Le Gros

Le Gros family page

Gervaise Le Gros (1831-1921) Seigneur de Mélèches, Advocate, Greffier, Viscount and Jurat

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Origin of surname

The derivation of the name is from the French for 'large' or 'fatty'.

Early records

This family name appears in Jersey at the end of the 13th century, and in Guernsey at the beginning of the same century. The name first appears in the Assize Roll of 1309. There are two family members, Robert and Thomas, mentioned in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550

Thomas le Gros and sons were involved in the building of the Hospital (after a fire), Victoria and Albert Piers, Bonne Nuit, and Creux Harbour, Sark.

Variants

• Le Gros, 1255
• Gros, 1331
• Le Groas 1299
• Le Gros Bisson is a separate family and we have now separated records for this family from Le Gros in our database

Payne's Armorial of Jersey

This name shares the antiquity common to all cognomens derived from personal accessories, and occurs very early in the annals of the Channel Islands. It frequently appears in the official Records of Guernsey of the 13th century. In 1204 John Le Gros was a Jurat of the Royal Court of that island; and in 1248 Peter Le Gros, or Grosse, appears as one of the Inquisitors appointed to declare before the Justices-Itinerant, the services, customs, and liberties, of its people.

In 1292 the name appears in Jersey, in an instrument dated on St Clement's Day, in that year. By the Extente of 1331, Guille Le Gros appears as one of the twelve sworn men called upon to declare the King's rights and dues in the parish of St John. In the latter part of the 16th century a member of the family settled in England, who is described, in a deed under his hand and seal, concerning certain property which he held at Peckham, as Peter Le Grose late of Her Majesty's Isle of Jersey.

Another of the name settled in Sark, soon after its colonization by the Seigneur of St Ouen, and was possessed of one of the forty freeholds of that island. Several of his descendants were “Juges et Capitaines de I'isle de Sere" ; one of whom, John Le Gros, was Judge there, and married Elizabeth Le Pelley of Guernsey. He left one son, who died without issue, and three daughters : Mary, wife of Philip Slowley; Elizabeth, wife of John De Jersey ; and Susan, wife of Nicholas Le Pelley; which latter subsequently purchased the Seigneurie of Sark of the descendants of James Milner, of Weston Green, Surrey, who became its possessor in 1721, by purchase of the trustees of Sir Charles Carteret.

In the churchyard of St Saviour is a cenotaph to the memory of Capt John Le Gros, RN, an officer of no mean reputation; he married a sister of Admiral D'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon, and left an only daughter, who died unmarried.

Among the various branches of this widely diffused family is one which settled, in the beginning of the 17th century, in the parish of St Helier, in the person of Elias Le Gros, who enjoyed a small estate there, in right of his wife, Mary Dumaresq. From him descends Gervais Le Gros, of Jesus College, Cambridge, the Greffier of Jersey. (See Seafield)

Another branch has been located for several centuries in the parish of Trinity; one of whose sections is represented by John Le Gros Esq., MRCS., Eng., LRCP., Edin. John Le Gros, Constable of St Lawrence, represents a third branch of the family.

Arms

As borne by Gervais Le Gros: Azure, three lions, rampant, or; a chief, argent.

Impaling: Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a mullet for difference, for Le Quesne.

Crest : A dexter arm, embowed, ppr, vested gules, holding by the blade a sword, point downwards, argent, hilted, or.

Motto : In Deo confido.

Family records

Family trees

• Pierre Le Gros: 17th century
• Pierre Le Gros 2: 18th-20th centuries
• Philippe Le Gros: 18th-20th centuries
• Robin Le Gros: 16th-18th centuries
• Jacques Le Gros: 17th-19th centuries
• Jean Le Gros: 18th-20th centuries
• Jacques Le Gros 2: 18th-20th centuries
• Raulin Le Gros: 18th century
• Pierre Le Gros 2: 17th-18th centuries
• Benest Le Gros: 17th-19th centuries
• Jean Le Gros 2: 18th century
• Elie Le Gros: 18th-20th centuries
• Jean Le Gros 3: 18th-20th centuries
• Elie Le Gros 2: 17th-20th centuries
• Philippe Le Gros 2: 18th-20th centuries
• Jean Le Gros 4: 16th-20th centuries

Family histories

• History of the Le Gros family
• The Le Gros family of builders

Church records

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• Le Gros baptisms in Jersey
• Le Gros marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Le Gros marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Le Gros burials in Jersey

Newspaper records

• T Le Gros involved in meeting concerning reform of the States in 1848
• Royal Court considered election contested by John Le Gros and George Bigrel
  
  
  
  

Great War service

• Le Gros family members who served in World War 1
• Presentation to Sergeant Charles Aubin Le Gros, MM, at the Town Hall

Family wills

• Le Gros family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Le Gros burial records 1820-1978

Family houses

• Seafield
• Millbrook House
• Handois Manor
• St Blaise, St John
• Mont Cochon Farm, St Helier

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  Nicolas Le Gros, of St Martin, advertised a house for sale on the Trinity Main Road in Chronique de Jersey in 1830
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  Michel Le Gros advertised 70 King street for sale in 1830 ...
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  ... perhaps it did not sell because Jean Le Gros, of Millbrook Cottage, advertised the same property ten years later in 1840
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  In 1825 Jean Le Gros advertised the auction sale of his house near Le Hocq, St Clement. in Chronique de Jersey

Family album

A Le Gros family photograph from the late 1800s

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  Mrs Le Gros
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  Mrs D J Le Gros
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  Capt Le Gros
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  H E Le Gros
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  Augustus Le Gros, Dialect poet and co-Founder of La Société Jersiaise
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  Augustus Le Gros--the same, as to left
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  Charles Sydney Le Gros
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  Gervaise Le Gros (1831-1921) Advocate, Greffier, Viscount and Jurat
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  Florence Maud Le Gros, Occupation identity card details
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  Rachel Pepin, nee Le Gros
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  Ernest Harold Folingsby Le Gros (1863-1939) son of John and Ellen Chinnery, nee Britton, married Alice Copland (1881-1947)
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  First Tower defender E Le Gros, featured on a Simonet cigarette card in 1925
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  John Edwin Le Gros (1876-1936) and his family. Wife Aglacee (Adele), nee Vasselin, and their five surviving children in about 1915 - Lilian Maud (1901-1954), Violet Muriel (1906-1975), twins George Edward (1910-1982) and Edward George (1910-1970) and Wilfred Lionel (1912-1970)
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  Lilian le Gros (1844-1977), daughter of Francis and Louisa Ann, nee Copp, in Normandy in 1951
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  A postcard sent from Dresden, Germany, to May Le Gros at Millbrook Villa in 1910. May Irene Le Gros was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Le Gros and was then eight years old. She had an elder sister Gladys
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  Four generations: Elizabeth Le Gros, Elizabeth Jane Corbel, Ella May Norman and George and Francis Simon
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  Four generations: Elizabeth Le Gros, Elizabeth Jane Corbel, Ella May Norman and George Simon
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  Rachel Le Gros (1817-1892)
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  Raymond Walter Le Gros, 1915
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  Hedley Gordon Le Gros and Margaret, nee Perrot
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  John Arthur Vallois and Alfreda Phyllis, nee Le Gros
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  May Gruchy Le Gros, nee Bauche (1897-1949)
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  Philip John LeGros and Rozelle Blanche, nee Le Ruez

Captain Clement Le Gros

Clement Le Gros, the son of farmer Jean and Anne, Nee Clement, was born in St Lawrence in 1837. He married Jane Nicolle in the same parish in 1868. He obtained his master's certificate in 1865 and was captain of the Ocean Bride in 1873 when she was sailing out of Sydney, Australia.

A crewlist for an Ocean Bride voyage from Port Louis to Sydney in 1873 shows him as Master, with a number of Jerseymen in his crew, including Charles Perchard, Francis Alexander and Philip Hamon. Ocean Bride was built in Jersey but Clement Le Gros is not listed as a sea captain in John Jean's Jersey Sailing Ships, and we have been unable to identify him in any of our Le Gros family trees.

He had retired from the sea by 1880, when he was elected Constable of St Lawrence. He was elected a Jurat nine years after that.

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  Clement Le Gros' master's certificate
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  Ocean Bride, a picture of an Ouless painting
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  Crewlist for Ocean Bride voyage from Port Louis to Sydney in 1873.

Le Gros in Canada

These pictures are of from an album of Le Gros family members who emigrated to Canada

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  Thomas Le Gros (1871-1952) and Charlotte 'Holly' Harbour
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  Lydia Florence Le Gros (1872- ) the daughter of Thomas Nicolas (1836-1901) and Amelia Georgina des Reaux (1848-1901), photographed by Tynan Brothers before 1893. She married Henry George Anthony (1870-1947) in 1895, and they had two children
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  John Arthur Le Gros, by Tynan Brothers
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  Annie Mary Le Gros
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  This picture is annotated Messervy and Le Gros. Annie May Le Gros (1872-1913) married Philip Charles Messervy. Is she photographed with her daughter? Or are these two images of Annie May, combined by the photographer?
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  Emily Le Gros, nee Le Gresley
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  John James Le Gros, Emily's husband
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  An unknown Le Gros sextet. This photograph is simply annotated 'Le Gros' in the album
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  A Le Gros trio photographed by H Etasse in 1890

Family businesses

• John Le Gros was a draper at 56 King Street in the 1840s
• Ironmonger Jean Le Gros was in business in the 1830s at 13 Queen Street, followed by his son up to the 1860s

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  1795 newspaper adverts, including one regarding the sale of Anne Le Gros' house
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  In 1803 George Le Gros advertised in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey barley and flour for sale at his house near the prison ...
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  ... this earlier advert, which referred to his previous partnerthip with Mr Picot, described his premises as a shop
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  1857 advertisement
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  1859
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  Le Gros works entrance on the Esplanade
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  Thomas Le Gros announced in Chronique de Jersey in 1824 that he had taken a shop in Halkett Place next to the Independent Chapel and opposite Abraham Giffard's house and had a wide range of quincaillerie (hardware) on offer. He also advertised his availability for carpentry work
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  Alfred Le Gros, of Maufant, St Saviour, advertised the services of his bull in Chronique de Jersey in 1874
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  1920 advert in the Chronique de Jersey by Francis Clarence Le Gros, who took over his father Francis George's dairy herd at Les Vaux, St Lawrence
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  G Le Gros announced the availability of Bridgewater tiles in Chronique de Jersey in 1825
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  Jean Le Gros, son of Jean, of St Martin, advertised the sale of livestock, furniture and farm equipment in 1815
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  George Le Gros advertised wines and spirits from his Rue de Derriere premises in Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1807. The street had not been numbered then so it is not possible to associate Le Gros' business with particular premises
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  George Le Gros still had a grocery in Rue de Derriere in 1808

Family gravestones

Family gravestone in St Lawrence Church cemetery

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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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