Origins of surname
Mahy is the Ardennes form of Matthieu, so the surname is derived from a personal name from this north-eastern part of France.
Early records
Mahy is very much a Guernsey name, and all those found in Jersey are believed to originate in the sister island. We were sent a skeleton tree which we were able to expand with the help of church records and online trees, but the latter can be very misleading, including one of the main lineages which shows dates for parents of a child born a century earlier. We have done our best to extract data to create the tree below.
Variants
- Mahy
- Mahie
- Mahier, possibly a variant but we show it as a distinct family
- Mahe
Family records
Church records
- Mahy baptisms in Jersey
- Mahy marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Mahy marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Mahy burials in Jersey
Family trees
Mahy family members who served in World War 1
- Jean Mahe (1891- ) (St O) son of Jean and Marie, Private, Machine Gun Corps
- Albert Daniel Mahy (St O), Private, Hampshire Regiment
- Auguste Mahy (St H), Private, Labour Corps
- Charles Mahy (1899- ) RE, then Mercantile Marine
- William John Mahy (1901- ) Mercantile Marine
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Mahy 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
- Francis Mahy, 4 Saville Street, St Helier, bequeaths to Charles Francis Mahy, William John Mahy and Elsie Mary Mahy in equal shares 4 Saville Street, St Helier - 11 February 1942, D/Y/A/109
- Henry Mahy of St Helier, desires to be buried in St Helier's Cemetery, bequeaths to the poor of St Helier, 10s 11 April 1850 - D/Y/A/27
- Maria Mahy, Savile Villa, Savile Street - 18 September 1940, D/Y/A/107
Burial records
Family gravestones
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Almorah cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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
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