Horn burial records 1820-1978

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Horn 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
1992 Ann Horn Colling Wilson 1849 Picot
4716 Anthony Horn 1855 Picot
1 Charles Autin Horn 1928 Sinatt
279A Cyril Percy Horn 1977 Pitcher and Le Quesne
147b Doris May Horn Compton 1966 Le Quesne
56b Edith Mary Horn Mouet 1969 Le Quesne
86a, 86b Ellen Horn Brehaut 1952 Le Quesne
218b Ema Henrietta Horn Poingdestre 1953 Le Quesne
275a Florence Edith Horn Baudet 1968 Le Quesne
292b George Thomas Horn 1944 Le Quesne
164a, 164b Henry Hastings Horn 1951 Le Quesne
9799 Humphrey Bardon Horn 1865 Picot
326b Infant Horn 1968 Le Quesne
151b Ivy May Horn Corbin 1966 Le Quesne
186a James Rufus Horn 1964 Le Quesne
1992 John Albert Horn 1887 Croad
6906 Louisa Horn 1860 Picot
129a Marion Isabelle Horn Esnouf 1929 Le Quesne
275a Oliver William Horn 1956 Le Quesne
11897 Sarah Emily Horn Hosking 1920 Croad
60b Thomas Henry Horn 1960 Le Quesne
13998 Thomas William John Horn 1927 Croad
182b William James Horn 1941 Le Quesne
5252 Albert Edward Hornbrook 1856 Picot
5251 Alfred Charles Hornbrook 1856 Picot
5286 Jabez William Hornbrook 1856 Picot
323,324 49 Mary Ann Hornbrook Strong 1895 Sinatt
17979 Annie Eliza Honorine Hornby de La Taste 1941 Croad
18027 Gerard Hornby 1941 Croad
150 James Hornby 1844 Picot
99&100 Mellish Hornby 02/09/1891 Sinatt
21188 Philip Florance Hornby 1955 Croad
409 130 Amy Jane Horne Huxham 1871 Sinatt
115a Arnold Cecil Horne 1961 Le Quesne
113 78 Charles Sarkin Horne 1866 Sinatt
79a Edwin William Horne 1966 Le Quesne
183 George Edward Lancelot Horne 1977 Pitcher and Le Quesne
280 Hester Horne 28/03/1851 Sinatt
128 37 John Horne 1905 Sinatt
20306 Margaret Jane Horne Browning 1951 Croad
57a57b Martha Catherine Hunter Horne Nicholson 1896 Sinatt
885 Reginald Cossey Horne 1883 Croad