Picot

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Picot family page


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This is one of Jersey's longest-established families,
with records dating back at least to 1309

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A Mrs Picot photographed by Billinghurst and Smith


Record Search


Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Picot family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Picot, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

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New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Mourant and Picot families


Origin of Surname

Picot is the Normandy word for a turkey, which suggested to the Rev George Balleine that the original holder of the name strutted as he walked. This is the derivation favoured in Normandy, where the family has been most numerous in France.

However, other sources suggest that it was first introduced to England after the Norman Conquest in the form of a personal name "Pic", and later with the added diminutive suffixes of "et" or "ot", it became initially Picot, Pigot and Piket. The original derivation is from the word "pic", meaning sharp or pointed, and it was a common element in words and names, being used for a steep hill, or the use or manufacture of sharp or pointed implements or weapons, or even as a nickname for a tall, thin person.

Early records

The name is found in the Assize Roll of 1309.

Strangely, despite the family having been present in Jersey for some 700 years, it merits only three mentions, as spouses in the family trees of others, in Payne's Armorial of Jersey. The families present in the late 19th century were clearly not sufficiently affluent to pay for inclusion in the publication.

Variants

  • Picot 1299
  • Picott 1607
  • Le Picot 1381
  • Le Pikert c1340
  • Piquot 1331
  • Piket
  • Le Pikot 1309
  • Le Piket 1299
  • Piquet/Picquet - found in family groups with both spellings
  • Picquot - only three church records with this spelling
  • Pickett - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
  • Pikett - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
  • Pigott - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
  • Piggot - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
  • Picott - more likely a spelling error than a variant
  • Pykett - not recognised as a variant in Jersey
  • Pygot - not recognised as a variant in Jersey


Family trees

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Family trees



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Church records

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Family histories



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Great War service



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Family wills



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Burial records


Family homes

Occupation curfew cards

Curfew passes issued to Charles and John Picot during the Occupation as members of the Trinity Honorary Police [1]

  • Charles Picot

  • John Picot

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Family businesses

Herbert Nicholson Picot's grocery shop at 13 Cheapside in about 1910

  • 1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey

  • Picot boots and shoes

  • James Picot, charcoal merchant of Don Road

  • James Picot

  • George Picot, merchant and iron monger of 4 Beresford Street

  • 1857

  • 1857

  • 1862

  • 1874, James Picot coal merchant in Don Road

  • Piquet's ginger wine essence was sold at 11 Halkett Place ...

  • ... as was this tonic

  • 1890

  • 1886

  • 1861

  • 1860

  • Piquet's, Queen Street, 1946

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  • The back of a photograph taken by Joshua Picot, who traded at 11 and 13 Beresford Street in the 1860s.

  • Parr's Bank, which acquired the business of Robin Brothers, was managed in Jersey by F L Picot in 1915

  • 1925

  • 1887 advert

  • A very unusual advert in 1881 for a Gorey shipbuilder

  • P Picot was proprietor of the Britannia Inn in St John in 1881. This was 40-year-old Philip. who lived at the Britannia Inn, Mont Mado, with his wife Lydia, nee de Gruchy, and sons Elisha (2) and Alfred (1) at the time of that year's census. The couple had married in 1869

  • 1887 advert from L'Almanach de la Gazette de Jersey

  • 1889 Nouvelle Chronique advert

  • 1906

  • 1857

  • 1887 advert for Matthew Picot's Queen Street business

  • 1859

  • 1859

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Family album

A postcard sent by Lucille Picot in 1906

  • A family picnic for Le Sueurs and Picots

  • Members of the Le Sueur and Picot families on an outing

  • A Picot baby photographed by Ernest Baudoux

  • Mrs Picot - by Baudoux

  • Alfred Picot and family

  • Alfred George Picot (1864-1916) (St S to Utah) son of John and Jane Bertram Picot

  • John Picot (1860-1925) (to NZ), s of John Francis and Emilia Le Huquet; m Isabella Simpson

  • John Lionel Picot (1887-1960) son of John

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  • Philippe Picot

  • Mrs Anne Picot

  • William Picot was born in Grouville in 1857 and emigrated to Australia at the age of 19. He was the son of John and Elizabeth, nee Bertram. There are records showing him as William Arthur Wallace Picot, born in Cornwall, which appear to be a complete invention. A descendant's research has so far been unable to substantiate the family legend that he was a member of a ship's crew and jumped ship in Adelaide, before making his way to Melbourne

  • William Picot with his wife Emely Mary Ann, nee Cutler, and their children

  • Christina Picot, daughter of John, born in Jersey in 1860, and Isabella, nee Simpson (1857-1931) in front of the family home in New Zealand

  • Isabella Simpson (1857-1931) wife of John Picot, born in Jersey in 1860

  • The first Picot family home in Wellington NZ. John Lionel Picot is standing in front with his mother Isabella

  • The Picot family business in Wellington. John Lionel Picot is standing in the doorway in shirt sleeves

  • Frederick Lewis Picot

  • Jean Piquet

  • The Rev Charles Picot, born in 1840, wrote racy stories and tales of ghosts and witchcraft in the early 20th century under the pseudonym C du Mont. He wrote in the eastern Faldouet dialect of Jèrriais . This dialect, which probably died out in the mid-20th century, is notable for the 'z' sound which replaces the 'th' or 'r' found in the centre and west of the island.

  • Ruby Picot (1912-1999)

  • Christine Emilia Picot (1884-1966)

  • Edmund Gallichan and Lucy Elsie, nee Picot

  • Herbert Nicholson Picot (1884-1957)

  • Herbert Nicholson Picot

  • John David, Audrey Erith and Eric Wilfrid Picot

  • John Picot (1816-1898) and Jeanne, nee Filleul

  • Jersey emigrant John Picot's family home at Dingmans Ferry, Delaware

  • This 1840 letter, apparently to a Mr P Picot, predated the 'Penny Post' postage stamp era by a few weeks, but cost the same ...

  • ... exactly 100 years later, a last chance to write to a Jerseyman serving in the Royal Navy in World War 2. A week after this letter was sent the Germans invaded and the island was sealed off from the outside world

Family gravestones

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  • Almorah cemetery

  • Almorah cemetery

  • Almorah cemetery

  • Almorah cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • Trinity Church cemetery

  • St Mary’s Church cemetery

  • Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • Mont a l’Abbe cemetery

  • St John’s Church cemetery

  • St John’s Church cemetery

  • St Ouen parish cemetery

  • St Ouen parish cemetery

  • St Ouen parish cemetery

  • St Ouen parish cemetery

  • Sion cemetery

  • Sion cemetery

  • St Peter parish cemetery

  • St Brelade Church cemetery

  • Surville Cemetery

  • Submitted by a user, cemetery unknown

  • Cemetery unknown

  • The grave of Great War casualty Charles Edward Picot at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium

  • The grave of Great War casualty George Charles Picot at Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium


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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Notes and references

  1. ↑ These cards are held by Jersey Archive. Visit The Archive online catalogue for more information. A subscription may be needed to view some of the site's content
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