Le Brun

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This family can be traced in Jersey official records as far back as the 14th century

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Pre-1500 arms, as researched by Julian Wilson. However, the only Jersey Le Brun family that seems to have been armigerous bore, according to G F B de Gruchy: "Azure, a lion rampant, argent, gutté, gules"

Origin of Surname

The original Le Brun would have had brown hair, although brun does have other meanings in old French and could have signified bright, sombre or unhappy.

Le Brun and Brun are very common names in Normandy and can be traced back to 1198, when a Petrus Brunnus was recorded.

In Jersey, Richard Le Brun was mentioned as living in 1331, in the Extente of that year, in St Peter, where the family has long been settled, as it has been in St Ouen.

The "berceau" or cradle of the St Peter family was in the vicinity of La Croix ès Bruns, at the top of Jubilee Hill, where the house named, in Victorian times, "Balmoral" stood, overlooking the airport, prior to demolition by German Occupying forces, during the Second World War. Other branches lived in the 16th and 17th centuries at Les Vaux, below the western approach of the present-day airport runway, and in Val de la Mare, being the low-lying valley, on a north-south axis, between the former coastal dunes and the range of hills lying to the east.

The surname was also established in the rural part, la paroisse as opposed to La Ville, of St Helier, from the late 15th century, from which it spread to adjoining parishes.

The surname could have been formed in more than one location, within the Island.

Nicolas Le Brun was Rector of his native parish, St Peter, 1541?-1559.

Early records

The name is found in the above Extente of 1331 and Maudolyn and Piers Le Brun are in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.

Catherine Le Brun (1530- ) was the daughter of Servais (1500- ) of St Helier and married Nicholas Messervy.

Variants

  • Le Brun, 1299
  • Le Brune
  • Brun
  • de Brun
  • de Broune 1309
  • Le Brunet
  • La Brunette 1461

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Ploughing on the Le Brun farm at St Lawrence in 1904


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A Le Brun family group

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Occupation curfew cards

Curfew pass issued to Alfred Le Brun during the Occupation as a member of the Trinity Honorary Police [1]


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Family gravestones

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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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Notes and references

  1. These cards are held by Jersey Archive. Visit The Archive online catalogue for more information. A subscription may be needed to view some of the site's content
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