Origin of Surname
George Balleine gives the origin as the early French for white foot but says:
Blampied, white-foot, is a puzzle. One wonders how the whiteness of a man's feet attracted the attention of his neighbours. Yet it is not the corruption of some other word, for we get the name Whitefoot in England. Perhaps it was given in scorn to a man too dainty to get his feet dirty.
Early records
We previously showed here that although a common Jersey name from the 16th Century to the present, Blampied did not appear to have any older roots in the island. The name is found in the Extente of 1528 and the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550 contains four Blampieds.
However, we had somehow overlooked the spelling variations listed in our Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames and now shown below. We are indebted to a Blampied descendant for pointing out that Jersey Archive contains a contract dated 1402 between Guille de St Martin Seigneur of the Fief de la Trinity and several tenants, including John Blancpie dit Petit, John Blancpie the elder, and John Blancpie the younger. This suggests that the Blampied name was found in Trinity from the 14th century, there being three adult males by 1402.
Variants
- Blampied 1607
- Blampy 1528
- Blancpy 1484
- Blancpie 1402
- Blancpuy 1381
Distribution
This is very much a Trinity family. Of the 1386 Blampied births and baptisms in our database, 514 were recorded in Trinity. The other northern and central parishes - St John (191), St Mary (60), St Martin (108), St Peter (164) provide another 523. The family hardly ventured into the south east of the island, with a total of only 61 registrations in St Saviour, St Clement and Grouville.
There is also a Blanpied family in the United States, descended from Guernsey-born Elisha Blampied. who emigrated to Ohio sometime before 1820. At some point this family adopted the French spelling.
Family records
Family trees
These Blampied family trees are currently subject to a detailed review. Details were added and corrections made during 2020 and the process is ongoing. Researchers are advised to check different trees because there are still unresolved differences. The problem is particularly apparent in the Trinity descendancies, researching which is not helped because so many Blampied men married Blampied cousins, many of them with the given name Rachel
- Descendants of Gilles Blampied (1565)
- Descendants of Jean Blampied (1580)
- Blampieds of Blampied Farm St Lawrence (c1550)
- Descendants of Josue Blampied
- Descendants of Josue Blampied - 2, a different Josue Added 2021
- Descendants of Jean Blampied
- Descendants of Jean Blampied - 2, a new descendant branch of the above tree, starting with a different Jean Added 2019
- Descendants of Nicollas Blampied Added 2018
- Descendants of Charles Blampied and Marie Picot: A new tree claiming a different descent from Descendants of Jean Blampied - 2
- Descendants of Thomas Blampied Added 2022
- Descendants of Philipot Blampied Added 2022
Church records
- Blampied baptisms in Jersey
- Blampied marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Blampied marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Blampied burials in Jersey
Biographies and family histories
- Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), artist and etcher
- Charles Blampied Methodist pioneer
Newspaper records
- Capt Blampied of the schooner Reaper feared lost in 1848
- Mr G V Blampied and his family's return to South Africa was reported in the Evening Post in 1920
Great War service
Occupation records
World War 2 casualties
Family wills
Burial records
Emigrant to Canada
Family properties
- Blampied Farm, St Lawrence
- Half Way Hotel, Millbrook
- Bas l'Epine, Trinity
- Baymont, St Brelade
Family businesses
- Philip Blampied was a carpenter living at 58 King Street in 1841
- C P Blampied was at 23 Queen Street in the 1910s and '20s
- W J Blampied was a printer at 13 Broad Street from the 1880s
An unusual mixture of businesses for this Blampied family: Coal merchants with an Esplanade depot, and tailors in partnership with Lafolley, in Broad Street. And further adverts indicate that they were also involved with two insurance companies
Coal merchants
1873
John Blampied was agent for Manchester Fire Assurance
John Blampied was agent for Star Life Insurance Company at 16 Esplanade in the 19th century
Labey and Blampied, printers
1890
1886
Blampied Brothers, charcoal merchants in 1875
1875
H H Blampied, wholesale confectioners' van
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey
Family album
Fred Blampied
Lt Blampied photographed by Henry Mullins
Harold John Blampied, 1918, son of George and Annie, nee Corbin
Mary Alice Blampied and Giselle
Jane Elizabeth Blampied
George Hamon Blampied (1854-1894)
George Hamon Blampied
Elizabeth Blampied (1835-1925)
Harold Blampied, 1909
A cartoon by Blampied depicting Richard Le Vavasseur dit Blanc-de-Pied
Eliza Labey, nee Blampied
Philip Blampied (1802-1898) the last family member to own Blampied Farm
Barry Blampied at Snow Hill in the 1950s
Capt Denis Blampied ...
... and his wife Amelia, nee Hocquard
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Postcards
1901 postcard to Miss E Blampied of Les Avenues Trinity. This was Eveline Blampied, youngest child of Charles William and Sophia. Trinity-born Charles (1839- ) farmed at Les Avenues. He married Sophia Louisa Le Boutillier (1844- ) in St Brelade, her home parish, in 1867. At the time he was a carpenter, the son of sailor Richard Josue, and Susanne, nee de Gruchy. The couple were farming 23 vergees at Rue du Nord, Trinity, by 1871, but their first three children, Sophia Louisa (1868- ), Alice (1872- ) and Lilian Alice (1876- ) were baptised in St Brelade. Eveline (1881- ) and her brother John Adolphus (1877- ) were baptised in Trinity.
... Happy birthday from Agnes in 1901, it was her 20th birthday ...
... another card, a year later
A card for Miss A Blampied, at La Retraite, Trinity, in 1918. This was Aline, born in the parish in 1879, and still single and living with her mother Amelia at the time of the 1911 census
Birthday greetings to Lilian, in Trinity in 1909. She appears to have been born in St John in 1901, the daughter of farmer Charles (1860- ) and Amelia. They were living in St John in 1901, and at Les Avenues in 1911, but presumably elsewhere in Trinity in between.
A postcard sent to Dorice Blampied, who lived near the Post Office in St Mary in 1905. She was born in 1893 and lived at home with her parents William and Anna, nee Trachy, and older brother William. In 1922 she married Philip Marquand de La Haye in St Peter
A card sent from France to Laura Blampied in St Mary in 1908. This was probably the 25-year-old daughter of William and Anna
A postcard from friends on holiday in Poland, sent to J A Blampied in James Street in 1934. Somebody did not read the very clear address that carefully, because the card travelled via New Jersey
Family gravestones
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Almorah cemetery
Almorah cemetery
Almorah cemetery
Almorah cemetery
Almorah cemetery
Almorah cemetery
Almorah cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
Trinity Church cemetery
St Mary’s Church cemetery
St Peter’s Church cemetery
Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St John’s Church cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
Philadelphie cemetery
Philadelphie cemetery
Sion cemetery
St Brelade parish cemetery
St Brelade parish cemetery
St Brelade parish cemetery
Surville Cemetery
Surville Cemetery
Surville Cemetery
Surville Cemetery
St Lawrence
St Saviour
St Saviour
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
St Lawrence
John Blampied, Bouchoir New British Cemetery
Charles William Blampied, Ballyhooly Church of Ireland
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