Drieu
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Drieu family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Drieu, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records
From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.
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Origins of surname
We previously had a single page for Drew and Drieu, believing that the two spellings of names which sound the same and may have had a common derivation, were found in single Jersey families. We now believe this not to be the case and have separated the two names.
There are any number of suggestions for the origins of Drieu, depending partly on whether it comes from England or France.
The most likely derivation of is from the Germanic personal name Drogo, but authorities differ on the origins of this name - possibly drog = 'ghost' in Anglo-Saxon or = 'combat' in old French.
Drieu is a common name in Normandy, where it is said to be derived from the personal name Andrieu.
Early records
The spelling Drieu has, somewhat surprisingly, been present in Jersey church records for a much shorter time than Drew.
Drieu only goes back to the 19th century in local church records, but the compiler of our Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames, which gives the derivation as Andrieu, says that the spelling Drieu, and Le Dru, which is now extinct, can be found in other records dating back to the 13th century.
Variations
- Drieu
- Drieux
- Dreux
- Drew: Separate family page
- Le Dru 1299
Family records
Church records
- Drieu baptisms in Jersey
- Drieu marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Drieu marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Drieu burials in Jersey
Family trees
Great War service
Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc
- Emile John George Drieu (1883-1919) son of Alfred Charles and Eugene Drieu, Officer's Steward RN, HMS Minotaur, died of pneumonia
- Alfred Emmanuel Drieu (1903- ) son of Emanuel and Elizabeth, Boy RN, HMS Impregnable
- Fred Drieu (1891- ) (St H) Officer's Steward RN, HMS New Zealand
Occupation records
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Drieu family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page
- Drieu : Aimee Amelia , wife of Thomas Benjamin Knight, Marine Cottage, Bel Royal, St Lawrence - 09/Aug/1935 , 07/Aug/1937 , D/Y/A/101/19
- Drieu : Alexandrine Eleonore , daughter of Leonard and wife of Charles Pierre Le Cuirot Desires to be buried in the parish of Grouville Bequeaths to her daughter Maud Gladys Feron, nee Le Cuirot, the silver watch, the gold keeper and the five shilling piece belonging to her - 04/Jan/1937 , 02/Sep/1953 , D/Y/B1/21/2
- Drieu : Alfred Victor Eugene , 2 Greenwood Terrace, Havre des Pas, St Helier - 03/Feb/1943 , 22/Nov/1944 , D/Y/A/113/14
- Drieu : Alice May , wife of Charles Clifford Perrier, of Overdale Hospital, St Helier and formerly of 54, Clearview Street, St Helier - 26/Jun/1967 , 08/Jan/1976 , D/Y/B1/233/27
- Drieu : Leonard Hyacinthe , Grouville - 14/Nov/1885 , 27/Nov/1909 , D/Y/A/68/117
- Drieu : Louis Francois , of Coutances, Manche, France, now of St Saviour : - 10/Oct/1885 , 04/Jun/1886 , D/Y/A/45/97
Burial records
Family album
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An envelope addressed to P Dreux in Queen Street in 1943. It bears a set of Jersey Occupation stamps and a German stamp
Family businesses
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1939 advert in the Chronique de Jersey
Family gravestones
Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs
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The grave of Great War casualty Emile John George Drieu at Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport
Tips
The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.
We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling
The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.
New records
Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form
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