Le Quesne
Walter Le Quesne in 1917 in the Royal Flying Corps
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Origin of Surname
From the old French for 'oak', the original Le Quesne probably lived by an oak tree.
Early records
The surname Quesnel is found in the Extente of 1331 and Le Quesne in that of 1528. Two Le Quesnes, Jean and Thomasse, are found in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.
Walter Le Quesne's history of The Le Quesnes of Jersey shows Clement Le Quesne (1440- ) as the earliest ancestor. Gautier Le Quen is shown as a Jurat of the Royal Court in 1318.
Payne's Armorial of Jersey
The old Norman family, or rather families, of Caineto, Kaiueto, or Quesneto, have existed from a very early period both in England and Jersey. Raoul de Kaineto was at Hastings with the Conqueror, and his grandson, William, is said to have made prisoner King Stephen, at Lincoln. From this source spring the various English houses of Chesney, Kaines, and others of less note.
A fief, named after this family, existed in Normandy in the time of Philip-Augustus, for in the roll of his fiefs it appears that "Domina de Quesneto tenet Quesnetum per servicium unius militis."
Sir Edmund de Chesney was Governor of the Channel Islands in 1366, where his family flourished for some generations.
The Jersey house of Le Quesne had settled in the island, and had attained social importance there, long prior to this date, for, in 1318, at the Pleas held at St Helier on the Tuesday after the feast of St Denis, Gautier Le Quen appears as one of the Jurats of the Royal Court, and in the Extente of 1331, Colin Le Quesne is recorded as one of the Surveyors of the King's Dues in the parish of St John, at that time styled St John de Caisnibus.
At the period of the Rebellion, John Le Quesne, of the parish of St John, suffered for his loyalty by paying the impost levied on the Royalists by the Republicans, as appears by an instrument dated 26 November 1655, and signed by Colonel Robert Gibbon, Governor, and Michael Lemprière, Bailly, of Jersey, under the Protector.
Several members of the family settled in London during the last century. The burial of Mrs Elizabeth Le Quesne occurs in the Registers of the parish of St Benet Fink. In 1739 Sir John Le Quesne, was an Alderman of London, and in the Registers of St Peter le Poor, is noted his marriage, by the Bishop of Norwich, with Miss Mary Knight, of Hampshire, a lady with a dowry of twenty thousand pounds. He died in 1741.
In the latter Registers are also noted the deaths of David Le Quesne, in 1753, and of Mrs Susanna Le Quesne, in 1760.
The eldest branch of the family is represented by John Le Quesne, of Mont à I'Abbé, and a second by Nicholas Le Quesne, [[Jurat] of the Royal Court, of Rouge Bouillon. To a younger branch belonged the late Nicholas Le Quesne, Jurat of the Royal Court, who died in 1847. The late Charles Le Quesne, Jurat of the Royal Court, and President of the Chamber of Commerce, was his eldest son. He was the author of "A Constitutional History of Jersey," and other works connected with the island, and was an active and intelligent member of the States of Jersey.
Arms
As borne by Nicholas Le Quesne: Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a crescent for difference
Impaling : Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a mullet for difference, for Le Quesne.
As borne by Giffard-Nicholas Le Quesne: Argent, a lion, passant, gules, a mullet for difference.
Impaling : Per fesse, or and sable, a pale counterchanged; in chief an ermine-spot of the first, between two trefoils, slipped, of the second ; in base a like trefoil between two like ermine-spots, a crescent for difference, for Simeon.
Motto : Suis ducibus ubique fidelis
Variants
- Caineto
- Kaiueto
- Quesneto
- La Quenesse
- Le Quen
- Quesnel, similar derivation but almost certainly a separate family in Jersey
Family records
Jersey family trees
- Clement Le Quesne: 15-19th centuries
- Clement Le Quesne 2: 18-20th centuries
- Clement Le Quesne 3: 18-19th centuries
- Helier Le Quesne: 18-20th centuries
- Jean Le Quesne: 18-20th centuries
- Jean Le Quesne 2: 18-20th centuries
- Leonard Le Quesne: 17-20th centuries
- Philippe Le Quesne: 19-20th centuries
- Raulin Le Quesne: 16-19th centuries
- Richard Le Quesne: 16-19th centuries
- Richard Le Quesne 2: 18-20th centuries
- Richard Le Quesne 3: 18-20th centuries
- Thomas Le Quesne: 15-18th centuries
Church records
- Le Quesne baptisms in Jersey
- Le Quesne marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Le Quesne marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Le Quesne burials in Jersey
Biographies
- Edward Le Quesne (1883-1957) - Politician and Occupation diarist
- The Jersey Leader (1935-1938), Edward Le Quesne's newspaper
- Ferdinand Simeon Le Quesne, one of only two Jerseymen to be awarded the Victoria Cross
- Le Quesne family members mentioned in a major history of privateering
- Sir Martin Le Quesne, diplomat and States member
Newspaper records
- Charles and William Le Quesne appointed to reservoir planning committee in 1848
- Charles Le Quesne involved in meeting concerning reform of the States in 1848
- William Le Quesne appointed St Helier Roads Inspector in 1848
- A Le Quesne was a crew member of the schooner Maria which was feared lost in 1848
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- Fernhill, St Helier
- Beau Desert, St Saviour
- Oak Place, St John
- Temple Villa, St John
- Quarryside Cottages, St John
- La Sergine, St John
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1833 advert in L'Impartial offering Nicolas Le Quesne's Rouge Bouillon house for sale -
Capt Le Quesne's 'genteel, convenient house, fit for the reception of a genteel family' at Georgetown was advertised for sale, in English, in Chronique de Jersey in 1824
Family businesses
- Le Quesne pharmacy
- Le Quesne burial records, index to records of the undertaker's business
- The Le Quesne family of Burrard Street, merchants and plumbers
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Nicolas Le Quesne advertised in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1803 that he had received a cargo of Newcastle charcoal which would be sold while unloaded from the brig Juno in the Harbour, and subsequently at a higher price -
Neel and Le Quesne, wine merchants of Burrard Street -
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Beer suppliers, Burrard Street, 1940 -
T Le Quesne, plumber of Burrard Street -
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T Le Quesne, plumber, Burrard Street -
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey -
Merchants Binet and Le Quesne traded in the 19th century at a large block between the Esplanade, Castle Street and Commercial Street -
Binet and Le Quesne, Esplanade merchants in 1886 -
Le Quesne, builder -
Mrs Le Quesne's guest house at 2 Kensington Villas -
Mrs Le Quesne's apartments at 23 Belmont Road -
Philip Le Quesne, manufacturer of sea sickness tablets -
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Le Quesne's pharmacy on the corner of Halkett Place and Waterloo Street, 1940 -
Funeral directors, 1940 -
Advert for Le Quesne funeral directors -
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H G Le Quesne's tobacco crop was requisitioned by the Germans in 1944 -
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1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey -
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey for Adolphus Thomas Le Quesne -
1889 Nouvelle Chronique advert -
1906 advert for Neel and Le Quesne -
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Advert from Jersey Leader, 1935 -
Ned Le Quesne was at 59 Halkett Place in 1920 -
Richard Le Quesne, of Vingtaine du Douet, St John, advertised three cows and farm equipment for sale in 1825 -
Nicholas Le Quesne and Charles Durell advertised sugar for sale in 1825 -
Nicolas Le Quesne’s grocery on the sands at St Helier advertised a variety of goods in 1804 -
Nicholas Le Quesne announced the arrival of a shipment of Newcastle coal in ‘’Gazette de l’Ile de Jersey’’ in 1803
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Nicolas Le Quesne advertised salt and rice for sale in ‘’Gazette de l’Ile de Jersey’’ in 1803 -
1900 advert
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Mrs Le Quesne had a boarding establishment at 23 Belmont Road; date unknown ... -
... was it the same Mrs Le Quesne who had a similar facility at 2 Kensington Villas? A W Le Quesne was here in 1910
Family album
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Walter Le Quesne at the wheel of his Alvis -
Charabanc driven by Walter Le Quesne -
A BE2 which Walter Le Quesne looked after in 1917 -
Florence and Walter John Le Quesne with Hilda, Ruth and Frank Hubert in 1922 -
Florence Le Quesne, nee Hubert -
Helen Le Quesne, nee de Gruchy -
Le Quesnes and Huberts at Magnet, Le Bourg -
Mechanic Walter Le Quesne on the wheel of a SE5 in 1917 -
Walter and Florence Le Quesne, nee Hubert, who married in 1920, with their son Walter John (1922- ) -
Walter, Florence and Walter Le Quesne -
Walter John Le Quesne out of step marching with cadets -
Walter Le Quesne outside 15 Pomona Road -
Walter Le Quesne (1887- ) was a motor mechanic at Le Feuvre's works in Don Street and G Benett's Paragon Garages -
Walter Le Quesne -
Walter Le Quesne -
Father and son, Walter and Walter John Le Quesne at Le Bourg -
Blacksmith Walter Le Quesne (1861- ) m (1886) Helen de Gruchy -
A glowing reference from 1907 -
Mr Le Quesne photographed by Ernest Baudoux -
Mr Le Quesne -
N Le Quesne -
Col G Le Quesne -
P Le Quesne -
Edward Le Quesne -
Mrs William Le Quesne -
A Le Quesne family portrait -
Walter and Florence Le Quesne -
Walter Le Quesne -
Le Quesne family -
Le Quesne family in 1920 -
A photograph of Le Quesne children in the 1870s by Ernest Baudoux -
Le Quesnes and Huberts at Le Bourg -
Edward John Vibert (1849- ) of St Ouen, and Ada Mary Le Quesne (1859-1941) -
Vibert family: Clara Allo, Annie Symons, Blanche Le Marquand, Laura Ahier, Ada Vibert, Frederick Ahier and Edward Vibert at Woodlands, St Ouen in 1919 -
Wedding photograph of Edward John Vibert and Ada Mary Le Quesne -
Frank Philip Le Quesne -
Thomas Daniel Le Quesne -
Charles John Le Quesne (1859-1929) at the gates of Beau Desert, St Saviour, which he bought in 1920 -
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Jeanne Le Quesne, nee Dorey -
Nicolas Le Quesne, Constable of Trinity -
Philip Walter Le Quesne (1880-1952) and Florence Maude Marie, nee Spencer (1874-1951), daughter of Sarah Marie and John Philip Spencer, who married in St Helier in 1901 and had a daughter and a son. Florence took her father's name after her parents married two years after her baptism as Marie -
Roy Francis Le Quesne and Sarah Esther, nee Knight, with their children -
Charles John Le Quesne (1859-1926) with Susannah Anne, nee De Faye and Frank(1890- ) -
Eliza Ophelia Le Quesne
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Occupation curfew cards
Curfew pass issued to Edgar Le Quesne during the Occupation as a member of the Honorary Police [1]
Family gravestones
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St Lawrence -
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Philip Nelson Le Quesne, Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille -
George Le Quesne, Bard Cottage Cemetery, Ieper -
A Le Quesne family grave in New Zealand
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Notes and references
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