Rose burial records 1820-1978

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Rose 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
3683 Ann Rose Waters 1853 Picot
11257 Ann Rose 1918 Croad
707 Charles Rose 1882 Croad
79 Charles Twite Rose 1974 Pitcher and Le Quesne
10121 Elizabeth Rose Cabot 1915 Croad
17944 Elizabeth Mary Rose 1941 Croad
199a Elizabeth Mary Rose Le Masurier 1961 Le Quesne
104 Ernest Cecil Charles Rose 1939 Sinatt
48 Frederick Ernest Rose 23/2/1855 Sinatt
9169 George Charles Rose 1911 Croad
11707 Harry Rose 1919 Croad
4668 Henry Rose 1896 Croad
15562 Henry Philip Rose 1933 Croad
7044 Herbert Cecil Rose 1904 Croad
118 Horace Arthur Rose Sent to Guernsey 1933 Sinatt
301 Hugh Rose 1975 Pitcher and Le Quesne
424 James Herbert Rose 06/11/1852 Sinatt
472 John W Rose Died in England 12/07/1853 Sinatt
21795 Lydia Hannah Rose Journeaux 1957 Croad
8972 Mary Eliza Rose 1911 Croad
3444 Miriam Rose Pembroke 1892 Croad
5 Philip William Rose 1933 Sinatt
9571 Priscilla Susanna Rose 1865 Picot
886 Rebecca Rose Druce 1883 Croad
37A Rose Rose Barnett 1976 Pitcher and Le Quesne
84A Ruby Beatrice Rose Nichols 1976 Pitcher and Le Quesne
149,150 83 Sarah Rose 1894 Sinatt
2259 Sarah Rose Thomasine Pooley 1888 Croad
396 16690 Sarah Elizabeth Rose 1937 Croad
503 23 Susannah Rose Downer 1875 Croad
2752 Susannah Rose 1890 Croad
156 Theodore Adolphus Rose 1879 Croad
84a,84b 159 Thomas Rose 1880 Sinatt
3289 Thomas Rose 1892 Croad
10149 William Rose 1866 Picot