Mauger
Judith Mauger (1803-1881) with her daughter Elizabeth Tardiff (1830-1911)
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Origin of Surname
There are differing opinions about the origins of this very old surname, which came to the Channel Islands from Normandy. Noms de Famille de Normandie suggests that it started out as a medieval personal name 'Maugier', derived from the Germanic personal name 'Madalgari', a combination of madal (gathering together, or advice) and -gari (lance). Alternatively it comes from the Germanic 'Amalgari', which has a similar derivation.
These options are confirmed by our other major French source, probably consistent with Jersey sources which say that Mauger was the Norman form of the Frankish Maethelgaer.
It is elsewhere suggested that this is a name of different Germanic origins - a medieval nickname which derived from the word 'meger' and described a tall, thin, person, or possibly given the robust humour of the 14th century, the complete reverse.
Early records
The surname Mauger is one of the oldest in the Channel Islands. It is believed to have originated from Archbishop Mauger de Rouen, the uncle of William the Conqueror. The name appears in Jersey in the Short Inquisition of 1274.
Payne's Armorial of Jersey
Malger, Mager, or Mauger, is a name that occurs very early in the histories of both Jersey and Guernsey. Tradition, handed down for several centuries, states that the family owed its origin to Malgerius, Malger, or Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen and son of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, who, for his evil life was refused the pallium by the Pope, and for revolt against his nephew, William the Conqueror, was by him degraded and exiled, and retired in 1055 to Guernsey, where he became enamoured of a damsel named Gisella or Guille. From this amour, adds the same tradition, spring the two local families of Mauger and Guille.
In 1331 Richard Mauger was a landholder in the parish of Grouville, Jersey.
In the reign of Henry V, Jacques Mauger, said to have been a Guernseyman, had conferred on him the Seigneurie of Bosques, in Normandy, with the arms thereto belonging, for successfully storming tlie Castle of Moutmartin, on the night of 25 June 1419, with his men from the island.
The family of Mauger of Jobourg, in Normandy, derives its source from Jersey.
There are several families in England of similar name, and bearing the same arms. One of these, represented by the late John-Pemberthy Magor, of Eedruth, was settled in very early times in North Wales, where it was sufficiently wealthy and important to give its name to the town of Magor. Thence its members migrated, some to Ireland and others to Cornwall, in which latter county the family possesses the important manor bearing its own name.
A younger branch of the house of Major, of Hursley, near Winchester, descended from that of Mauger of Handois, in Jersey, is represented by the Rev Seymour Edward Major.
Branches of the insular family are represented by George Mauger, of St Lawrence, and by James Marcus Mauger, of St Helier.
Pronunciation
This is one of those Jersey surnames of French origin which has lost its original pronunciation in favour of an anglicised version.
What should properly be sounded 'maw-jair' is now pronounced as major, but as noted below, the family whose name is spelt Major, and for which records are included on this page, is a distinct one.
Variants
- Mauger, 1309
- Maugier, 1299
- Mager 1528
- Maugère, found in France
- Malger
- Maior
- Major - not strictly a variant but records included on this page for convenience
Family records
Family trees
- Daniel Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Edouard Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- George Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Helier Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Jean Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Jean Mauger 2: 17th-20th centuries
- Jean Mauger 3: 17th-20th centuries
- Jean Mauger 4: 17th-20th centuries
- Nicolas Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Noel Mauger: 16th-17th centuries
- Philippe Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Pierre Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Richard Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Thomas Mauger: 17th-20th centuries
- Charles Mauger: 18th-20th centuries Added 2026
Church records
Major
- Major baptisms in Jersey
- Major marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Major marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Major burials in Jersey
Mauger
- Mauger baptisms in Jersey
- Mauger marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Mauger marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Mauger burials in Jersey
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How two references to members of the Mauger family set in train investigations into how one member became a successful, if not 'squeaky clean' businessman in Canada and then a Member of Parliament, and how another, married to a famous figure in English history, was probably descended from the Jersey family. |
Biographies
- Joshua Mauger, businessman and Member of Parliament
- Samuel Mauger - Australian social reformer, son of Guernsey immigrants
- Was Richard Cromwell married to the grand-daughter of a Jerseyman?
- Mauger family members mentioned in a major history of privateering
Société Jersiaise Library records
- Bertram records in La Société Jersiaise Library, including references to members of the Mauger family Added 2018
Great War service
- Mauger family members who served in World War 1
- Elise Mauger: A volunteer nurse who served in a makeshift military hospital in France
Family wills
Burial records
Family homes
- La Chaumiere, St Lawrence
- Le Manoir de Malorey, St Lawrence
- Le Ronvillais, St Mary
- Ville au Bas Cottage, St Lawrence
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In the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1787, George Mauger, guardian of the child of the late Henri Brunet, announced the sale of the contents of the family home -
In 1824 Philippe Mauger announced in Chronique de Jersey the sale of his house at Charing Cross. He was also selling a house near Sept Maisons in upper St Helier, next to J Beaugie's property. We have not been able to identify the area known as Sept Maisons -
In 1824 Jean Mauger advertised his Mont au Pretre farm for sale in Chronique de Jersey -
Building plots at Gorey which had been owned by the late Jacques Mauger were offered for sale by Jean de La Garde in Chronique de Jersey in 1824
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Avril Alice Labey, Mary Jane Mauger and Florence Marie Vibert -
Edmund Philippe Le Clercq and Emilienne, nee Mauger
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Rosina Mauger, nee Lovelace (1885-1959) who married John Mauger (1876-1933) in 1928 -
Judith Mauger (1803-1881) with her daughter Elizabeth Tardiff (1830-1911) -
Verdun Albert Mauger with his brother Charles William and Hilda Maud Baptiste -
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Emilienne Simone Louise Mauger (1920-2016) at La Rocque -
Emilienne Simone Louise Mauger's 1931 French discount card -
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The name written on the back of this faded print is believed to be Lily Mauger, but we have not been able to identify her -
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Ann Susan Mauger, born in St Brelade in 1870, married Philip Samuel Renouf (1861-1935). They had seven children. The middle one, Alfred John, born in 1894, lost his life in the Great War, killed in action in the Somme in 1918
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Family businesses
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In the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1787, Mrs Mauger announced the sale of Suchong and Congo tea, porcelain and wine ... -
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... by 1793 her stocks had grown and included various wines and spirits -
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In Chronique de Jersey in 1850 P Mauger advertised the sale of Newcastle coal at Gorey -
Dairy farmer George Mauger, of Maison du Nord, St John, advertised the services of his bull in 1874 -
Mauger and Nicolle advertised in 1825 that they were moving their business to the road past the new market (Halkett Place) -
Draper J Mauger’s remaining stock was auctioned at 38 Halkett Place on his retirement in 1829
Family gravestones
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Great War casualty Machine Gun Corps Private Philip Edward Mauger's grave in St Ouen churchyard
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Notes and references
- ↑ Mullins was the most prolific of early Jersey portrait photographers. He was in business in the Royal Square from 1848 to 1873. His images now form part of the Société Jersiaise photographic archive. There are over 9,000 catalogued and digitised images in the collection, the vast majority very small thumbnails on contact sheets containing up to 12 portraits. Mullins was the photographer of choice for leading members of Jersey society and successful local and immigrant families. Many of his subjects were officers of the garrison regiments
