Le Cras
John Monet Le Cras, sitting outside the Opera House, where he was caretaker for many years
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Le Cras family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Le Cras, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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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
Le Cras is Breton for the small one, suggesting both the derivation and origin of this common Jersey surname. Strangely, none of our standard French references include the name.
Early records
The name first appears in 1299, and then in the Assize Roll of 1309 and once in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.
Guillemine Le Cras, who was born in St Lawrence (or possibly Trinity) in or about 1486, married Raoulin Langlois and they had five children
Le Cras can also be found in Guernsey as far back as the mid 1500s living in the St Saviour area.
Variants
- Le Cras, 1299
Family records
Family trees
There is considerable overlap between some of these trees and all should be researched together
- Edouard Le Cras: 17th-20th centuries
- Henry Le Cras: 17th-18th centuries
- Romain Le Cras: 18th-20th centuries
- Jacques Le Cras: 17th-20th centuries
- Jacques Le Cras 2: 17th-18th centuries
- Elie Le Cras: 17th-20th centuries
- Elie Le Cras 2: 18th-20th centuries
- Elie Le Cras 3: 18th-20th centuries
Church records
- Le Cras baptisms in Jersey
- Le Cras marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Le Cras marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Le Cras burials in Jersey
Biographies
- Abraham Le Cras, 19th century political activist
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- Lowlands, St Lawrence
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The house belonging to Anne Le Cras, nee Berry, widow of James, was advertised for sale by auction in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1795 -
In 1830 Philippe Le Cras advertised for sale his house near the Town Mill, with 20 perches of land and a water pump
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Family businesses
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1866 - Marine Villa offered for sale by perpetual lease by Matthieu Picot Le Cras -
A Le Cras (probably Abraham) advertised varnish for mahogany and ink for marking laundry at his shop 'below the old market', in this 1803 Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey advert. The 'old market' was held in what later became the Royal Square. It was still in use until 1806 while the 'new market' was being built on what became Halkett Place
Family album
Francis George Bisson Le Cras and his family
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Francis George, his wife Sarah, daughter Rebecca and one of his granddaughters -
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Bessie Jane, nee Phillips, second wife of son Philip George Bisson Le Cras -
Grandson Charles Francis Bisson Le Cras and his wife Lilian, nee Cheyney, celebrating their golden wedding -
Daughter-in-law Marie Gertrude, nee Bougeard (1878-1968), of St Brieux, wife of Charles Henry Bisson Le Cras -
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Granddaughter May Louisa Bisson le Cras (1899-1950)
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More Le Cras family pictures
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Rene Le Cras (1885- ) -
Advocate Philip Le Cras at a cattle show -
Philip George Bisson Le Cras -
Lily Le Cras, with her husband Helier Bisson and elder son Basil
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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Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery -
St John’s Church cemetery -
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery -
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery -
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery -
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery -
St Ouen parish cemetery -
St Ouen parish cemetery -
Philadelphie cemetery -
St Brelade Church cemetery -
Surville Cemetery -
Surville Cemetery
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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