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Re: St Helier Cemetery
« Reply #9 on: Monday 01 October 12 07:45 BST (UK) »
At the end of our visit to Jersey we went ti the Jersey Museum and quite by chance saw next door the Societie Jersiase.I had not made an  appointment but was lucky that someone was free to help.They did have burial records in books ,sometimes with inscriptions.
If you aren't in Jersey it may be worthwhile paying for them to do lookups for you.....cheaper than fare over .They charge £5 an hour for members of the Family History Society of Jersey ....double for non members.
The staff were so helpful....their records better than the Archives which ai found most disappointing.At the Archives they have a catalogue. on line which was in e process of being changed.I had used the old version at home many months ago and found that they still used this old version at the archives.i was able to find  3 wills which I wad able to view and have copies made to be sent to me at home art 50 p each.
their new catalogue which is the only one we can view at home isn't good and the willsI wanted weren't on it.
Go to the Societie Jersiaise for your research and if you visit do pre book.
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Mann Ringrose Prior( West London)Prior (Halstead Colchester and Sudbury)Ringrose (Northants) Clark(sussex  Bath)Light(Shropshire West London)Barber(Northants)Gaudern (Northants)Piper(Suffolk)Carter (Essex)Nightingale,Stiles,Dunk,Hedgecock(Kent)Mann(south Devon )Le Cronier,Le Quesne,Poingdestre,Esnouf,Le Guyt,Anley.Le Carteret(Jersey)Clark(Bath,Batcombe,and Nyland )
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Re: St Helier Cemetery
« Reply #10 on: Monday 01 October 12 08:23 BST (UK) »
On one of my many weekend visits to Jersey, I had time free on the Monday.
So I visited Societe Jersiaise - as you said very helpful!
Found my (mis-transcribed) family on the 1841 census by reading the original forms!

The Archive was closed (closed every Monday, I think?), so I never did go there. So I can't comment about them.

And I have used the Channel Islands FHS, who did some look ups for me. Very efficient, and worth every penny!
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Re: St Helier Cemetery
« Reply #11 on: Monday 01 October 12 10:41 BST (UK) »
The Jersey Archive does have several volumes of burial records, the same ones as the Soc J. There are records from all of the parish churches from the earliest records up until 1842.

There are St Helier burial records from Almorah and  Mont a l'Abbe cemeteries plus memorial inscriptions from Green Street and St Peter's cemeteries. I believe St Clement burial records are on-line.

The Archive also holds an amazingly useful collection of funeral directors records. They are a reasonably new acquisition and are in the process of being indexed although many have already been done. These hold a wealth of information including date of death, address, place of burial and in some cases family members.

The Livres de Remarques from the funeral directors will give such information as burial number, name of person buried, relatives, age, date of death, cause of death etc etc - these are also at the Archive.

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Re: St Helier Cemetery
« Reply #12 on: Monday 01 October 12 10:49 BST (UK) »
This wasn't mentioned to me at the archives but the Societie Jersiase do have the funeral directors records too.
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er(essex)Nightingale(kent Sussex)Sutton (sussex)


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Re: St Helier Cemetery
« Reply #13 on: Monday 01 October 12 11:45 BST (UK) »
Many thanks everyone for all your useful tips.

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Re: St Helier Cemetery
« Reply #14 on: Monday 15 October 12 20:07 BST (UK) »
I agree that the new Archive website is not as good as the old one. I find it a lot harder to find information.  Although you can't do any research online a Societe Jersiaise, their web site is interesting and has some lovely old photos of Jersey, so worth a look www.societe-Jersiaise.org

Good luck with research