Origin of Surname
This essentially Norman surname is said to be derived from baille + hache, referring to a man who carried a hatchet, or an axe, but it might also refer specifically to an executioner.
Early records
The name is recorded in the Extente of 1331. It was known in England as early as 1154.
Payne's Armorial of Jersey
This family is of high antiquity in Normandy, where its members were Seigneurs of Rauville, Biesville, Longueval, La Corderie, etc. The Norman stem is traced from Raoul de Baillehache, living near Caen in 1305, where the name is and has been variously spelt, Ballehache, de Bellehache, de Bailhache, de Baillhache, de Balliehache, and de Baillehache.
The Jersey family had been long settled in the parish of Saint Lawrence, where it had held offices of trust, and whence branches afterwards migrated to the parishes of St Ouen and St Helier. [1] Its members were merchants of celebrity before and during the reign of Charles I and II. Clement Bailhache, who died in 1819, was a Jurat of the Royal Court.
All the early Bailhaches, featured on trees shown on this page, lived at L`Etacq. The Descendants of Jacques Bailhache lived at "Bas de L`Etacq", being the immediate vicinity of the slipway now known as Le Port, the Descendants of Matthieu Bailhache lived about 100 yards away at La Porte, whilst the Descendants of Clement Bailhache lived at Hastingue Farm, a little to the east, on the same road. From one or other of these three stems there arose branches, whose members lived further afield, such as elsewhere in St Ouen, in St Brelade, St Mary and St Helier.
- Arms — Azure, a lion rampant, or; in chief a crescent between two mullets of the last
- Crest — A ship, ppr
- Motto — Vive memor lethi fugit horae
Variants
- Bailhache, the commonest form in Jersey
- Ballehache
- de Bellehache
- de Bailhache
- de Baillhache
- de Balliehache
- de Baillehache
- Belhaché
- Baillache
- Baillehaiche
- Bailliache
- Bellehache
- Belhache, the commonest form in France today
Family records
Family trees
- Descendants of John Bailhache
- Descendants of Jacques Bailhache
- Descendants of Clement Bailhache
- Descendants of Clement Bailhache - 2
- Descendants of Clement Bailhache - 3
- Descendants of Matthieu Bailhache
- Descendants of Jean Bailhache
Church records
- Bailhache baptisms in Jersey
- Bailhache marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Bailhache marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Bailhache burials in Jersey
Family histories and biographies
- Bailhache emigrants to Nova Scotia, Canada
- Jean Bailhache of St Ouen (1787 - 1857) - emigrated to Ohio, USA where he was a judge, newspaper proprietor and associate of Abraham Lincoln.
- Sir Philip Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey 1995-2009
- William Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey 2015-2019
Newspaper records
Occupation records
Family wills
Burial records
Emigrant to Canada
Family album
1899 Evening Post advert
The Rev Philip Bailhache (1833- )
Family businesses
1905
Bailhache and Sons of St John, builders, carpenters and painters - and burials - 1940
Philip Bailhache's merchant's business occupied a large block between the Esplanade and Seaton Place in the mid-19th century
1881 advert
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
1953
Family gravestones
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Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
St Mary’s Church cemetery
St Peter’s Church cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California
Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California
Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California
Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
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Notes and references
- ↑ This statement is misleading as the Bailhaches of St Ouen were well-established there at the start of the earliest church register (1634). It is much more likely that the now-extinct St Lawrence family, who were merchants, originated in St Ouen.
