Bryant

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Le Dains in 1894, Thomas Edward Fleming, Harriet (nee Bryant), Clive, Irene, Frances and Olive May


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Origins of surname

This name is derived from the personal name Brian, and ultimately from the Celtic brigh, meaning strong

Early records

The first appearance of this surname in Jersey records was the baptism of Benjamin, son of John and Ann Bryant, in St Helier in 1836

Variations

  • Bryant
  • Bryan
  • Brian
  • Brien
  • Brient
  • Briant

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Family wills


These wills created by members of the family are now held by Jersey Archive. By visiting the archive site and using the names, dates and reference numbers shown here, it is possible to view a copy of each will. You will have to subscribe to the Archive's online service to do this. To find out more about this collection, which covers the period from 1663 to 1980, and how to search for your family's wills there, visit our Jersey wills page

  • Charles Bryant of 15 Cheapside - 27 November 1893, D/Y/A/52
  • Emily Bryan, St Helier, widow of James Gregory - 9 April 1947, D/Y/A/117
  • Jane Bryant, 5 Elizabeth Place, Parade, St Helier - 8 December 1915, D/Y/A/74
  • Jane Bryant, 9 Belmont Road, St Helier, widow of Louis Bremner Romeril - 2 June 1931, D/Y/A/91
  • Joseph Bryan of Ardwick, Manchester, - 11 June 1873, D/Y/A/37
  • William Bryant of St Helier - 5 February 1869, D/Y/A/34


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William Bryant

As these advertisements show, William Bryant had very diverse business interests. They were actually even more diverse than shown here because at the age of 40 he was not only running St Helier's public baths, but was also a coal merchant, a dealer in china and glass, and a shipowner.

William was born in Crediton, Devon, in 1822, the son of farmer John Bryant, and moved to Jersey some time before 1842, when he married Elizabeth de Ste Croix, daughter of carpenter James, at St Helier Parish Church. After spending some time trying to decipher William's trade, as shown on his marriage certificate, we decided that it was probably 'sett maker' - making the setts with which cobbled streets were surfaced.

William is listed among the principal Jersey shipowners of the 19th century, from 1846 to 1863, so he must have acquired his first ship at the age of 24. She was the 220-ton brig Elizabeth, built in County Durham. He was the owner from 1846 to 1853. Although the list of shipowners shows him among them for another ten years, we have not been able to discover which other ship(s) he owned.

William died, aged only 47, on 6 October 1868, leaving his widow to carry on his businesses. In his will he left her a third of his estate, with the remainign third to be divided between his surviving children.

William and Elizabeth had 12 children - William John (1843-1860), James Philip (1845- ), George Thomas (1848-1852), Eliza Ann (1850-1854), Elizabeth Jane (1847-1865), Julia Maria (1852-1853), Clara Matilda (1854- ), Alfred Henry (1855- ), Louisa Mary (1857- ), Emma Isabel (1858- ), Helene Lucy (1860-1861) and Walter Charles (1862- ).

Alfred Henry married Eliza Ann Voivenel in 1886, and they had a son, also Alfred Henry, who was killed in the Great War. Walter Charles married Elizabeth Haworth in Lancashire and they had four children. We have not been able to trace any further grandchildren of William Bryant, but as all his children were baptised in Methodist Churches, it is quite possible that any others who reached adulthood were also married by Methodist ministers.

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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.

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