Picot

Picot family page

This is one of Jersey's longest-established families,
with records dating back at least to 1309

A Mrs Picot photographed by Billinghurst and Smith

Record Search

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Mourant and Picot families

Origin of Surname

Picot is the Normandy word for a turkey, which suggested to the Rev George Balleine that the original holder of the name strutted as he walked. This is the derivation favoured in Normandy, where the family has been most numerous in France.

However, other sources suggest that it was first introduced to England after the Norman Conquest in the form of a personal name "Pic", and later with the added diminutive suffixes of "et" or "ot", it became initially Picot, Pigot and Piket. The original derivation is from the word "pic", meaning sharp or pointed, and it was a common element in words and names, being used for a steep hill, or the use or manufacture of sharp or pointed implements or weapons, or even as a nickname for a tall, thin person.

Early records

The name is found in the Assize Roll of 1309.

Strangely, despite the family having been present in Jersey for some 700 years, it merits only three mentions, as spouses in the family trees of others, in Payne's Armorial of Jersey. The families present in the late 19th century were clearly not sufficiently affluent to pay for inclusion in the publication.

Variants

• Picot 1299
• Picott 1607
• Le Picot 1381
• Le Pikert c1340
• Piquot 1331
• Piket
• Le Pikot 1309
• Le Piket 1299
• Piquet/Picquet - found in family groups with both spellings
• Picquot - only three church records with this spelling
• Pickett - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
• Pikett - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
• Pigott - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
• Piggot - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
• Picott - more likely a spelling error than a variant
• Pykett - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
• Pygot - not recognised as a variant in Jersey

Family trees

Family trees

• Abraham Picot: 17th-20th centuries
• Clement Picquet: 17th-18th centuries
• Hugh Picot: 17th-19th centuries
• Jean Picot: 17th-18th centuries
• Jean Picot 2: 18th-20th centuries
• Jean Picot 3: 17th-20th centuries
• John Picot: 18th-20th centuries
• Josue Picot: 17th-20th centuries
• Josue Picot 2: 17th-20th centuries
• Moyse Picot: 18th-19th centuries
• Nicoll Picot: 18th-20th centuries
• Philippe Picot: 18th-20th centuries
• Thomas Picot: 18th-20th centuries

Church records

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Picot

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

Piquet

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

Family histories

• John Piquet, botanist
• John and Jeanne Picot, emigrants to the USA Added 2018
• Archibald Picot imprisoned for motoring offences

Hospital administrators

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  George Picot and his wife Judith, nee Aubin, left their positions as administrators of the General Hospital in 1798 ...
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  ... but George Picot was still (or again) administrator of the General Hospital in 1803

Great War service

• Picot and Piquet family members who served in World War 1
• Presentation to Company Sergeant Major George Piquet at Town Hall

Family wills

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

Burial records

• Picot/Piquet burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• La Francheville, Grouville
• Rock Vale, Trinity
• Mayfield, Trinity
• Balmoral Terrace, St Helier
• Zelzah House
• Bagot Manor Farm
• No 4 Beresford Street, the Picots had businesses here in the 19th and early 20th century and members of the family lived above the shop

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  George Picot advertised his wife Jeanne, nee Biguerel’s house in Rue de Derriere opposite the Methodist Chapel for sale in 1805
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  In 1796 Moyse Picot advertised the sale of his house at Augres, Trinity, with 19 vergees of land, partly planted with an apple orchard, in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey. He inherited the house from his father, also Moyse

Occupation curfew cards

Curfew passes issued to Charles and John Picot during the Occupation as members of the Trinity Honorary Police

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  Charles Picot
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  John Picot

Family businesses

• Joshua Picot ran a school at 26 Queen Street in the 1830s
• Tailor Daniel Picot was at 7 Broad Street in the 1860s

Herbert Nicholson Picot's grocery shop at 13 Cheapside in about 1910

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  1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
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  Picot boots and shoes
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  James Picot, charcoal merchant of Don Road
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  James Picot
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  George Picot, merchant and iron monger of 4 Beresford Street
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  1857
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  1857
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  1862
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  1874, James Picot coal merchant in Don Road
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  Piquet's ginger wine essence was sold at 11 Halkett Place ...
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  ... as was this tonic
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  1890
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  1886
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  1861
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  1860
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  Piquet's, Queen Street, 1946
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  The back of a photograph taken by Joshua Picot, who traded at 11 and 13 Beresford Street in the 1860s.
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  Parr's Bank, which acquired the business of Robin Brothers, was managed in Jersey by F L Picot in 1915
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  1925
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  1887 advert
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  A very unusual advert in 1881 for a Gorey shipbuilder
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  P Picot was proprietor of the Britannia Inn in St John in 1881. This was 40-year-old Philip. who lived at the Britannia Inn, Mont Mado, with his wife Lydia, nee de Gruchy, and sons Elisha (2) and Alfred (1) at the time of that year's census. The couple had married in 1869
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  1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
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  1889 Nouvelle Chronique advert
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  1906
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  1857
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  1887 advert for Matthew Picot's Queen Street business
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  1859
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  1859
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  In the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1787 George Picot announced the arrival of best quality leather
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  1850 advert in the Chronique de Jersey. It is possible that the address is a misprint because all other references to George Picot's hardware business are at No 4
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  Philippe Picot, of 14 Old Street, was established as an undertaker and coffin maker in 1840 ...
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  ... he was still in business when he advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1850
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  Miss E E Picot opened a school at 40 Colomberie on 30 March 1840, teaching French, English, History, Geography, writing, arithmetic, translation, composition and design
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  James Picot was one of a number of coal dealers operating in the mid-19th century. This 1860 advert in Chronique de Jersey indicates that his yard was in Don Road
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  Joshua Picot was in business as a photographic portraitist from 1858 to 1870
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  1930 advert in Chronique de Jersey
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  1930 advert in Chronique de Jersey
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  Josue Picot's evening classes were held at Mrs Esther Le Quesne's house in Rue de Derriere in 1825 ...
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  ... his academy was at 26 Queen Street in 1830
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  Josue Picot advertised his school in his father’s house at Colomberie in Chronique de Jersey in 1818
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  Esther Picot, nee de Gruchy, advertised her school in Colomberie in Chronique de Jersey in 1817
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  Mrs Picot advertised in 1818 that her Colomberie school opposite the house of Mathieu Le Geyt, continued to operate
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  George Picot advertised port wine for sale in ‘’Gazette de l’Ile de Jersey’’ in 1803

A Piquet pharmacy bottle is among this collection

Family album

A postcard sent by Lucille Picot in 1906

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  A family picnic for Le Sueurs and Picots
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  Members of the Le Sueur and Picot families on an outing
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  A Picot baby photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Picot - by Baudoux
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  Alfred Picot and family
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  Alfred George Picot (1864-1916) (St S to Utah) son of John and Jane Bertram Picot
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  John and Isabella Picot, Francis Raymond, Ernest, Christina and John Lionel
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  John Picot (1860-1925) (to NZ), s of John Francis and Emilia Le Huquet; m Isabella Simpson
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  John Lionel Picot (1887-1960) son of John
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  Philippe Picot
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  Mrs Anne Picot
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  William Picot was born in Grouville in 1857 and emigrated to Australia at the age of 19. He was the son of John and Elizabeth, nee Bertram. There are records showing him as William Arthur Wallace Picot, born in Cornwall, which appear to be a complete invention. A descendant's research has so far been unable to substantiate the family legend that he was a member of a ship's crew and jumped ship in Adelaide, before making his way to Melbourne
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  William Picot with his wife Emely Mary Ann, nee Cutler, and their children
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  Christina Picot, daughter of John, born in Jersey in 1860, and Isabella, nee Simpson (1857-1931) in front of the family home in New Zealand
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  Isabella Simpson (1857-1931) wife of John Picot, born in Jersey in 1860
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  The first Picot family home in Wellington NZ. John Lionel Picot is standing in front with his mother Isabella
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  The Picot family business in Wellington. John Lionel Picot is standing in the doorway in shirt sleeves
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  Report of the drowning of John Picot (1825-1907) at the age of 82
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  The 1933 marriage of Roland Frederick Picot (1910- ) born in St Helier, the son of Daniel John Charles (1881- ) and Ellen Louisa, nee Titcombe (1887-1952) and Georgette Christine Laffoley (1910-1975) daughter of George Philip (1873-1956) and Celestine Catherine, nee Dutertre (1871-1933)
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  Frederick Lewis Picot
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  An unidentified Mr Picot, photographed by Henry Mullins in the mid-19th century
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  Jean Piquet
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  The Rev Charles Picot, born in 1840, wrote racy stories and tales of ghosts and witchcraft in the early 20th century under the pseudonym C du Mont. He wrote in the eastern Faldouet dialect of Jèrriais . This dialect, which probably died out in the mid-20th century, is notable for the 'z' sound which replaces the 'th' or 'r' found in the centre and west of the island.
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  Ruby Picot (1912-1999)
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  Christine Emilia Picot (1884-1966)
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  Edmund Gallichan and Lucy Elsie, nee Picot
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  Herbert Nicholson Picot (1884-1957)
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  Herbert Nicholson Picot
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  John David, Audrey Erith and Eric Wilfrid Picot
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  John Picot (1816-1898) and Jeanne, nee Filleul
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  Jersey emigrant John Picot's family home at Dingmans Ferry, Delaware

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  This 1840 letter, apparently to a Mr P Picot, predated the 'Penny Post' postage stamp era by a few weeks, but cost the same ...
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  ... exactly 100 years later, a last chance to write to a Jerseyman serving in the Royal Navy in World War 2. A week after this letter was sent the Germans invaded and the island was sealed off from the outside world

The 1948 wedding of Michael and Elizabeth Picot, nee Pasturel

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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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  Trinity Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church 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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  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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  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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  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 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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  Sion cemetery
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  Sion cemetery
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  St Peter parish cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  Submitted by a user, cemetery unknown
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  Cemetery unknown
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  The grave of Great War casualty Charles Edward Picot at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium
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  The grave of Great War casualty George Charles Picot at Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium

Tips

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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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