Gibaut

Gibaut family page

A Mrs Gibaut photographed by Ernest Baudoux

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Gibaut family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Gibaut, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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Pre-1500 arms researched by Julian Wilson

Later arms

Later arms

Origin of Surname

Gibaut is old French for a billhook, although how that became a surname is difficult to imagine.

Early records

The name appears in the Extente of 1528 and Jean, Philipot, Johan, Sire Louys and Piers are mentioned in the Jersey Chantry Certificate of 1550.

Jean Gibaut (see link to family tree below) was born in St John about 1506 and married Marguerite Sarre, daughter of Simon and Catherine Larbalestier. Sire Louys Gibaut (1534- ) and Edouard Gibaut (1530 -) were their sons, and Marie Gibaut (1536- ) their daughter

Louis Gibaut was born in St Lawrence about 1575 and died there before 1619. He married Marguerite Balleine, daughter of Pierre and Marie Robin.

Catherine Gibaut was born in St Lawrence about 1504 and was the daughter of Jean (1478- ). She married Jean du Parcq and they had a son Guillaume

Catherine Gibaut was born in St Lawrence in 1595, the daughter of Nicolas and Catherine Le Brocq. They also had a daughter Mauricette (1588- )

Payne's Armorial of Jersey

Emigrating at the commencement of the 15th century from Flanders, this family settled in the parish of St Lawrence, where its representative still lives. Nicholas Gihaut, or Gyhault, as the name was then spelt, was Rector of the parish of St Saviour so early as 1497. Louis Gybault was Vice-Dean of Jersey in 1514. And a namesake and collateral relative, another Louis Gybault, possessed the living of St Clement in 1567.

From this ecclesiastic, who was born about 1530, the existing family of the name directly descend. Its chief representatives are Abraham Gibaut, of La Vallée, Colonel Moses Gibaut, Philip Gibaut, Constable of St John, and Moses Gibaut, of Mainland. The junior branch descended from a second son of the Rev Louis Gybault, of St Clement, is extinct.

The estate of La Vallée, in the parish of St Lawrence, comprised at one period four hundred vergées of land, and has been held by the ancestors of its present possessor for at least 450 years. The house, perhaps one of the most antique in the island, still stands, being now used as an outhouse.

Two parishes

Nearly 400 of the 492 Gibaut baptisms in Jersey were in the parishes of St Lawrence (225) and Trinity (160). What is currently a mystery to us is that only one burial is recorded in the transcription of the Trinity register, although there must have others. Most of the family trees below are for the St Lawrence branch of the family. We are working to establish more trees for the Trinity branch, which was the older of the two.

Variants

• Gibaut, 1668
• Gibault, 1474
• Gybault, 1497
• Gibaux 1433
• Gibeaux
• Gibaud
• Gibert
• Gebault

Family records

Family trees

St Lawrence

• Descendants of Jean Gibaut - 2
• Descendants of Pierre Gibaut a different descent from the above tree
• Descendants of Moyse Gibaut
• Descendants of Isaac Gibaut
• Descendants of Jean GIbaut (1565) an extended version of the above tree
• Descendants of Jean Gibaut and Marie Hamon
• Descendants of Jean Gibaut and Susanne Bertaut

Trinity

• Descendants of Jean Gibaut - 3
• Descendants of Jean Gibaut - 4

Church records

Tips for using these links

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

Société Jersiaise Library records

• Bertram records in La Société Jersiaise Library, including references to members of the Gibaut family Added 2018

Great War service

• Gibaut family members who served in World War 1

Occupation records

• Gibaut Occupation identity cards

Family wills

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

• Gibaut burial records 1820-1978

Family histories and biographies

• Lieut Alfred Gibaut

Family businesses

Family homes

• Broadfields, St Lawrence
• Maison Charles, St Lawrence
• Avranches Farm, St Lawrence
• Mainland, St Lawrence
• La Qualité, St Lawrence
• Cap Verd, St Lawrence
• Beau Vallon, St Saviour

Family album

Jerripedia editor Mike Bisson cannot resist the temptation to use the website's records and other sources to find out more about a postcard sent over a century before it was added to the site, after being put up for sale on an online auction site. The first part of this one was easy - the 1901 census reveals that the recipient of the card was Clementina Gibaut, then aged 15, and that she lived at Egypt Farm with her parents, farmer John (1854- ) and his wife, also Clementina (1861- ), her elder brother John, younger sisters Edith and Irene, and five more brothers, Edwin, Herbert, Raymond, Lewis and Harold. Jerripedia's family records database reveals that John was John Francis Abraham Gibaut, son of Philippe, and that he married Clementina Elizabeth Huelin, daughter of James and Mary Ann, nee Renouf, at Trinity in 1881. She was recorded in the wedding entry as Clementine, but in all other records as Clementina. The identity of the sender of the card is less certain. Janie could have been one of several Jane Le Riches, but Mike thinks it most likely that she was Jane Elvina, the daughter of Abraham Nicolas Le Riche and Jane Esther, nee Nicolle, born in Trinity in 1885

The postcard above was added to the site in 2021, and three years later Mike came upon this photograph of the three Gibaut sisters of Egypt Farm, Clementina, Edith and Irene

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

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