Le Riche
This surname, or variants, can be found back to the 13th century in Jersey
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Ellen Maud Le Riche (1878-1973), daughter of Charles (1847- ) and Mary Elizabeth, nee Bisson (1845- ), married Wallace Walton Coomes in West Ham in 1904
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Origin of Surname
The original Le Riche was probably a rich man, although other suggestions have been made for the derivation of the name, which appears not to feature among the earliest of Jersey records. However, many of those records were Extentes, being charges owed to the Crown on Crown fiefs. The early Le Riches are known to have held their land on the privately owned fiefs of Petit Rosel, Saval and Vanaise, and would, most likely, not feature in early Extentes.
The name probably has a number of distinct and separate origins. It may have developed from a nickname for a wealthy man, derived from the Middle English, Old French term "riche". The origin may also be the medieval English given name "Rich", usually a short form of the male personal name Richard, but also, in some cases, from any of the other compound names with the same first element, such as "Richer".
Richard is an Old Germanic personal name, composed of the elements "ric", power, with "hard", hardy, brave, strong; the name is found occasionally in Anglo-Saxon England, but was popularized by the Normans after the Conquest of 1066. Finally, the surname Rich, also found as Riche, Ritch and Ritchman, may be of Anglo-Saxon origin, and a topographical or locational name deriving from the Olde English term "ric", stream, drainage channel.
Early recordings include: Mosse le Riche (1195, Gloucestershire), Ricardus de la Riche (1200, Hampshire), and William Riche (1296, Sussex). A Coat of Arms granted to the family is quarterly gold and azure, a chevron between three roundles, each charged with a lion rampant all counterchanged. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Godwinus Le Riche, which was dated 1177, in the "Pipe Rolls of Lincolnshire", during the reign of King Henry 11.
Early records
Although there are suggestions that the name has been present in Jersey, in one form or another, since the 13th century, we have been unable to confirm that these records have any connections with later Le Riches. However, Macy Le Riche, from whom a connected line of descent can be proved from court and legal record, and who would have been born in about 1400, is the first of a long line of Le Riches of Le Catel, Trinity and of St Martin. His birth might even have been in the closing years of the 14th century, so there is little reason to doubt an earlier connection.
Le Riche is found in the Extente of 1528 and Raynold Le Riche appears in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.
Variants
- Le Riche, c1340
- Rykeys 1236
- Leriche, Normandy form
Family records
Family trees
- David Le Riche: 18th-20th centuries
- Matthieu Le Riche: 15th-19th centuries
- Thomas Le Riche: 17th-19th centuries
- Thomas Le Riche 2: 17th-20th centuries
- Philippe Le Riche: 17th-20th centuries
- Thomas Le Riche 3: 17th-19th centuries
- Jean Le Riche: 18th-20th centuries
- Edmond Le Riche: 16th-20th centuries
Church records
- Le Riche baptisms in Jersey
- Le Riche marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Le Riche marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Le Riche burials in Jersey
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family properties
Family businesses
- Le Riches Stores
- F J Le Riche was a draper and tailor at 14 King Street in the 1880s
- Thomas Le Riche was a woollen draper at 19 King Street in the 1840s and '50s
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S Le Riche advertised sugar at his Colomberie shop in Chronique de Jersey in 1880
Occupation curfew cards
Curfew pass issued to S E Le Riche during the Occupation as a member of the St Brelade Honorary Police [1]
Family album
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David Thomas Le Riche, Philip John Le Riche, Mrs Helleur (aunt), Edwin David Le Riche, Lilian May Le Riche, Stanley Francis Le Riche, George Ernest Le Riche, Elizabeth Carteret Le Riche, nee Helleur, Walter George Le Riche -
Alice Jane Le Riche (1865-1916) with her daughter Eva Annie (1892- ), who married George Rust -
Charles Le Riche, born at Gorey in 1836, the son of Hugh (1801- ) and Nancy Anne, nee Ahier (1803-1874) -
Catherine Melina Vines (1843- ) who was the second wife of Charles Le Riche -
Arthur Le Riche, son of Charles and Melina, nee Vines, with his family in Wales -
R Le Riche (back row, right) was a member of the league champions BOBA football team in 1946-47 -
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Frederick John Le Riche (1897-1961) and David
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Notes and references
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