Carrel

Carrel family page

Daphne Carrel (1928-2012)

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Carrel family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Carrel, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

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

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

A--B--C--D--E--F--G--H--I--J--K--L--M--N--O--P--Q--R--S--T--U--V--W--X--Y--Z

If you can help with information about the Carrel family, please contact editorial@jerripedia.org, using Jerripedia as the subject of your email. We are particularly interested in information which will help create further family trees, family histories and photographs

A blue link anywhere in the text will lead you to another page with more information on this family

Origin of surname

This name is derived from the ancient French quarel relating to archery terms.

Early records

The Carrel family has been present in Jersey since at least the mid 16th century. It is likely that the three family lines in the tree below share a common ancestry in the island, but this cannot be proved.

Variations

• Carel
• Carrel

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Thomas Carrel
• Descendants of Pierre Carrel
• Descendants of Bastion Carrel
• Descendants of Estienne Carrel
• Descendants of Moise Carrel NEW
• Descendants of Nicolas Carrel Added 2023

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Great War service

• Carrel family members who served in World War 1

Occupation records

• Carrel Occupation identity cards

World War 2 casualties

• Gerald Carrel

Family wills

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

• Carrel burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

• Carrel's Temperance Hotel, a family business on Gorey Pier
• Edmund Carrel was a newspaper publisher at 13 Broad Street in the 1860s and also a Centenier

Family homes

• Manor House, St Lawrence
• La Maison Gruchy, St Brelade

Family photographs

Primrose Tours 1925. Samuel Elmont and Edna Carrel, before they married, are towards the back of the charabanc

Click on any image to see the full-size version

Family gravestones

Click on any image to see a larger version. See the Jerripedia gravestone image collection page for more information about our gravestone photographs. Images of gravestones in other cemeteries will be added progressively

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. ↑ He married Janet McMeeking (1927-2010) in Knightswood, Dunbartonshire, in 1953, and their son Gordon was born the following year. He died in 1999, but three other children are still living. Raymond died in 1984]]
2. ↑ Most of his childhood years were spent in Guernsey, where he was raised by adoptive parents, Daniel and Alice LeCheminant. His mother, Lydia, having died of tuberculosis when he was only two years old. Philip, his father, was a builder, having served in the Merchant Navy previously, and was unable to look after Raymond, although he did manage to keep Gerald, the oldest of the children, and Daphne, the youngest. Before the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, Raymond was evacuated to the UK. He was sent to Glasgow, where he had no relatives, and was placed with strangers, siblings Paul and Bessie Jack, who had a small holding in Peel Glen, close to Bearsden. They moved to another holding in Hardgate, close to Clydebank, shortly after. The Jacks were pig breeders, and although Raymond had to work hard for them during his period of attachment, he spoke fondly of Bessie, and kept in touch with her for years. He served his national service with the Pay Corps, and he was in Edinburgh for a short time, before being posted to Palestine.