Vardon
Elsie Vardon 1877-1959
Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Vardon family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Vardon, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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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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Origins of surname
This is a name which is well established in Britain but its ultimate origins are French, and although some Vardons are said to come from the city of Verdun in eastern France, it is more likely that those in Jersey originated in a small town of the same name in the Manche department of Normandy.
Early records
Local baptism records start in St Martin in the 1770s with the children of Louis Vardon and Elizabeth Renouf. It is probable that Louis was a religious refugee from France, although he and his wife are both described as 'from St Martin' in the 1772 marriage record.
Four years later Nicolas Vardon, who was born in France, married Francoise Laffolley of St Lawrence in St Mary. They also settled and raised a family in St Martin. It is possible that Nicolas was a brother, or close relative, of Louis.
Harry Vardon, Britain's greatest golfer of all time, was born into a Grouville family and although they are likely to have descended from the early St Martin family, we have been unable to establish a definite link. Harry Vardon's father's ancestry is shrouded in mystery. He was Philippe George Vardon, the son of George Vardon, but his mother was not recorded at his baptism in 1829 and cannot, as is shown in many online trees, have been either of the two wives of the George Vardon, the son of Jean and Jeanne Sohier, baptised in Grouville in 1802.
Variants
- Vardon
Family records
Family trees
With 365 Vardon baptism and birth records in our database, these two trees cover only a small proportion of the Jersey families and we would welcome the submission of any trees providing further coverage
Church records
- Vardon baptisms in Jersey
- Vardon marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Vardon marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Vardon burials in Jersey
Family histories
- Harry Vardon, Britain's greatest golfer
Great War service
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Vardon 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
- Helen Vardon of St Helier - 20 April 1896, D/Y/A/55
- Jeanne Vardon of St Helier, desires to be buried in St Helier's Cemetery, bequeaths to the poor of St Helier, 5s 2 May 1849 - D/Y/A/27
- Philippe Vardon, 15 Le Geyt Street, St Helier - 20 February 1895, D/Y/A/54
- Lizzie Vardon, St Helier - 29 September 1937, D/Y/A/101
- John Vardon, St Martin - 5 December 1917, D/Y/A/77
- Philip Vardon, Uxbridge House, 34 Green Street, St Helier, bequeaths to Annie Jane Vardon Uxbridge House - 15 October 1943, D/Y/A/111
Burial records
Family businesses
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S J Vardon was proprietor of Apple Cottage in 1948 -
Philippe Vardon, of St Martin, advertised his retirement and the continuing sale of his equipment in Chronique de Jersey in 1850 -
Coffin maker Thomas Vardon joined the growing number of undertakers in 1860 when he took over Charles Amy's business
Family album
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Alfred Vardon (1880-1947), brother of Harry -
Charles Renouf Vardon -
Mabel Vardon -
Thomas Alfred Vardon (1872-1938), brother of Harry -
Henry William Vardon
Rogues' gallery
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Edward John Vardon (1869- ), back row left, was found guilty with Henry Charles Isherwood (1868- ), James Albert Charles Mathew (1887- ), Louis Ferchal (1888- ), Henry Charles Falle (1873- ), Alfdred Charles Ricou (1884- ), Frederick William Brown (1877- ) and Harold George Gosselin (1888- ) of robbery and sentenced by the Royal Court in 1918 to 12 three months in prison with hard labour
Family gravestones
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Surville 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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