Masters burial records 1820-1978

Masters burial records

The records of Jersey's seven major undertakers from 1820 to the late 1970s are held by Jersey Archive and have been digitised and indexed by archive staff and volunteers. We previously provided family page listings of the records of Croad's, a single business, but have now combined all the records into a single new index and are progressively updating the lists in our family pages. The full records are available to subscribers to the Archive's online service. The entries within the volumes give vital family history information such as the name and age of the person buried, their immediate relations, the place and date of death, as well as place of burial - cemetery, location of grave and even the coffin's depth. Some records also give details of the deceased's occupation or public positions held. The first records, from 1867, in the Croad Livre de Remarques The books can be viewed on line or downloaded. Each set for each undertaker has an index which subscribers can view online or download. It can be a lengthy process searching for records because there are separate indexes for each funeral director and most do not give a date of burial. This means that several volumes may have to be accessed when searching for details of an ancestor's burial. Although the Archive website has a search facility which allows a search for individual names, the results can include all manner of other records in their catalogue and, unless the exact spelling of a name is known, the required record will not be found. Jerripedia has not only created a full A-Z index for all 66,000-plus records, with the year of burial included for the benefit of our users who have an Archive subscription, but we are adding indexes of records, such as this one, for individual families included in our 1,200-plus family pages, which include all the island's most important families. This link is to the Archive website page containing links to the seven sets of records. The page will open for everybody but only subscribers will be able to view the records Some records use page numbers and sequential record numbering. Most of the Archive indexes do not include dates. All our indexes and lists give dates, and having identified the undertaker and date of funeral from this listing you can then easily find the volume containing the record. The Archive indexes contain some very unusual spellings for common Jersey surnames. We are cross-checking these with the images of the undertaker's books and finding that most are errors of transcription, which can be corrected for our index, although the process of checking against the books is very time-consuming. Some of the handwriting in the books is very difficult to read, and there may also be errors in the entries. We are correcting names when we are entirely satisfied that a common surname has been wrongly entered or transcribed. Variations of common names which may be correct are included at the end of family name indexes, and have been left in the full A-Z indexes. Our advice is the same as it is with any other set of records included in Jerripedia. If you don't find an ancestor where you expect to, look for variations in spelling and, perhaps for names with or without prefixes, such as Le, La, L', de and du. Variations may appear next to records for names spelt in the standard form; they may also be some way out of sequence. Please note that the work of updating all our family page burial lists to include all funeral directors is not yet complete, and some pages still link to an incomplete listing for a single business. Note also that there were other undertakers in business over the years whose records are not included in this collection. For families with a significant number of records we have created a separate page, but when there are only a few records the link may be to an A-Z index page, and you will need to scroll through the alphabetical listing to find the family you are interested in. Burial records: Our main index to undertakers' registers, cemetery records and gravestone images

Page number	Record number	Forenames	Surname	Maiden name	Previous married name	Associated names	Notes	Year of burial	Funeral director
105			Masters					28/04/1849	Sinatt
	7129	Constance Jane Florence	Masters					1860	Picot
	11002	Elizabeth Louisa	Masters					1867	Picot
	6201	Elizabeth Marguerite	Masters					1858	Picot
	4580	Elizabeth Susan	Masters	Millman				1896	Croad
181a, 181b	112	Emily Flora	Masters					1902	Sinatt
305b		Florence	Masters	Long				1957	Le Quesne
		Francas	Masters					09/01/1826	Sinatt
496 and 497		Henry Clayton	Masters					1891	Sinatt
	3676	James	Masters					1853	Picot
69a69b		Jane Elizabeth	Masters					1896	Sinatt
	14699	John Henry	Masters					1930	Croad
319b		John Malcolm	Masters				Alias Frank Mercer	1964	Le Quesne
	6354	John Samuel	Masters					1902	Croad
13a		John Thomas	Masters					1945	Le Quesne
	3419	Marianne	Masters	Buckmaster				1852	Picot
	4616	Mary Ann	Masters					1855	Picot
219		Mary Jane	Masters				Daughter of Henry Payn Masters	09/07/1850	Sinatt
	7542	Raymond John	Masters					1906	Croad
	8483	Vera May	Masters					1909	Croad
153		Walter Leonard David	Masters					1975	Pitcher and Le Quesne
	3420	William John	Masters					1852	Picot
551&552		William Smith	Masters					15/09/1885	Sinatt