Robert

Robert family page

Jeanne Robert (1811-1894) born St Lawrence,
married Joshua Messervy and emigrated to Idaho

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Robert family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Robert, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

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

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origin of surname

The surname Robert is derived from the baptismal name.

The name is very common in Normandy and is said to derive from the Germanic 'Hrodberht', a combination of hrod- meaning 'glory' and -berht, meaning 'brilliant'.

It is believed that the name may have been adopted by the Norsemen as they spread south and established themselves in many parts of Europe, including Normandy, and that it spread from France to England after the Norman Conquest and from France to Jersey at about the same time.

Early records

The name features in island records as early as 1528, but there is a 1340 record for the variant 'Rober'.

The first recorded baptism in Jersey was in St Ouen in 1654, and the family remained largely in the western parishes of St Ouen and St Mary throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.

Variations

• Robert, 1528
• Rober, 1340
• Roberts
• Robertson

Family records

Family trees

• Denis Robert: 15th-19th centuries
• Pierre Robert: 17th-19th centuries
• Pierre Robert 2: 17th-18th centuries
• Thomas Robert: 17th-18th centuries
• Thomas Robert 2: 17th-20th centuries

Church records

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

Newspaper records

• Charles Roberts appointed St Helier Roads Inspector in 1848

Great War service

• Robert family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

• Robert etc family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Robert burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• Belle Vue, St Mary

Family album

A letter sent to Gilbert Roberts, of Millbrook, in 1884

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  Mary Ann Robert (1850-1929). Born in Jersey, the daughter of Pierre Aime Robert (1816-1895) and Nancy, nee Dolbel (1823-1900), she married John Bennett Hollis (1850-1929) at the Dolbel Household, Taradale, Hawkes Bay,NZ in 1878 where they had 11 children. Mary Ann and her sisters emigrated to NZ in the early 1870s.
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  Mary Ann Robert
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  Ann Robert and Samuel Parsons in New Zealand in 1860
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  Mary Ann Robert and her husband John Bennett Hollis
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  Mr Roberts and his family photographed in the mid-19th century by Henry Mullins
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  Annie Rachel Robert (1880-)
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  Agnes Ann Robert (1891-)

Family businesses

• P R J Roberts were in business at 41 King Street in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, but we are uncertain what the business was

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  1858
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  1900

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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  Les Quennevais cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church cemetery
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  St Mary’s Church 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 Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Philadelphie cemetery
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  Philadelphie cemetery
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  St Peter parish cemetery
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  Robertson - St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Robertson - St John’s Church cemetery
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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
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  St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
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  The grave of Great War casualty Charles Thomas Robert at Aire Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais
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  The grave of Great War casualty Francis Philip Robert at Fort Pitt Military Cemetery, Kent
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  The grave of Great War casualty John William Robert at H A C Cemetery, Ecoust St Mein
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  Almorah cemetery

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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