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Independent Islands => Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark => Topic started by: Lori Noel on Saturday 05 December 15 16:06 GMT (UK)
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My mother was Helene Rosa Laffoley (the youngest child of Celeste Laffoley) who married Thomas Noel. I had an Aunty Alice who married Fred Stagg in London. I also had a relative who might have been Alice's child, whom I called Aunty Rae, but I believe her actual name was Lorraine Laffoley. I know she married Ken Duvey, but I would like to know who were her actual parents. She also had a son, Peter, known as Peter Duvey or Peter Fife. All of these relatives are now deceased, but I would love to hear from anyone in the Laffoley family in Jersey who could shed more light on their lives, especially my aunty or cousin, Lorraine or Rae Laffoley. I now live in Melbourne, Australia and it's difficult to find out information from here.
Thanks in advance to anyone who has any information for me.
Lorraine Noel
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Hi,
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Sandra
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FreeBMD (.org.uk) is showing:
Marriage, June qtr 1930
Lambeth Registration District vol 1d, page 618
Laffoley, Alice E
Stagg, Frederick E
I'm not seeing any children to that marriage?
But FreeBMD only covers England & Wales ???
Looks as if Alice Evelyn Laffoley was born 1906 in Jersey, Channel Islands?
The 1911 census has 83 Laffoley's living on Jersey! ;D
Some places you could search for more info:
Jerripedia
http://jerripediabmd.net/Default.aspx (for BMD's)
http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Jerripedia
Channel Islands Family History Society
http://www.jerseyfamilyhistory.org/
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London & England Electroral registers 1960 show Frederick Stagg and Alice E Stagg Chatto Rd Battersea South Wandsworth London.
London & England Electroral register 1935 shows Alice Evelyn Stagg and Frederick Thomas Stagg 154 Bennerley Road Wandsworth SW12
Sandra
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An online tree shows parents as George Phillip Laffoley born 1873 in St Martins, Jersey Channel Islands passed away 17 Feb 1956 in Jersey Channel Islands. Mother Celestine Catherine Dutertre
born12 Feb 1871 in St Lawrence, Jersey Channel Isles passed away 29 July 1933 in 1 Old St James Place,St Helier, Jersey Channel Islands. Burial - Almorah Cemetry, St Helier, Jersey, CI
Family living at 1 Old St James Place,St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands 1911
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7J4-TVP
Same tree includes an entry for Lorraine Bayliss born 1923 and passed away 2002 Jersey Channel Island. Residence listed at Thorn Cottage, 9 Dauvergne Lane,St Helier - Jersey Channel Islands in October 2002 - with son Peter Fife (Duvey) and Frederick Thomas Stagg.
http://www.192.com/atoz/people/duvey/lorraine/je2/1588743351/
If this tree is not yours, it would give a contact
Sandra
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There was a marriage St Geo H Square - Q1 - March 1916 - Reginald N Bayliss and Lillian E Laffoley. 1a 1158
Death registration Ms Lorraine Duvey - 1923 - 2 November 2002 - St Helier, Jersey
Sandra
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From JerripediaBMD:
Baptism, 13th January 1873, at St Martin
George Philippe Laffoley (no parents notified?)
Not seeing a baptism for Celestine?
The actual registers are in Jersey ::)
I will ask for this thread to be moved to a Channel Islands thread - hopefully one of out CI experts can pick it up?
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Meanwhile, while we are waiting for a CI expert - a possible for George with his parents - 1881 2 Old Post office Jersey Channel Islands
Philip Laffolley 62 Ann Laffolley 50
Francis Laffolley 17 Mary A. Laffolley 15
Alice Laffolley 14 Joseph Laffolley 12
George Laffolley 8 Louisa Laffolley 3
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ivywebster&id=I154
Sandra
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Probate entry for Reginald Edward Bayliss of 38 Victoria Crescent, Eccles, Lancashire passed away 21 January 1954 at Park Hospital Davyhulme Lancashire. Administration Manchester - 24 March to Lillian Elizabeth Bayliss - widow - effects £1431 14s.
Sandra
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Helene evacuated from Jersey in 1941 just before the German Occupation but applied to return although many who applied remained in England at the end of WW2. She went to Ainsworth, Nr Bolton in Lancashire and had 3 children with her, Barbara Helen aged 11, Thomas Graeme aged 10 and Lorraine Sandra aged 1 month. She was born in November 1912.
Thomas was with her at the same address, his occupation in Jersey was Pastry Cook and in the UK he was a Turner, he was born in April 1912.
Helene seems to have been the youngest of at least 12 children, parents as given in an earlier post. I should be able to find out more about them next week, the Archive is closed for stocktaking until then.
The information about Helene and Thomas comes from the Archive website as does the following,
Grant of Probate of Georgette Christine Laffoley, widow of Rowland Frederick Picot and wife of Kenneth Archibald Duvey, of Whitby House, St Aubin's Road, St Helier. Dated 26/11/1976. [Includes three closed documents]
Reference: D/Y/B1/249/43
Date: November 26th 1976
Georgette was one of the many children of George and Celestine so maybe she was Aunty Rae
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Thanks for the reply. I've had some health problems so sorry for the late acknowledgement. Helene was my mother and I am Lorraine Sandra Noel born in Lancashire in 1944. My mum was born in 1913, as shown on my birth certificate. When the family evacuated, I was not yet born. Mum had about 16 siblings and one was Georgette, who we always called "Aunty Nina". Nina married Kenneth Picot and after he died she married Ken Duvey. The lady we called "Aunty Rae" as actually my a first cousin but much older than me, born in 1923. She also married Ken Duvey and I know there was some scandal about Aunty Nina pinching him from Rae or vice versa. Rae's real name was Lorraine Laffoley and I suspect she might have been the illegitimate child of my Aunty Alice, who was 17 and in London when Lorraine Laffoley was born. Aunty Alice later married Fred Stagg in London, but that was about 6 or 7 years after the birth of Lorraine Laffoley. I also had an Aunty Lillian in London, another of my Mum's older sisters, and she married Reg Bayliss of London. It's possible that they might have adopted or brought up Alice's child, but all this is speculation. Lorraine Laffoley might also have been Lillian's natural child, but she is not listed on any census showing Lillian and Reg. If you could find out any more, I'd be pleased to hear from you again.
Thanks,
Lori