Descendants of Philippe Le Cornu

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Descendants of Philippe Le Cornu





Charles Philippe Le Cornu, CB, KADC, Colonel, Militia




Alice Maria Lambert Le Cornu (1868- ), daughter of the above, and wife of Francis William Synge Le Maistre, Artist

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  • 1 Philippe Le Cornu (1734-1823) [1] m (1757, St J) Anne Poingdestre daughter of Abraham, of La Chênée (St J) and Anne Le Geyt
    • 2 Philippe Le Cornu (1758-1840) (St J) [2] m (1814) Marie Le Geyt (1788-1865) [3] daughter of Daniel, of Bon Air (St S) [4]
      • 3 Philippe Le Cornu (1817-1860?) [5] m (1846, Gr) Maria Charlotte Simonet (1820- ) daughter of Pierre [6]
        • 4 Philippe Simonet Le Cornu (1849-1883) [7] m (1877) Henrietta d`Auvergne (1846-1915) daughter of Philippe [8]
          • 5 Philippe d`Auvergne Le Cornu ( -1916) [9]
          • 5 Charles Edward Le Cornu (1883- ) [10] m Moira McCarthy
            • 6 Patricia d`Auvergne Le Cornu (1923- ) m (1949) David Lumley-Brown
        • 4 William Le Cornu (1850- ) [11] m Elizabeth Johanna Mc Cabe of Graffe Reinet (SA)
        • 4 Charles Frederick Le Cornu (1852- ) [12] m (1886, St Luke) Catherine Oceana Stevens (1852- )
          • 5 Charles James Seward Le Cornu (1888-1959) [13]
          • 5 Ralph Bertram Le Cornu (1894- ) [14] m 1 (1915, Eng) Marjorie Elizabeth Gould (1894- ) daughter of Benjamin Samuel; 2 (1927, Woolwich) Kathleen Clifton (with issue)
        • 4 Frederick Augustus Le Cornu (1853-1920) [15]
        • 4 Edwin Francis Le Cornu (1856- ) [16]
        • 4 Florence Eliza Maria Le Cornu (1857-1942) m (1890, St S) James Bertram of Pontac House (St C) [17]
        • 4 Isabel Mary Le Cornu (1859-1945)
        • 4 Arthur Octavius Le Cornu (1860- ) (SA) [18]
        • 4 Rosa Marian Le Cornu (1861-1938)
        • 4 Ada Blanche Le Cornu (1863- )
      • 3 John Daniel Le Cornu (1820- ) [19] m (1845, St O) Elizabeth Le Gros (1813- ) daughter of John [20]
        • 4 Elizabeth Le Cornu (1847- )
        • 4 Alfred John Le Cornu (1850?- ) [21] m (1880, St S) Rozel Falle daughter of Josué George Falle, Jurat [22]
          • 5 Rozel Hilda Le Cornu (1882- ) heiress m (1904, St H) Harry Morris, CEng [23]
            • 6 John Le Cornu Morris (1908-1940) [24]
      • 3 Thomas Le Cornu (1822-1883, ae 61) [25] m (1870, St O) Ellen Fixott [26] daughter of Charles (St H) [27]
      • 3 Charles Philip Le Cornu (1829-1911) [28] m (1858) Anne Lambert Helleur daughter of Philip, Colonel Militia
        • 4 Charles Helleur Lambert Le Cornu (1874-8/1922) [29] m (1899, St O) Margaret Malet de Carteret (1866-1950) daughter of Edward Charles [30]
          • 5 Margaret Elizabeth Le Cornu (1901- ) [31]
          • 5 Evelyn Ann Le Cornu (1903-1986) m Charles Rushton Elliott [32]
        • 4 Anne Le Cornu
        • 4 Emily Lambert Le Cornu (1861- ) [33]
        • 4 Mary Le Geyt Le Cornu (1865- )
        • 4 Alice Maria Lambert Le Cornu (1868- ) [34] m (1907, St P) Francis William Synge Le Maistre [35]
    • 2 Jean Le Cornu (1760-1844) (St J > Eng.) [36]
    • 2 Jeanne Le Cornu (1762- ) (St J)
    • 2 Anne Le Cornu (1764- ) (St J)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Of Les Landes Farm (St O), where his grandparents, Pierre Le Cornu, son of Jean, and Elizabeth Gibaut, his wife, left their initials: 17 PLCN EGB ILCN. 1, the ILCN for their son Jean, who was baptized in 1689: see also Joan Stevens, Old Jersey Houses, Volume II. Philippe (1734-1823), his eldest son and a grandson, are said to have become rich from engaging in the Island`s ancient pastime of smuggling. Their home in the remotest part of Les Landes, just north of the tenants' (or drovers') droit de passage to the Commune of Vinchelez de Haut, at Les Landes, was ideally located to serve fraudeurs. Isolated creeks abounded within half a mile to the north, west and south of the house. Local folklore has it that men clad in white sheets ensured the absence of both neighbours and prying eyes. Their home, which still exists, was enlarged and then finally exchanged for the manor of Vinchelez de Haut. A series of judicial marriages within the Island, may have assisted. Philippe Le Cornu restored, rather than made his family`s fortune. He was a direct descendant of the Le Cornus who were Seigneurs, in the 15th and early 16th centuries, of the Fief au Vesque, St Mary
  2. ↑ Of Vinchelez de Haut Manor. Purchased in 1826 the manor and Fief of Vinchelez de Haut
  3. ↑ 2nd cousin of her husband, Philippe
  4. ↑ Master mariner, then merchant in the Canadian fisheries
  5. ↑ Seigneur of Vinchelez de Haut, Colonel Militia
  6. ↑ Tobacco merchant
  7. ↑ OV; CEng. States of Jersey Engineer. The Jersey bank crashes of 1873 affected him badly. He retained his manor and fief, but moved nearer town, to Alphington House, St Saviour
  8. ↑ Of Les Marais; one-time Constable of St Ouen
  9. ↑ Seigneur of Vinchelez de Haut, but lived elsewhere; artist
  10. ↑ OV; in banking, with Capital and Counties Bank, later manager, Lloyd`s Bank, St Helier. He was the heir of his brother in 1916 and sold the manor and fief three years later. His home was The Knoll, St Saviour
  11. ↑ MA (Cantab) OV; Assistant-master, Victoria College, then Classical Master at a school in Cape Colony, South Africa. Headmaster, Cathedral Grammar School, Grahamstown, SA and Vice-Principal, Gray Institute, Port Elizabeth, SA. He retired to Jersey and is buried at St Saviour
  12. ↑ OV; lived at Woodbine, Bagot, St Saviour. He was in banking, becoming actuary of Jersey Savings Bank. He lived latterly at Carlton House, Bagot. Deputy of St Saviour 1922-1925
  13. ↑ OV; OBE, MC; Left College in 1905 to go to Sandhurst. Commissioned into The Royal Munster Fusiliers, he transferred into the 55th Coke's Rifles, Indian Army, and from that regiment into the 56th Punjabis. He later served in the Corps of Signals. He was awarded the Military Cross during the Great War, when serving as a Major in the Indian Army. He eventually retired with the rank of Lieut-Colonel, to Havre des Pas
  14. ↑ OV; MC; he left College in 1910 to enter the Royal Army Service Corps. He served in the Great War, awarded, when a Captain, the Military Cross. He transferred, after the war, to the Indian Army Service Corps, serving as major. Retired to his native Island, living in 1939 at Seagate, Samarès
  15. ↑ In 1881 a clerk in a wine office. In 1911 he was living on private means, with his spinster sisters, Isabel and Rose, at Woodbine, Bagot
  16. ↑ OV; he left College in 1873 and became manager of the Jersey Waterworks Company
  17. ↑ Chief cashier, Jersey Savings Bank
  18. ↑ OV; he was in 1881 a bank clerk, living in St Saviour. After some years, he emigrated to South Africa, living in Port Elizabeth in 1889
  19. ↑ Of Highfield, Vinchelez
  20. ↑ Sister of John, of Clare Street, St Helier, surgeon
  21. ↑ OV; he entered the Army, retiring in the rank of Captain. He was living at Highfield in 1897. In Jersey, he was secretary of the Victoria Club, St Helier
  22. ↑ Merchant in Burin, Newfoundland, who retired to Plaisance, on the site of the present Howard Davis Park
  23. ↑ President and director, Jersey Gas Light Company
  24. ↑ Lieutenant, RN, lost with HMS Jersey, 1940
  25. ↑ Of Heathmount, Mont ès Corvées; farmer. Major, Militia and Constable of St Ouen, 1852-1861; 1875-1882. Land he had formerly owned at La Thiébault, was presented to the National Trust for Jersey by his family, in his memory
  26. ↑ 1911 Census, St Ouen: The widowed Mrs Le Cornu was living at Heathmount with her sister, Miss Julia Fixott. She records that she had not had issue, presumably as she had married her husband when in her forties
  27. ↑ FRCS
  28. ↑ Colonel, Militia and KADC; he purchased in 1871, the manor and Fief of La Hague, having previously been the tenant of Trinity Manor. Colonel Le Cornu represented, between 1875-1881, his parish as a Deputy in the States
  29. ↑ Of La Hague Manor; Seigneur of La Hague, Nobretez, Blanc Eperon and other fiefs; died of heart failure at La Hague Manor, aged 58: Mollet`s history of La Hague
  30. ↑ Seigneur of St Ouen
  31. ↑ Dame de la Hague, Nobretez and du Blanc Eperon, which were sold with La Hague Manor, as a result of wartime neglect and damage to the manor and grounds by German forces, to Scottish immigrants. Miss Le Cornu lived latterly with friends at Waldegrave, the former Briard property, in Beaumont
  32. ↑ Civil Engineer. Mrs Elliott inherited from her father the Fiefs des Nièmes and Sauvalle, in St Peter, which she retained. She has descendants in England
  33. ↑ Dame du Fief de Lecq
  34. ↑ Colonel Le Cornu did not favour his daughters marrying. They all complied with his wishes except Alice, who married in her father`s later years. Her portrait hangs today in the hall at her father`s former home, La Hague Manor, now a preparatory school.
  35. ↑ Of Grey Gables, Mont au Roux Brelade; maritime artist, born nearby at Maison du Coin
  36. ↑ Vicar of Hathersage and Derwent, Derbyshire
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