Francis

Francis family page

Francis Francis (1834-1875)

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Francis family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Francis, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

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

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

This surname originates with the personal name Francis.

Early records

The name can be found in Jersey church records from the beginning of the 18th century, but it would be another century before several different families began to establish themselves in the island.

Variations

• Francis
• Francois, a separate family page

Family records

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Francis baptisms in Jersey
• Francis marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Francis marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Francis burials in Jersey

Family trees

• Richard Francis: 16th-21st centuries
• John Francis: 19th-20th centuries

Great War service

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc

• Charles Short Francis (1886- ) (St O) son of Henry and Rachel, Private, Labour Corps
• Melville Francis (1893- ) son of Francis and Nellie Francis, Private, Canadian Army

Occupation records

• Francis Occupation identity cards

Family wills

This will created by a member of the family is now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, date and reference number 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

• John Francis, Ommaroo Hotel, Havre des Pas, St Helier - 15 January 1937, D/Y/A/100

Burial records

• Francis burial records 1820-1978

Family album

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  What a delightful contrast in style and fashions over the course of 40 years. This is Frank and Nellie Francis, with their children Melville, Helen and Arthur, photographed in Ontario in 1898. Frank was born in Jersey in 1864 but crossed the Atlantic to live with an aunt after both his parents died before he was 14...
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  ... this photograph, also taken in Ontario, but in 1937, shows the same Melville, with his wife Marie, nee Lamoureux, and their children Gordon, Jack, Frank and Ruth

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  An unidentified Mrs Francis, photographed in the mid-19th century by Henry Mullins
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  Marie Aurelie Francis, nee Lamoureux
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  Melville Francis in his Canadian Army uniform during the Great War
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  Charlotte Thompson
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  The 1875 marriage of John Marett and Charlotte Francis
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  Harold Francis (1895-1947)

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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