Tostevin

Tostevin family page

All Tostevins in Jersey appear to be descended from Guernsey families, which are much more numerous and older

Alfred Le Cornu (1879-1922), Mary Grose "Polly", nee Tostevin, Doris Tostevin Le Cornu (1905-1992) and Ruby Charlotte Le Cornu (1908-1988) photographed in 1911. Mary was the daughter of George Samuel Tostevin

Record Search

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Origin of Surname

There are two theories of the origin of the surname Tostevin:

• From old French toster du vin meaning broiled in wine (Larousse dictionary of French surnames).
• An inhabitant of the town of Tostes in Normandy (in the same way that Poitevin is used to refer to someone from the French region of Poitou).

Early records

This is essentially a Guernsey family, but descendants moved to and settled in Jersey in the early 19th century (see tree below), creating a branch which eventually produced emigrants to Adelaide, Australia, and Minnesota, USA.

The earliest reference to the surname Tostevin in Guernsey was a Nicolas Tostevin who emigrated from Brittany in around 1514.

From information in a booklet found in the St Pierre du Bois church two stone masons called Tostevin came from Brittany to help build the church and stayed in St Pierre du Bois. One of those men was Nicolas Tostevin. The family had a long connection with the church in helping maintain it.

Variants

• Tostevin
• Toadvine

Family Records

Family trees

• Pierre Tostevin: 16th-20th centuries, a Guernsey family which moved to Jersey and has branches in Australia and the USA

Church records

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

Family histories

• A Tostevin from Jersey who watched the first flight in Perth, Western Australia

Great War service

• Tostevin family members who served in World War 1

Family wills

These wills created by members of the Tostevin family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

• Rebecca Tostevin, 20 Colomberie, St Helier - 31 December 1948, D/Y/A/120
• William Tostevin, 42 Aquila Road, St Helier - 15 May 1937, D/Y/A/100
• Charlotte Tostevin, Allegro House, Millbrook, widow - 17 June 1925, D/Y/A/85
• Peter Tostevin, Alton Lodge, Val Plaisant, St Helier - 19 April 1922, D/Y/A/82
• Nicholas Tostevin, Avenue House, Parade Road, St Helier, desires to be buried in Almorah Cemetery - 24 January 1931, D/Y/A/91
• George Tostevin, Millbrook St Helier, bequeaths to Charlotte Vallance Gale for life the property Allegro House, St Aubins Road, reversion to Mary Grose Tostevin - 1 December 1922, D/Y/A/82

Burial records

• Tostevin burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• Boulevard Avenue

Family album

A badly damaged photograph, digitally restored, of George Samuel Tostevin, born in Jersey in 1842, taking his wife Charlotte, nee Gale, for a drive

Click on any image to see a full-size version

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  Le Cornu-Tostevin family at Boulevard Avenue
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  Le Cornu-Tostevin family
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  Wedding of Charlotte Tostevin and Winter Gallie, 9 October 1900, Primitive Methodist Church, St Helier. (Charlotte Tostevin, daughter of George Samuel Tostevin)
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  The wedding guests identified
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  George Samuel Tostevin (1842-1922), son of Pierre, and Charlotte Valance, nee Gale (1842-1925)
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  William Robert Tostevin 1829
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  Fred Percy Tostevin, awarded the OBE in 1935 for services to education in India. An Old Victorian, he was Principal of King Edward College, Amraoti
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  Henry Tostevin at 95
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  Herbert Charles Tostevin
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  James Francis Tostevin
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  James Francis Tostevin and family
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  John Lamswood Tostevin
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  Pierre Tostevin
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  Ken Tostevin; cousin Victoria Oliver; Mabel Tostevin; Emma, nee Dodd; and John Lamswood Tostevin
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  Tostevin sisters
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  George Samuel Tostevin (1842-1922) son of Peter and Mary Lamswood
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  Henry Tostevin (1839-1933) son of Peter and Mary Lamswood
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  Henry Tostevin
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  Henry Tostevin and Margaretta Taylor
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  Henry Tostevin
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  James Francis Tostevin (1823-1913) son of Pierre and Elizabeth Allen
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  James Francis Tostevin
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  James Francis Tostevin
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  Mary Grose Tostevin (1873-1948) daughter of George Samuel and Charlotte Gale, married Alfred Le Cornu
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  Mary Grose Tostevin
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  Mary Grose Tostevin in front seat next to Doris Le Cornu
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  Peter Tostivin (1807- )
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  Ken Tostevin
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  Mabel, Emma, John and KenTostevin
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  Emma Tostevin and Leon
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  Ken and Evelyn Tostevin in 1929
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  John Lamswood Tostevin and Emma Frances, nee Dodd, in Adelaide
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  Ken and Mabel Tostevin
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  Emma Frances Dodd Hughina Miller, Tostevin sisters-in-law
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  Ken Tostevin
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  Bob and Edna Johnson, nee Tostevin
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  Mabel and Ken Tostevin
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  William John Daniell and Edith, nee Tostevin
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  Keith, Gwendoline and Ivan Tostevin in 1913
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  Adolphus Theodore Tostevin
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  Louisa Tostevin, nee Shields)
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  Henry Tostevin
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  Emma, Evelyn and Mac Tostevin
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  Hughina and Emma Tostevin
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  Walter and Mabel McGarry, nee Tostevin
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  Ken Tost and &EdnaTostevin
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  Henry Tostevin (1839- )
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  Tostevin anniversary makes the news in 1913
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  John and Mary Jane Grose, nee Tostevin
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  Mary Grose LeCornu, nee Tostevin
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  Evelyn and Emma Tostevin
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  Walter and Mabel McGarry, nee Tostevin
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  Walter and Mabel McGarry, nee Tostevin
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  Edna, Judith and Evelyn Tostevin
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  Emma and Mabel Tostevin
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  Mabel Tostevin in 1926
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  Ken Tostevin
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  Emma and John Lamswood Tostevin
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  Hughina Tostevin
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  Ken and Mabel Tostevin
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  Kenneth, Emma and Mabel Tostevin
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  Mabel McGarry, nee Tostevin
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  Emma Tostevin
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  Judith, Ken, John, Evelyn and EdnaTostevin

Herbert Tostevin obituary - Click for full size

Rogues gallery

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  John Peter Tostevin, born in St Helier in 1871, was sent to prison for six months by the Royal Court at the 1919 May Assizes for illegal possession of furniture. The year after, on 20 August, he was back in court for fraudulently altering official weighbridge tickets and imprisoned for 12 months, with hard labour

Family businesses

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  Advert in St Paul Globe, Minnesota, for Tostevin business
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  1887 advert for William Tostevin's building and plastering business
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  And an advert from the same year's L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
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  In 1880 G Tostevin moved his business to more spacious premises in Aquila Road
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  Mrs G Tostevin ran seaside apartments at Millbrook in 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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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah 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 Peter parish cemetery
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  Surville Cemetery
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  St Brelade Church cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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  Almorah cemetery
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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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