Labey

Labey family page

Labey is the modern spelling of a family name originally l'Abbé, meaning 'abbot'

Jersey Museum collection portrait of Eliza Labey

Record Search

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

Labey derives from l'Abbé, the French for abbot. It was also used to describe someone who conducted themselves like an abbot, while not necessarily being a cleric. Spelt Labbé it is a common surname in Normandy today.

Early records

It is one of the earliest of Jersey surnames, traceable back to Colin Labey, who was living in 1309. It appears in the Extente of 1528, but not in earlier official medieval documents.

Thomas Labey, of Grouville, born in 1490, was the father of Perronelle, born in Grouville in 1510, who married Jean Bertram of St Martin

Labey baptisms occur in the parish registers from 1542 onwards.

Variants

• Labey 1461
• Labbé
• L'Abbé
• L'Abbey
• Labby
• Le Abbey
• L'Able
• Laby 1607
• Labbey 1528
• Labbey Englois 1400

Family records

Family trees

The Labey family lived mainly in Grouville, and in the neighbouring parishes of St Saviour and St Clement. Of the total of 298 baptisms in our database, 253 were in these three parishes, 162 of them in Grouville. There is considerable overlap between these eight trees, and several links between them

• Colin Labey: 14th-20th centuries
• George Josue Labey: 18th-20th centuries
• Jean Labey: 15th-21st centuries
• Jean Labey 2: 16th-17th centuries
• Jean Labey 3: 18th-21st centuries
• Philippe Labey: 17th-20th centuries
• Pierre Labey: 18th-21st centuries
• Thomas Labey: 18th-20th centuries

Church records

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

Biographies

• Pierre Labey, privateer
• Other Labey family members mentioned in a major history of privateering

Newspaper records

• Armand de Guelle appeared in the Police Court in January 1920 charged with the theft of fowls from Edmond Le Cornu. Centenier P F Labey brought the prosecution

Great War service

• Labey family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Labey family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Labey burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• La Fontaine
• Le Boulivot, Grouville
• Le Câtillon de Bas, Grouville
• Home Farm, Grouville

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  Philippe Labey, on behalf of his wife Jane, nee du Parcq, advertised their Grouville house with 28 vergees of land for sale in 1825
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  Pierre and Thomas Labey, living near the St Aubin chapel, advertised the sale of furniture before their departure from the island

Family album

The Labeys take a break from work in 1937

Click on any image to see a full-size version

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  An unidentified Mrs Labey, photographed by Henry Mullins in the mid-19th century
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  Dr Julius Labey of La Fontaine, Grouville, with his wife Ada (nee Gruchy) and children Cecil and Julius
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  A Labey family picnic
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  Matilda Labey
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  Mrs Labey
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  'Boss' Labey
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  Elizabeth Rosemary Labey (1925-2002) with her mother Edith. Elizabeth married Roy William Mann
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  Elizabeth Rosemary Labey
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  The wedding of Donald Charles Labey (1890-1970), son of Charles John and Hannah Laurens, to Edith May Ward (1895-1946)
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  At the Labey/Ward wedding
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  Donald Charles Labey
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  Donald Charles Labey
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  Donald Charles Labey, Head Scoutmaster in Jersey
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  Donald Charles Labey
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  L J Labey, Wanderers footballer in the 1900s
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  R J Labey, of Home Farm, Grouville, in 1966
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  An 1870s portrait by Ernest Baudoux
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  J W Labey
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  John William Labey
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  Nellie Wymark Labey, nee Hoar
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  Philippe Labey (1826- )
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  Raymond John Labey
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  Eliza Labey, nee Blampied
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  Avril Alice Labey, Mary Jane Mauger and Florence Marie Vibert

3rd or East Regiment of Royal Jersey Militia: Commissions to Thomas Labey. The first appoints him First Lieutenant in the regiment and is dated 20 April 1811; signed by Lieut-General George Don, Governor of Jersey. The second is dated 17 June 1816 and is signed by Major-General Hugh Mackay Gordon, Lieut-Governor and Commander in Chief of the island

Family businesses

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  1910 advert in the Chronique de Jersey by William John Labey

Family gravestones

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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Labey memorial at Grouville
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  Labey memorial at Grouville

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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