Origins of surname
Originally a personal name, this comes from the Hebrew Yaakov. The form Jacob became a surname in England and elsewhere in Europe, before it was ever used as a Jewish surname in any of its many spelling variations
Early records
The first Jacob/Jacobs record is the baptism of Jean, son of Jean, in St Saviour in 1653.
Variants
- Jacob
- Jacobs
- Jacobson
Family records
Family trees
We have not been able to establish any link between these four short trees, which all seem to start with different immigrants to Jersey
- Descendants of Jean Jacob
- Descendants of George Jacob
- Descendants of Samuel Jacob
- Descendants of Jonathan Jacob
Church records
- Jacob baptisms in Jersey
- Jacob marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Jacob marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Jacob burials in Jersey
Jacob family members who served in the Great War
- Arthur Jacobs, L-cpl in Royal Jersey Garrison Battalion
Family wills
These wills created by members of the Jacob 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
- Archibald Jacob, Squirrels Heath Avenue, Gidea Park, Essex, physician and surgeon - 6 February 1929, D/Y/A/89
- Elizabeth Jacobs née Myers, 18 Hill Street, St Helier - 10 August 1927, D/Y/A/87
- Ann Jacobs of St Helier, now of St Martin, widow of Thomas Binet, bequeaths to Annie Isabella Lamb, Nelson House - 22 September 1891, D/Y/A/50
- John Jacobs of St Kew, Cornwall, England, now of Haimance Cottage, St Helier - 21 June 1880, D/Y/A/41
- Jonathon Jacobs of St Helier - 25 October 1886, D/Y/A/46
- Emanuel Jacobs, 18 Hill Street, St Helier - 25 April 1923, D/Y/A/83
- Julia Jacobs, 8 King Street, St Helier, widow of Clement Noel - 28 August 1928, D/Y/A/88
- James Jacobs, Grouville, bequeaths to the poor of Grouville 5s - 14 May 1902, D/Y/A/61
- Henry Jacobson of St Helier 7 June 1760 - D/Y/A/10
Burial records
Family businesses
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
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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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