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General
This
site is concerned with the Jarmaine family. We are based in England with
origins now traced back to the early 1700's in the Oxfordshire area of South
Weston and Lewknor. The name has varied over the years
according to who has written it down. Member of the same immediate family
have been baptised various versions of Jarmaine, eg
Jarmain, Jermaine, Jermain,
Germaine, Germain etc. Our first known reference in
the middle of the 18th century records the name in church records
as Jermyn. For the next 50 years the name was spelled as Jermain(e) Germain(e) Garmain(e). Towards
the end of the 19th century it was more commonly Jermain(e) and Jarmain(e). However, by the First World War it was only
JARMAINE with only occasional misspellings. Now, in January 2001, we now find
that it is quite likely that the name was spelled as G(J)ermany, G(J)armany, Jarmon(e)y, Garmony in the
17th/18th century. We do not know of any links abroad, with the exception of South Australia, at
present. However, we are interested in hearing from anyone with information
no matter how trivial it may seem to you - we may not know it!
Geographical
Movement
My
earliest known ancestor, 4x great grandfather Edward has children baptised at
South Weston and Lewknor, Oxfordshire from 1751 to
1772. Edward died and was buried at Lewknor in
1806. His grandson Richard (born 1805) was baptised at Lewknor
and may have been the first member of my immediate line to move from
Oxfordshire. Richard was a shepherd and was married in 1836 at Croydon,
Surrey to Amy Terry from Horne, Surrey. Nothing is known of their movements until his
son William was born at Bletchingley, Surrey. The family then remained in this area for the
next 30 - 40 years before moving to Redhill, Surrey about 1890.
The
Oxfordshire Years
Edward
JERMYN married Sarah and had children in Lewknor,
Oxfordshire as follows:
Sarah
JERMAIN born 1751 m Robert CLARK(E) in 1775
Edward JERMAIN born 1752 m Ann BAYER or BOYER in 1774
John JERMAIN born 1754 m Sarah HORTON in 1775
Elisabeth JERMAINE born 1755 m Christopher HAY(E)S in 1786
William JERMAIN born 1756 died 1756
Mary JERMAIN born 1758 m Richard DIMMOCK in 1790
Patty JERMAIN born 1760 died 1760
William JERMAIN born 1761
Hetty JERMAIN born 1762
Jane JERMAIN born 1764 died 1764
Charles JERMAIN born 1765 died 1804
Hannah JERMAIN born 1767 m William OAKLEY in 1800
Joseph JERMAINE born 1768 m Martha Jones in 1790
Jane JERMAIN born 1772 m Richard BEAMSLEY in 1801
The Surrey Years
My
great grandfather, William Jarmaine, was born at Blechingley
in 1851. Surprisingly, no siblings have yet been found. William married Ann
(Annie) Hillman in 1872 at Bletchingley and had 11
children all of whom survived. In the late 1890's the family moved to Redhill and William and Annie's children married as
follows:
William
Richard Jarmaine born 1873 m Eliza Bourne in 1895
Amy Ann Jarmaine born 1875 m John Pickess in 1897
Lilian Elizabeth Jarmaine born 1877 m Albert
Wilkins in 1899
George Henry Jarmaine born 1879 m Sarah
Ann Elizabeth Ogilvie in 1901
Percy James Jarmaine born 1881 m Florence Annie Pedder
in 1906
Leonard Edward Jarmaine born 1883 m Beatrice Louisa in 1903
John Jarmaine born 1885 (died unmarried in the Great War in1916)
Louisa Jane Jarmaine born 1887 m John Ware in 1916
Emily Rebecca Jarmaine born 1889 m George Morris in 1908
Caroline Jarmaine born 1891 m William Edward Dale in 1914
Alice May Jarmaine born 1896 m William Palmer in 1921
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Updated 3rd March
2010
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