Guenier

Guenier family page

Desire Aimable Guernier

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Origins of surname

This surname, and the variant Guernier, has its origins in a personal name, Wanhari, from Germanic roots. Wan = 'hope', hari = 'army'. It is a name mainly from the west of France.

Early records

The early Jersey families came from France and were established by the 1820s. More than one unrelated family is believed to have settled in the island. Although the spellings Guernier and Guenier are found together in some family records, the two families seem to have been quite distinct in Jersey.

Variants

• Guenier
• Guesnier
• Guernier

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of August Leonard Guernier
• Descendants of Jean Guenier
• Descendants of Francois Guenier

Church records

Tips for using these links

Guenier

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

Guernier

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

Notable family members

• Frank Guenier, a Jerseyman who had left to work for the Post Office in England, returned in 1969 to be the first director of the Jersey Post Office which had been taken over by the States from Royal Mail.

Great War service

• William Wyatt Guenier (1888- ) (Gr) son of Francois and Mary Ann Wyatt, Chief Stoker RN, HMS Superb
• Emile Maurice Guernier (1896- ) (St S) son of Desire Aimable and Louise Bion, Trooper, NZ Auckland Mounted Rifles
• Felix Carl Guernier (1890-1944) (St P) Able Seaman RN, HMS Benbow

• Guenier burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

Another photograph of Auguste Guernier outside the shop with his daughter

The Guernier family pictured outside their home, Le Vieux Magasin next to their shop opposite Grouville Church. They were Frenchman Auguste Aimable Guernier (1878-1972) and his wife Eugenie Francoise, nee Boulaire. They owned the shop, which became Grouville Post Office, from the late 1920s until at least 1941. We have been unable to identify which of their daughters appears in the photograph with them

Family album

This picture taken in Jersey in 1904 shows Louise Guernier, nee Crespin, with her children Louise, Angele, Auguste, Blanche, Emile and Aline. Louise was only 17 when she married Desire, ten years her senior. She was a healthy woman physically, but the shock of losing her husband at the relatively young age of 52 took its toll. On the morning of his death she got up and opened the curtains. Desire asked what kind of a day it was and on being told it looked to be a fine one, he commented that he better get up straight away as he had carrots to pick. He jumped out of bed and dropped dead at his wife's feet. The shock to Louise was such that she promptly retired from life and spent most of her days sitting in her chair and allowing the world to pass her by. Her elder son Auguste, then 21, took over the task of caring for his siblings, with the help of his second sister Angele. At the time the youngest, Aline, was only 2 years old. Before the children left for school, they would make their mother breakfast and put it on the table next to her chair. Frequently when they returned, she would still be sitting in the same place, with the meal untouched. On one occasion, Auguste returned home to find his mother had been out into the vegetable garden and picked every single carrot in the plot. Despite her fragile mental condition, Louise lived to the ripe old age of 97, and on being shown a photo taken when she was in her early 90s, her only comment was 'to think that someone who has been so pretty can become so ugly!'

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