Luce

Luce family page

A 19th century photograph of an unknown Master Luce

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Luce family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Luce, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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Origin of Surname

Luce is French for Lucia, a name made popular by St Lucy. Six French villages with churches dedicated to her are called Ste Luce. There was also a St Luce, Pope in the 3rd Century.

However, the name may also derive via the French from the Latin lucius - a woodcutter.

The name has been prevalent in Normandy over the centuries and is fairly common there today.

Early records

Sire Piers Luce is included in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 and the name appears in the Extente of 1528.

Payne's Armorial of Jersey

The family of Luce, settled in the parish of St Lawrence prior to 1500, claims to have migrated from Wales, and to be a branch of the famous Norman house of Lucy, or Lucie, settled in England since the Conquest. This house represents a branch of the family of Le Brocq, and that of Le Bailly, of St Mary, to which latter belonged the philanthropic Jeanne Le Bailly, the wife of Thomas Denton, of St Aubin, whose benefactions to the poor of the island, and to the parochial hospital of St Brelade, have rendered her name sacred among her countrymen.

Variants

• de Lucy
• de Lucie
• Lucey

Family records

Family trees

• Edouard Luce: 17th-20th centuries
• Edouard Luce 2: 18th-20th centuries
• Jean Luce: 17th-18th centuries
• Jean Luce 2: 18th-20th centuries
• Jean Luce 3: 18th-20th centuries
• Laurens Luce: 15th-17th centuries
• Moyse Luce: 16th-20th centuries
• Perrin Luce: 15th-19th centuries
• Perrin Luce 2: 15th-19th centuries
• Philippe Luce: 18th-20th centuries
• Raulin Luce: 17th-18th centuries
• Thomas Luce: 18th-20th centuries

Church records

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• Luce baptisms in Jersey
• Luce marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Luce marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Luce burials in Jersey

Biographies

• John Luce, mariner

Newspaper records

• John Luce appointed vraic officer in 1848

Great War service

• Luce family members who served in World War 1
• Presentation to Lance-Corporal John Allix Luce, MM, at the Town Hall

Family wills

• Luce family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Luce burial records 1820-1978

Emigrants to Canada

• John Luce's petition for land in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
• William Luce's petitions for land in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Election

In 1866 after receiving a deputation, Philippe Luce agreed to stand for election as Deputy of St Brelade against Dr Low. The Chronique de Jersey reported that Dr Low had expressed a wish to withdraw but decided to stand. They newspaper gave him 'little chance of success'. It was wrong. The results of the election, which attracted no further comment from the newspaper, showed that Dr Low beat Mr Luce by 82 votes to 60

Family homes

• Highcliff, St John
• La Chesnaie, St Lawrence
• La Grande Maison, St John
• Albany House, St Lawrence

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  In 1824 Elie Luce announced in Chronique de Jersey that he was selling a building plot on Mont Cambré (Cambrai)
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  The administrators of Thomas Luce advertised his houses and land near the Hospital for sale in ‘’Gazette de l’Ile de Jersey’’ in 1803

Family businesses

• Luce's Eau de Cologne
• A Mrs Luce was in partnership with a Mrs Falle as drapers at 66 King Street from 1885 to 1903
• Thomas Luce was a boot and shoe maker at 40 Halkett Place in the 1860s and '70s

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  1881 advert
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  1890
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  1922
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  1859
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  Luce's eau de cologne advert from 1919 ...
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  ... and one from 1901
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  1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey for tailor Henry Luce
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  Ernest Luce was farming at Albion House, St Lawrence in 1924 and advertised in the Chronique de Jersey
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  1930 advert in Chronique de Jersey

Family album

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  Postcard to Mrs Luce of St Lawrence from her son in Canada in 1909
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  The other side of the postcard

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  Ann Luce
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  Frank Helier Luce, 1917
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  Lydia Grace Luce and George
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  Lydia Grace Luce (1848- )
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  Prescelia Luce
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  Esther Richardson, nee Luce, c1872
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  Frank Helier Luce, 1902
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  A postcard sent to Mrs F Luce, of Westbourne House, St Lawrence, in 1909
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  Mary Ann Martin, nee Luce
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  Ted and Jim Luce
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  Louis Philip Luce, son of Philip and Louisa, nee Hacquoil (St Helier), a champion swimmer
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  Ernest Philip and Muriel Gladys Luce, nee Norman
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  Lydia Grace de Vaumorel Du Pre, nee Luce, and Matilda, Florence and William
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  Mary Elizabeth Luce (1856-1903)
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  Philip John Luce (1864-)
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  Philip Jona Luce (1896-)
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  John Francis Luce (1894-1959)
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  John Francis Luce
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  Philip Jona Luce (1896-) and Helen Elise Mary, nee Le Moignan
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  Annie Louisa Susan Gelston, nee Luce (1866-1939)
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  Master Luce photographed in the mid-19th century by Henry Mullin s

Felicite Louise Coatanoan (1901- ), who married John Philip Luce at St Ouen in 1928. There were four sisters, all born in Trinity. Their parents were Louis Marie Coatanoan and Felicite, nee Coatanoan, from Pleubian in the Cotes d'Armor department of Brittany. The Trinity birth registers have Adeline Yvonne (1897- ), Anne Marie Yvonne and Elsie May, but not Felicite, But she is shown in the 1911 census as born in Trinity about 1901, and the same in her marriage record

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  Edward Luce's second mate certificate
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  A card received by Solicitor H Luce from a friend in Laufen internment camp during World War 2
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  The message on the card - sunbathing in internment

The occupant of the wheelchair is believed to be Lydia Dupre, nee Luce, and the location Le Hocq. Lydia Grace Vaumerel Luce (1848-1901) married James Joslin Dupre at St Helier in 1869. Although the picture gives the impression that the occupant of the wheelchair was rather old and inform, if it was Lydia Dupre, she could not have been older than 53, the age at which she died

Rogues gallery

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  William Charles Day Luce (48), of St Helier, was convicted of forgery by the Royal Court in 1914 and sentenced to four months prison with hard labour. This picture is part of an album of photographs of prisoners convicted by the Royal Court which are held by Jersey archive.

Family gravestones

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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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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Les Quennevais cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Peter’s Church cemetery
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  Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St John’s Church cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Peter parish cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Saviour
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  St Saviour
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  St Lawrence
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  Philip John Luce, Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs
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  A gravestone in Niagara, Ontario, commemorating Francis Luce and his wife Jane, nee Bisson, who were born and died in the same years

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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