Kelly

Kelly family page

Numerous people with this common English and Irish surname have settled in Jersey. This page includes a link to an interesting Irish military family which moved to the island in the 19th century

Detail from a Jacques Tissot painting of Kathleen Kelly

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Kelly family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Kelly, 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

The name may have Irish, Scottish or English orgins. It is, of course, possible that it developed separately in all three countries in the dim, distant past, for it is a very old surname. The suggested Irish derivation is from the old Gaelic name "O'Ceallaigh". The name may also come from the lands of Kelly, near Arbroath, derived from the Gaelic coille for wood or grove, or from the Devonshire village recorded as 'Kelli' in the 1194 Pipe Rolls, also from the Gaelic for 'grove'.

Early records

The name made its first appearance in Jersey church registers in 1793 with the baptism of William son of John Kelly and Catherine, in St Brelade.

Variants

• Kelly
• Kelley
• Kelli

Family records

Family trees

• Frederick Ashburnham Kelly: 18th-21st centuries
• James Kelly: 19th-20th centuries

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Family histories

• Charles Frederick Ashburnham Kelly

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Kelly 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

• Patrick Kelly 25 February 1853 - D/Y/A/28
• Margaret Kelly née O'Connor, 78 New Street, St Helier - 22 April 1942, D/Y/A/109
• Thomas Kelly, 2 Hautbois Terrace, St Helier - 8 October 1913, D/Y/A/72
• Patrick Kelly, 5 Parade Square, Cannon Street, St Helier - 6 August 1910, D/Y/A/69
• Elizabeth Kelly, widow of James Murphy - 21 April 1944, D/Y/A/112
• Alice Kelly, wife of Thomas Charles Silvester, 4 Peirson Road, St Helier - 26 March 1943, D/Y/A/110

Burial records

• Kelly burial records 1820-1978

Great War service

• Thomas Kelly, Private in Royal Jersey Garrison Battalion

Family album

An unknown Mrs Kelly photographed in the 19th century by Henry Mullins

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  Ethel Ruth Kelly, nee Falle (1893-1983) daughter of Charles Henry and Ann Mary
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  Ann Mary Falle (1867-1942) and her granddaughter Gladys Muriel Kelly (1918-2003)
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  Mabel Ellen Kelly (1898-)
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  Ann Kelly, nee Joyce (1837-1899)

Family businesses

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  1881 advert

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

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  St Ouen's Church cemetery
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence

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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