Egan


Ann Julia Egan, photographed at Snow Hill, St Helier. She was born in Jersey in 1941, the daughter of John Joseph Egan and Laura Mary Elizabeth, nee Macfarlane, who both came from England and married in Jersey
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Origins of surname
This surname is the Anglicised form of the Gaelic Aodhagain, from the personal name Aodh, meaning 'fire'.
Early records
The earliest Egans in Jersey were soldiers - probably Irish. In 1804 Peter Egan married Fanny Limb in her home parish of St Lawrence. They had a daughter Esther Charlotte, baptised in 1810. In 1819 Thomas Egan married Mary Ann Cox in her home parish of St Helier. But John Egan, who married Martha Allen in St Helier in 1813 was said to have been born in the parish, although there is no baptism record for him.
Possibly one of the earliest of the family in the island was Catherine, who died at the age of 71 in 1823. It is not known if she was born in the island, however.
The first baptism on record is that of Bridget, daughter of John and Mary of St Ouen, in 1801.
Variants
- Egan
Family records

Family trees

Church records
- Egan baptisms in Jersey
- Egan marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Egan marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Egan burials in Jersey

Great War service
Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc
- Henry Egan (1890- ) (St H), son of William and Mary, driver, RFA
- William John Egan (1898- ) (St H) son of William and Nancy, Officer's Steward RN, HMS Victory I

Family wills
These wills created by members of the Egan 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
- Egan : Ellen Madeline , spinster 3/11/1891 Bequeaths to Henry John White Egan the interest for life of £500 in East India Stock, £300 in Bombay and Baroda Railway and £300 in Consols, at his death the said shares to be divided between certain named parties - Unknown date , 29/Feb/1892 , D/Y/A/51/27
- Egan : John , of No 100, Le Geyt Flats, St Helier - 31/Aug/1971 , 27/Feb/1978 , D/Y/B1/274/32
- Egan : Paul Nicholas , 3 Queen's Road, St Helier - 16/Jun/1924 , 04/May/1933 , D/Y/A/94/106
- Egan : Susan Jane , nee Bouchere, 3 Queens Road, St Helier, widow - 19/Dec/1944 , 09/Jan/1946 , D/Y/A/115/9
- Egan : Thomas Francis , of 6, Dyson Road, Singapore - 14/Feb/1966 , 14/Sep/1967 , D/Y/B1/111/38

Burial records

Family album
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P Egan, photographed by Henry Mullins [1]
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Anne Julia Egan (1941- ), her brother John Patrick, and their parents John Joseph Eden (1901-1978) and Laura May Elizabeth Macfarlane (1905-1982), She married an unknown Langlois in London in 1960.
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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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Notes and references
- ↑ Mullins was the most prolific of early Jersey portrait photographers. He was in business in the Royal Square from 1848 to 1873. His images now form part of the Société Jersiaise photographic archive. There are over 9,000 catalogued and digitised images in the collection, the vast majority very small thumbnails on contact sheets containing up to 12 portraits. Mullins was the photographer of choice for leading members of Jersey society and successful local and immigrant families. Many of his subjects were officers of the garrison regiments
![P Egan, photographed by Henry Mullins [1]](/w/images/a/aa/S25MullinsPEgan.png)
