Gray burial records 1820-1978

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Gray burial records

The records of Jersey's seven major undertakers from 1820 to the late 1970s are held by Jersey Archive and have been digitised and indexed by archive staff and volunteers. We previously provided family page listings of the records of Croad's, a single business, but have now combined all the records into a single new index and are progressively updating the lists in our family pages. The full records are available to subscribers to the Archive's online service. The entries within the volumes give vital family history information such as the name and age of the person buried, their immediate relations, the place and date of death, as well as place of burial - cemetery, location of grave and even the coffin's depth. Some records also give details of the deceased's occupation or public positions held.


The first records, from 1867, in the Croad Livre de Remarques


The books can be viewed on line or downloaded. Each set for each undertaker has an index which subscribers can view online or download.

It can be a lengthy process searching for records because there are separate indexes for each funeral director and most do not give a date of burial. This means that several volumes may have to be accessed when searching for details of an ancestor's burial. Although the Archive website has a search facility which allows a search for individual names, the results can include all manner of other records in their catalogue and, unless the exact spelling of a name is known, the required record will not be found.

Jerripedia has not only created a full A-Z index for all 66,000-plus records, with the year of burial included for the benefit of our users who have an Archive subscription, but we are adding indexes of records, such as this one, for individual families included in our 1,200-plus family pages, which include all the island's most important families.

This link is to the Archive website page containing links to the seven sets of records. The page will open for everybody but only subscribers will be able to view the records

Some records use page numbers and sequential record numbering. Most of the Archive indexes do not include dates. All our indexes and lists give dates, and having identified the undertaker and date of funeral from this listing you can then easily find the volume containing the record.

The Archive indexes contain some very unusual spellings for common Jersey surnames. We are cross-checking these with the images of the undertaker's books and finding that most are errors of transcription, which can be corrected for our index, although the process of checking against the books is very time-consuming. Some of the handwriting in the books is very difficult to read, and there may also be errors in the entries. We are correcting names when we are entirely satisfied that a common surname has been wrongly entered or transcribed. Variations of common names which may be correct are included at the end of family name indexes, and have been left in the full A-Z indexes.

Our advice is the same as it is with any other set of records included in Jerripedia. If you don't find an ancestor where you expect to, look for variations in spelling and, perhaps for names with or without prefixes, such as Le, La, L', de and du. Variations may appear next to records for names spelt in the standard form; they may also be some way out of sequence.

Please note that the work of updating all our family page burial lists to include all funeral directors is not yet complete, and some pages still link to an incomplete listing for a single business. Note also that there were other undertakers in business over the years whose records are not included in this collection. For families with a significant number of records we have created a separate page, but when there are only a few records the link may be to an A-Z index page, and you will need to scroll through the alphabetical listing to find the family you are interested in.

  • Burial records: Our main index to undertakers' registers, cemetery records and gravestone images
Page number Record number Forenames Surname Maiden name Previous
married name 		Associated names Notes Year
of burial 		Funeral director
10a Ada Jane Mary Gray Clarke 1945 Le Quesne
3111 Albert Alfred Gray 1851 Picot
9754 Alfred Gray 1865 Picot
18781 Alice Gray Le Riche 1944 Croad
12810 Alice Ada Gray 1871 Picot
22 Amelia Gray 1913 Sinatt
296 Andrew Gray 10/06/1851 Sinatt
140 81 Ann Gray Jean 1908 Sinatt
2018 Ann Gray Pittard 1887 Croad
87a,87b 167 Ann Elizabeth Beckford Gray 1880 Sinatt
22a Antony Gray 1951 Le Quesne
559,560 Arthur Gray 1922 Sinatt
Bridget Gray 07/01/1828 Sinatt
6238 Catherine Gray Wood 1858 Picot
251b Charles Gray 1954 Le Quesne
226 Charles Elias Gray 1937 Sinatt
492 and 493 Charles William Gray 1891 Sinatt
46 Charlotte Ann Gray Warburton 1928 Sinatt
Child (male) Gray 27/09/1828 Sinatt
226 25 Dundas McQueen Gray 1870 Croad
2868 Eliza Gray Finlay 1890 Croad
96b Eliza Jane Gray Queree 1938 Le Quesne
222 Elizabeth Gray Wife of John 25/07/1850 Sinatt
123 Elizabeth Gray Daniels 30/04/1856 Sinatt
179,180 103 Elizabeth Baskerville Gray Beckford 1894 Sinatt
10238 Elizabeth Mary Gray 1915 Croad
329 Ellen L Gray 10/10/1851 Sinatt
157 Ellinor Gray 1936 Sinatt
268 and 269 Emily Milly Gray 1890 Sinatt
5931 Esther Gray Pope 1858 Picot
7551 Female infant Gray Unbaptised daughter of William and Jane Emily Goodenough 1861 Picot
203&204 Frances Elizabeth Gray Pearson 06/02/1892 Sinatt
George Thomas Gray 28.02.1944 Conery
George Wiskin Gray 16/02/1828 Sinatt
37a Harold Blackburn Gray 1969 Le Quesne
29a Henry Gray 1946 Le Quesne
212a,212b 59 Henry Basterfield Beckford Gray 1882 Sinatt
11773 James Alfred Thomas Gray 1919 Croad
18856 James William Perren Gray 1945 Croad
10832 Jane Catherine Gray 1917 Croad
173 105 Jane Maria Gray 1867 Sinatt
335 - 336 123 John Gray 15/12/1876 Sinatt
183,184 107 John Gray Infant 1894 Sinatt
44 John Gray 1913 Sinatt
12696 John Gray 1871 Picot
178a John Gray 1930 Le Quesne
John Edward Baskerville Gray 02/03/1936 Conery
John George Warburton Gray 31/12/1949 Conery
6048 Joseph Gray 1858 Picot
276b Joseph Henry Gray 1962 Le Quesne
5640 Kathleen Gray 1899 Croad
12311 Louisa Gray Perrin 1921 Croad
Louisa Gray Lambert 11/08/1955 Conery
Louisa Florence Gray Blanchard 11/07/1955 Conery
3936 Mabel Laura Gray 1893 Croad
181a,181b 189 Margaret Gray Hamilton 1882 Sinatt
12368 Maria Gray 1870 Picot
17 Mary Ann Gray Parker 1960 Pitcher
123 106 Mary Barratt Gray 1866 Sinatt
13 Mary Jane Gray Cairns 1925 Sinatt
194a Mary Jane Gray Penwell 1942 Le Quesne
252a Mary Jane Gray Le Breton 1956 Le Quesne
408 Mary Walton Gray 11/08/1852 Sinatt
7497 Moses Gray 1861 Picot
5754 Rachel Gray Deslandes Le Gros 1899 Croad
420 17 Robert Gray 1872 Sinatt
12691 Robert Edward Gray 1923 Croad
16271 Samuel William Gray 1935 Croad
14260 Sophia Johanna Gray Rolston 1928 Croad
275 Stanley Johnson Gray 1966 Pitcher
112 Stephen Henry Gray 1911 Sinatt
16559 Susanna Victoria Gray Warburton 1937 Croad
227 82 Thomas Gray 1877 Croad
519,520 Violet Annie Gray Lee 1922 Sinatt
387&388 William Gray 30/01/1893 Sinatt
122a122b William Gray 1897 Sinatt
227 126 William Gray 1875 Croad
3682 William Gray 1853 Picot
12445 William Gray 1870 Picot
10919 William Charles Gray 1917 Croad
57 William Cowan Gray 1967 Pitcher
226 31 William Crighton Gray 1869 Croad
275 William Henry Gray 03/03/1859 Sinatt
361 William Henry Gray 1938 Sinatt
375 51 William James Gray 1871 Sinatt
259&260 William Pearson Gray 16/05/1892 Sinatt
17512 William Pierson Gray 1939 Croad
262a, 262b Winifred Gladys Gray Le Roux 1943 Le Quesne
465A Basil Leslie Thomas Gray 1978 Pitcher and Le Quesne
392A Bessie Gray Thomas 1978 Pitcher and Le Quesne
438 Percival Gray 1978 Pitcher and Le Quesne
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