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Amanda

Amanda Report 20 Oct 2010 14:50

Hello,

Is there any easy way of accessing records regarding births, marriages and deaths in Jersey? I can't seem to access anything on the usual search engines, are they literally only held at the record's offices on the respective Islands?

Thank you in advance =)
Amanda

George_of_Westbury

George_of_Westbury Report 20 Oct 2010 14:58

Have a look at this link it explains about bmds in the Channel Islands

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/channel-islands-and-man.htm

George


Edit

Here is a link to a member who does Jersey look ups


http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1120035

Researching:
My avatar is that of my Dad and shipmates, taken onboard HMS Blanche in 1938, place unknown From left to right, my Dad,Sidney Mellor and Sidney Bateman.

Potty

Potty Report 20 Oct 2010 15:07

jerseylily on these boards offers lookups for Jersey. This is the thread (copy and paste into your browser's address bar)

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1120035

Amanda

Amanda Report 20 Oct 2010 15:09

Thank you all very much for your help =)
Much appreciated!
Very best wishes,
Amanda xx

jerseylily

jerseylily Report 21 Oct 2010 10:29

Hello Amanda

What else is it that you want to know?

There is only one line, that of your Great x 4 Grandparents, that I may be able to take a little further back. All the others end in Guernsey, England or Ireland and I cannot help you with those.

Researching:
Basébé, Butcher, Johnson, Dubber (London) Milford (Devon and Cornwall) Shardlow, Hague, Holmes, Capenhurst (Derbyshire) Smith, Jennnings, Keylock, Bullock (Gloucestershire)

Gael

Gael Report 21 Oct 2010 11:17

Can access Jersey on the GR Census Records

LakesLass

LakesLass Report 21 Oct 2010 13:40

hello Amanda
My great grandmother & family were from Jersey and I found a good Jersey Archives site whcih was very helpful for me.

http://www.jerseyheritage.org/home

An interesting site, and I now have her birth cert and christening record. Expensive compared to English cert costs but I wanted it.

Amanda

Amanda Report 21 Oct 2010 16:10

Thanks again everyone =) will look at those other websites as well =)

JerseyLily, you have been so helpful to me I didn't want to trouble you again; the last thing I wanted to know was whether John Taylor died in Jersey, would have been after 1970 sometime as he did actually see me in my pram lol! Apparently he was placed in a pauper grave, but I have cousins saying he returned to Manchester and died there ..

It also appears that John's brother, Frank, was living in Jersey too, and died there two years ago!