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Jaunay - the name, facts and figures 1800-1990
Reading recent articles in the Journal, I have started to wonder just how rare a family name can be. The Jaunay name must rank amongst the rarest! The following survey records only those persons who were born with the name Jaunay. While my records go back to 1700, the research in that century is at an early stage and only a few isolated references have been found.
The number of people bearing the name Jaunay has never been great although they appear throughout the historical record in France and England. At this point I have yet to research any other countries. Apart from early references in London Huguenots records, other Jaunays have been located in Loiret France. They were merchants of Rochefort on the Loire River whose records come to us because they were required to pay taxes. In the year 1734 - 1735, Pierre Jaunay dutifully paid his tax, while an Yvon Jaunay is also recorded as having paid his dues. The British Library catalogue records two Jaunay authors...
Isaye Jaunay, Remonstance au roy de France Henri III sur la reformation necessaire, 1616
Louis Jaunay, Histoire de évêques et archevêques de Paris, 1884
To research outside the period is also compounded by non-standard spelling and to date I have identified the following variants and as many misspellings. I have distinguished as misspellings those which do not fit the recognised variants, those which on a modified soundex test [a technique which relates names phonetically] are not closely related and/or where there are other records of the same person spelt in the more acceptable forms.
[I have modified the soundex test when applying it to French names due to the practice in French of not sounding the last consonant in most words. Thus Jaunet which would appear to not be a close match in fact scores the same as Jaunay.]
The name Jaunay has many spelling variants.
Jaunai, Jaunais
Jaunet, Jaunez
Jaune, Jauneau
Jaunard, Jaunasse
Jeaunais, Jeaunay
The forms Jaunay and Jaunai are considered the most rare.
Jaune, surtont dans les diminutif Jauneau, Jaunet+ (-nez, Nord et Nord-Est), péjjoratifs Jaunard, Jaunasse, surnom d'après la couleur jaune du teint (plutôt que d'après la couleur des cheveux). - Jaunay représente un nom de localite (Quest: Vienne, etc) parfois aussi Jaunet. [+ indique les noms de famille très répandus]
Jaune, especially in the diminutive forms Jauneau, Jaunet+ (-nez, north and north-east) derivative forms Jaunard, Jaunasse, nickname according to the yellow complexion (rather than according to the colour of the hair) - Jaunay represents a name of a locality (Query: Vienne, etc) sometimes also Jaunet. [+ indicates the family name is very widespread]
Albert Dauzat, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille st prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse, Paris, 1980, p342.
The form Jaunai is not recognised by Dauzet but is identified by Jougla de Morenas as a rare form.
The forms Jeaunais and Jeaunay are not recognised by either authority but at least one Jaunay family used these forms prior to 1830. Soundex rules indicate a close relationship.
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