anne, nee Alexandre, who was Marie`s niece
  38. ↑ Named as Brelade Becquet in Langton`s Alexandre genealogy; however, 8/252 names him as Francois. They had issue Brelade Becquet and his sister Catherine, wife of Nicolas Gervaise
  39. ↑ Godmother of Brelade, son of Brelade Alexandre, in 1572
  40. ↑ Rector of St Brelade, 1554-1565; 1571-1572
  41. ↑ Mariner; probably originally a privateer, but found guilty of piracy on 18 January 1551: Cour de Catel. He was sentenced to be hung, as were his co-accused, Bernabey Le Quesne and John Wyte. The sentence was carried out upon the latter two but Alexandre was reprieved, for certain considerations of justice. Being a son of the former Constable of St Brelade and having two brothers who were local priests, may have benefitted him


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