Pirouet
An unknown Miss Pirouet in a 19th century photograph by Henry Mullins; perhaps the same person as seen to the left, in her youth
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Origin of Surname
Recorded in several spellings this is a French medieval surname. It would seem to describe a dancer or acrobat who performed pirouettes and other complex dance movements.
It is not a common name in Normandy, although there is the village of Pirou south of Lessay in Manche and some sources suggest that the family was named after it. It is also quite possible that the original Jersey Pirouets came from Brittany.
Early records
The name appears very early in Jersey records and the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 contains Johan, Philippes and Thomas.
The family was established in Grouville when church records started and children of seven different fathers were baptised between 1588 and the endof the 16th century.
Earlier known family members include the following:
- Jacques Pirouet was born in St Helier in 1513 and married a Le Geyt
- Another Jacques Pirouet was born in St Helier in 1523
- Bernabe Pirouet was born in Grouville in about 1564 and married Anne there in 1588. They had sons Thomas born in 1589 and Jean born in 1592.
- Jacques Pirouet was born in Grouville in about 1568 and married Pacquette there in 1592.
- Jean Pirouet was born in Grouville about 1570 and married Michelle in 1590. They had sons Jean in 1594, Clement in 1595, Jacques in 1600 and another Jacques in 1604. Daughter Collette was the twin of the first Jacques.
- A second Jean Pirouet was born in Grouville about 1570 and married Guillemette in about 1597. They had sons Ganne, born in 1598, and Philippe in 1600
- A third Jean Pirouet was born in Grouville in 1570 and married Marguerite in 1594. They had a daughter Marie born in 1595.
- Pierre Pirouet was born in Grouville in 1574 and married Christine in 1599
- Drouet Pirouet was born in Grouville in 1576.
- Yet another Jean Pirouet, this time from St Clement, was born in 1585 and married Rachel rossier on 7 November 1621.
- Philippe Pirouet was born in Grouville about 1574 and married Catherine du Parcq there on 19 September 1599
- Jean Pirouet was born in Grouville about 1587 and married Marie Le Febvre there on 18 November 1612
Variants
- Pirouet, 1607
- Pirou
- Pyrou 1309
- Pyrouet
- Peroyt
- Pirot
- Pirotte
- Piriou
- Pirout
- Piroux
- Pyrouet
Coats of arms
Pre-1500 Pirouet arms researched by Julian Wilson
Family records
Family trees
- Jean Pirouet: 18th-20th centuries
- Jean Pirouet 2: 17th-20th centuries St Ouen
- Jean Pirouet 4: 16th-20th centuries
- Philippe Pirouet: 18th-21st centuries
- Thomas Pirouet: 17th-20th centuries
Church records
- Pirouet baptisms in Jersey
- Pirouet marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Pirouet marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Pirouet burials in Jersey
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Occupation curfew cards
Curfew pass issued to Clifford Pirouet during the Occupation as a member of the St Mary Honorary Police
Family properties
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Jean Pirouet, of Leoville, St Ouen, advertised six parcels of land for sale in Chronique de Jersey in 1880
Family businesses
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Potatoes for sale in 1862 -
Pirouet builders merchants, Union Street -
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1927 advert for Thomas Frank Pirouet's Union Street business -
T F Pirouet was in Beresford Street in 1912 -
Evening Post 1909 -
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1897
Family album
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John Philip Pirouet (1854-1941) son of John; married Mary Ann Spillane -
Arthur Nicolle Pirouet (1887-1940), his wife Linzee, nee Church, and their son Edouard -
Thomas Frank? Pirouet -
Thomas Frank Pirouet was a trustee of St Peul's Church in 1901 -
Arethur Nicolle Pirouet's return to Jersey after the Occupation
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Family gravestones
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Philadelphie cemetery -
The grave of Great War casualty Arthur John Francis Pirouet at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Near Albert
Tips
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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
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