Helleur

Helleur family page

Descendants of the Helleur family can be found in Canada and New Zealand

Hellyer family: Frederick Edward and Ellen, nee Harris, with Herbert George, Ethel, Matilda, John and Frederick Edward jnr

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Helleur family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Helleur, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records

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Origin of Surname

• This name is derived from the French heler, meaning to hail or call, and may indicate a crier or announcer.

Early records

The family arrived in Jersey in the late 17th century and may have been Huguenot refugees.

Variants

• Helleur
• Hellyer
• Hellard, possibly a distinct family

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Edouard Helleur
• Descendants of Matthieu Helleur and Susanne Alexandre ^[1]
• Descendants of Matthieu Helleur same starting point as tree above but different descendant branch
• Descendants of Matthieu Helleur - 2 again the same starting point, but an extended descendancy
• Descendants of Jean Helleur
• Descendants of Samuel Hellyer, another branch to New Zealand

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Family histories

• Frederic Helleur, emigrant to New Zealand who ended up on the wrong island
• Arthur Hellyer, a famous gardening journalist with his roots in Jersey

Great War service

• Edmund Helleur (1886- ) (St My) son of George Daniel and Ann, Private, Canadian Infantry, wounded
• Francis Philip Helleur (1890- ) (St B) son of Francis and Elizabeth, Private, Labour Corps
• George Samuel Helleur (1882- ) (St L) son of Edward George Francis and Emma Jane, Gunner, RGA
• Sidney Helleur (1898- ) (St L) son of Frederick Daniel and Alice, L-Cpl Canadian Infantry

Family wills

• Helleur family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Helleur burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

• Lowlands, St Lawrence

Family album

The Hellyer family before they emigrated to New Zealand in 1874. Back row: Matilda, John Elias, Ann Elizabeth; middle row: George Charles, Rachel, Charles George, Philippe Samuel, Alice Mary; front row: Ernest Alfred, Frederick Edward, William Robert. Rachel was Philippe Samuel's second wife. The couple had four more children in New Zealand ^[2]

Family gravestones

Memorial stone for Philip Helleur and his wife Anne, nee Lambert

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs

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

Notes and references

1. ↑ A note on the Helleur family, a copy of which is held in the Lord Coutanche Library of La Société Jersiaise, was compiled by A S Pipon and Brian Pipon to accompany this tree: It would appear that Matthieu Helleur came to Jersey in about 1679-80 and was possibly a Huguenot, although this is not certain [Huguenot refugees arrived in Jersey much earlier than this, or after 1685 - Editor]. Matthieu married Susanne Alexandre in 1682 and they settled in St Brelade, which was to be the headquarters of this family for at least 100 years. Unfortunately very little is known about the family, as none of them attained positions of any importance in island affairs, except for a few who served in the honorary police in St Brelade and St Lawrence. However, it is hoped that publishing all we know of this family will encourage readers to provide additional material
2. ↑ The very strange digital manipulation of this photograph, which appeared in a Facebook page in 2020, took place before it was sent to Jerripedia. It explains the regrettable distortion of most of the faces in the picture