Gavey
Elsie Florence and Agnes Jenny Gavey
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Gavey family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Gavey, 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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Origin of Surname
This is a Jersey family name which goes back to at least the middle of the 15th century. Although not a common name in Normandy today, it is certainly of French origin. It is unusual in that it is derived from a female rather than a male personal name - Geva, a short form of Genevieve.
Early records
Guillaume Gavey, see tree below, was born in St Saviour about 1440.
Variants
- Gavey, 1607
- Gave, 1528
- Gavet
Family records
Family trees
- Guillaume Gavey: 15th-20th centuries
- Mathieu Gavey: 17th-20th centuries
- Jean Gavey: 18th-20th centuries
Church records
- Gavey baptisms in Jersey
- Gavey marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Gavey marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Gavey burials in Jersey
Biographies
- Sir John Gavey, Civil Engineer
- Philippe Gavey, emigrated to New England
Great War service
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
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Daniel Gavey’s house in Market Lane was sold by auction in January 1804
Family album
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Sir John Gavey -
Jane Gavey, 1890 -
Jeanneton Hotton, nee Gavey -
A Gavey wedding -
George Gavey (1837-)
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Agnes Jenny Gavey -
Elsie Florence Gavey
Family businesses
- John Gavey was in business as a grocer at 15 Halkett Place in the 1840s
- English tailor Emma Gavey and her son Philip, a silversmith, were at 15 Queen Street in the 1870s
- Perfumer John Thomas Gavey was at 17 Queen Street in the 1860s
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Family gravestones
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It's worth looking at the Cavey gravestones because it can be very difficult to distinguish between 'C' and 'G' on the old stones.
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The grave of Great War casualty Arthur John Gavey at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais
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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