Le Cornu
A Le Cornu family
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Origin of surname
George Balleine does not offer any explanation for the derivation of the name, which is common today in Normandy and for which references have been found there as early as 1210 and 1305.
It is possibly derived from the ancient French cornu which means disagreeable. However, it may also have been derived from the pre-12th century French word Cornier, which describes a trumpeter or herald, and a position of considerable importance.
It is not a French Huguenot refugee surname, as the first of these are not thought to have arrived in Jersey until 1572, whereas the name was established in the island at least two centuries earlier.
Some French Le Cornus are known to have moved from France to England in the early 16th century, but this was at a date well after Le Cornus were first recorded in Jersey.
Others suggest that the name is an abbreviation of Le Cornuaillais, the Cornishman, or of La Cornouaille in Brittany, whose inhabitants had migrated ahead of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, from Cornwall to Brittany, retaining both names. Neither view found much original support. However, Stevens, Arthur and Stevens, in Jersey Place Names, Volume 1, wrote that "early forms of the name suggest its origin was in Cornwall rather than Brittany".
French sources offer further suggestions. Was it simply a name for someone with corns? Or did it refer to an unfaithful husband?
Early records
The name had not been thought to appear in any pre-15th century Channel Island records Assize Rolls and Extentes, but Charles Stevens' Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames notes a record from 1309. This, however, relates to Guernsey, not Jersey, and includes several mentions of Peter La Cornaille. This is of interest, however, as it illustrates the middle point in the mutation of the surname from Le Cornuaillais to Le Cornu.
Charles Langton`s early 20th century manuscript genealogy of the Jersey Le Cornus starts with Denys Le Cornu of St Mary (of the property now called Les Colombiers), Seigneur of Le Fief au Vesque in that parish in 1479 [1]. His son Abel was mentioned in the same deed. Abel`s son, Denys Le Cornu dit des Colombiers, married a woman named Catherine and was seigneur of the fief in 1568. The fief then passed in a female line to Denys Le Bosquet, who was probably his grandson. There was though, as shown by later litigation, a junior branch of this family, living from the mid-16th century in St Ouen, which had many descendants. This particular Le Cornu family, from its loyalty to the English Crown during the Lancastrian French Occupation of Jersey, 1461-1468, was latterly called Le Cornu dit Langeloyes.
Evidence of how well-established the family was in the north-west of Jersey in the mid-16th century is found in the number of different branches, which Court records suggest to have been at least eight. Variants of the surname also included Le Cornu dit Conpeyre and Le Cornu dit Hastingue.
One branch was descended from Thomas Le Cornu, son of Drouet, who married the daughter and heiress of Thomas L`Amiral, owner of the property of this name near St Ouen`s Church, whence the surname variant Le Cornu dit L`Amiral. A son is likely to have been the priest, Sire Jehan Le Cornu dit L`Amiral, who was living in 1550.
Drouet, Jo and Perrin are listed in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms borne by one family of this name in Picardy is almost unique, and probably the second most distinguished in history. It is no less than a blue cross on a white field, and as such is second only to the red cross of the crusaders, on the same background. It was granted to a Le Cornu in Picardy in approximately 1390, at the time of the great wars between France and England. No connection, though, has ever been found between that family and the Jersey Le Cornus.
The arms borne in the late 19th century by Colonel C P Le Cornu, the Seigneur of La Hague, featured three hunting horns.
Variants
- Le Cornu, 1309
- Le Cornu dit lengloyes 1479
- Le Cornu dit Conpeyre 1510
- Le Cornu dit des Coulombiers 1513
- Le Curnelle (Cornouaillais) 1528
- Le Cornu dit Lamiral 1550
- Le Cornue 1607
- Le Cornu dit Hastingue 1659
- Cors c1340
- Cornuele 1203
- Cornu
- Cornau
- Cornuau
- Cornier
Family records
Family trees
- Philippe Le Cornu: 17th-20th centuries
- Denys Le Cornu: 15th-19th centuries
- Elie Le Cornu: 17th-20th centuries
- Guillaume Le Cornu: 16th-20th centuries
- Jean Le Cornu: 15th-17th centuries
- Jean Le Cornu 2: 17th-20th centuries
- Jean Le Cornu 3: 18th-20th centuries
- Nicolas Le Cornu: 18th-19th centuries
- Philippe Le Cornu: 18th-20th centuries
- Philippe Le Cornu 2: 18th-20th centuries
- Pierre Le Cornu: 17th-21st centuries
Church records
- Le Cornu baptisms in Jersey
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- Le Cornu burials in Jersey
Biographies
- Charles Philip Le Cornu, aide-de-camp to three British monarchs
- John Le Cornu, emigrant to Australia
- Philip Le Cornu, another emigrant to Australia Added 2021
- Philip de Carteret Le Cornu, rose breeder and Jurat Added 2016
Newspaper records
- Thomas Le Cornu, 1848 land valuer
- Armand de Guelle appeared in the Police Court in January 1920 charged with the theft of fowls from Edmond Philip Le Cornu
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- La Hague Manor, St Peter
- Boulevard Avenue
- Ashley Court, St John
- Beau Parcq, Trinity
- Heath Mount, St Ouen
- Highfield, St Ouen
- Vinchelez de Bas Manor, St Ouen
- Les Geonnais Farm, St Ouen
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Susan Le Cornu announced the sale of land inherited from her late father Jean at Rouge Bouillon and in St Clement in this 1870 advert in Chronique de Jersey
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Le Cornu sisters photographed by Ernest Baudoux -
Doris Tostevin Le Cornu (1905-1992) and Ruby Charlotte Le Cornu (1908-1988) -
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Alfred and Mary Le Cornu, nee Tostevin, with Doris and Ruby -
Edith May Le Cornu (1893-1959), married Alfred Harry Lenaghan -
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Emma Tryphena Le Cornu, nee Cole, 1910 -
Ellen Mary Le Cornu's United States naturalisation certificate -
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Alfred Charles Le Cornu and Edith Emma, nee Metherell, Gladys, Olive -
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Elsie May Le Cornu (1905-1982) and Tom
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Francis Charles Le Cornu (1890-1960) and Lilian Edith, nee Marsh -
Francis Charles Le Cornu (1890-1960) and Lilian Edith, nee Marsh -
Bernhard Charles White and Doris Tostevin, nee Le Cornu -
Philip Edward and Mabel Susan Le Vesconte, nee Le Cornu -
1937 wedding of Stanley Le Cornu and Ruby Perry -
Philip Le Cornu (1850-) and Eliza, nee Starks, and Mabel -
Snowden Le Cornu(1913-2002) and Elsie May, nee Bichard -
Stanley Le Cornu (1912-1972) -
Marie Kerby, nee Le Cornu, (1823-1893) -
John Le Cornu and Gertrude, Grace and Stella -
John Le Cornu and Lucinda, nee King, with Grace Nelle -
John Le Cornu (1861-1948) -
John Le Cornu, four generations -
John Petit (1853-1935) and Alice Emily, nee Le Cornu, and their daughters -
John Petit, Alice Emily, nee LeCornu, Alice, Mabel and Edith -
Le Cornus at Allegro House, St Aubin's Road -
HildaJane,Amy Blanche and Eva Anna Le Cornu -
Jane Elizabeth Le Cornu (1857-)
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Eliza Le Cornu, nee Roberts, with her daughters Emily Rachel, Florence Eliza, Alice Jane, Ellen Mary and Caroline in about 1912. Eliza was the daughter of John and Rachel, nee Malzard, and married Alfred Edward Le Cornu (1850-1902) in St Lawrence in 1875. The couple also had five sons -
Emily Rachel Le Cornu, born in St Peter in 1885, emigrated with sisters Alice and Ellen to New Zealand in 1912, married Thomas Allport (1884-1963) in 1914 -
The 1914 wedding in New Zealand of Emily Rachel Le Cornu and Thomas Allport -
Elsie May Le Cornu (1905-1982) at the age of 18 -
Elsie May Le Cornu and her younger brother Joshua in 1908. Their parents were Josue John (1882-1974) and Amelie, nee Allez (1881-1954) -
Alice Emily Le Cornu in 1915. Born in St Saviour in 1878 she was the daughter of Joshua (1856- ) and Alice Eugenie, nee Mellingue (1857- ) She married John Petit (1853-1935) -
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The wedding of Snowden Le Cornu and Elsie Bichard -
Eddy and Hazel Le Cornu, nee Dawes, leave for their honeymoon -
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Helene Mary Barette, nee Le Cornu
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Occupation curfew cards
Curfew pass issued to Clifford Le Cornu during the Occupation as a member of the St Lawrence Honorary Police
Family businesses
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Charles Le Cornu retired from farming at La Hague Manor in 1920 and sold his livestock and equipment -
Charles Henwood Le Cornu was at Six Roads Farm, St Lawrence, in 1920 -
Josue Le Cornu advertised plants for sale at his shop at 1 Burrard Street in 1870
Wesley Flockhart Le Cornu (1872- ), the son of Adelaide furniture store founder Philip Le Cornu was a leading importer and seller of pianos in Adelaide in the 1910s and 1920s
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The prize vessel Nuesta Senora de Los Dolores, captured by Capt Philippe Le Cornu’s privateer Comis, was advertised for sale on 18 November 1805
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Philip Renouf Le Cornu, Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney -
Philip Le Cornu 1918
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