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Jaunay Family History

Jaunay - the name, facts and figures 1800-1990

Continued...
For the period under examination I have located three distinct Jaunay families lwith enough detail to extract some statistics. Family 1, my own family, is represented by fifty-four people living during the period under research. It includes one family who styled themselves de Jaunay after World War II. Family 2 as represented by seven individuals, used the forms Jeaunay, Jeaunais and Jaunay and has now died out. Family 3 is represented by three people and is the result of a man taking on the Jaunay name by deed-poll after his mother married into the family. There are ten other Jaunays who have yet to be linked to any family. No Jaunets fall within the period of the study. A total of seventy-four people! [Since writing this paragraph in 1993 the numbers have grown and 33 families and many more people are now identifiable.]
A decade by decade examination on numbers of living people born with the name reveals the following...

1800s	3	1870s	7	1940s	22
1810s	6	1880s	14	1950s	27
1820s	5	1890s	15	1960s	26
1830s	8	1900s	16	1970s	34
1840s	7	1910s	19	1980s	44
1850s	10	1920s	21
1860s	9	1930s	20

Of the seventy-four people under study, fifty-one were male, twenty-two were female and one whose gender cannot be determined.
The individuals were represented by first given names totalling forty-five for the males and eighteen for females. The most popular names represent french heritage although only a minority of individuals were born in France. Each of the following names was represented more than once...

Male		Female
François/Fran[c]k	4	Anne/Ann/Annie	3
Louis	4	Louisa/Louise	3
David	3
Pierre/Peter	3
Arthur	2
Auguste	2
Mathieu/Matthew	2
Robert	2
Andrew/André	1

A second or subsequent name...

Male		Female
Fran[c]k	1	Louise	1
Pierre	1	Marguerite/Margaret	2
David	2	Yvonne	2
Louis	2	Mary/Marie	4
Andrew/André	2
Robert	3

The following table represents addresses where Jaunays were resident for more than five years...

1800 - 1850	ENG - MDX: FRA - CHA RPA AQU PL
1851 - 1900	FRA - CHA RPA PL: AUS - SA VIC QLD
1901 - 1950	FRA - RPA: AUS - NSW SA QLD: NZ
1951 - 1990	FRA - RPA: AUS - SA QLD: NZ

Chapman Codes are used for this table
The English interlude results from one family fleeing the French Revolution and descendants of that family migrated to Australasia. I do not have enough information to chart the Eighteenth Century.
Data on significant life events has been collated but the reader needs to be aware that the sample is very small and so they must treat the result with some caution. Nonetheless some significant indicators have arisen. Age at marriage has been ascertained for some thirty-five individuals and the average is a high 27.8 years. The youngest was 16.4 years while the oldest first marriage occurred at 62.2 years.

Average age at first marriage
	Males [no]	Females [no]	Both [no]
1800 - 1850	30.2 [3]	23.5 [2]	27.5 [5]
1851 - 1900	21.9 [4]	00.0 [0]	21.9 [4]
1901 - 1950	27.9 [8]	25.5 [5]	27.0 [13]
1951 - 1990	32.5 [9]	20.1 [4]	28.6 [13]
Overall	29.9 [24]	23.2 [11]	27.8 [35]

It would seem from these figures that Jaunay males marry slightly later in life than the expected community average for the time. This may be a reflection of their level of affluence in the Nineteenth Century. Amongst their number they include a London restaurateur and Reims champagne-makers.
Several identified people married more than once. Three men and two women married a second time, while one of the men married for a third time. All the second and subsequent marriages were celebrated after 1900.

Average age at second marriage
	Males [no]	Females [no]	Both [no]
2nd marriage	51.5 [3]	30.4 [2]	43.0 [5]

The Jaunay marriages do take into account the seasons with fewer marriages in the dead of winter. Autumn and spring are the most popular times for weddings although the southern hemisphere summer is also popular.

	Northern	Southern	All
March	2	3	5
April	1	2	3
May	1	3	4
June	1	1	2
July	1	0	1
August	0	2	2
September	2	0	2
October	1	2	3
November	1	3	4
December	0	2	2
January	0	3	3
February	2	2	4

Family size can be determined for thirty-two individuals, all of whom had legitimate children. The average number of children is 2.5 per family. The largest number of children in any family was only seven. No men became parents again in a subsequent marriage but two women did.

Average number of children
	Males [no]	Females [no]	Both [no]
1800 - 1850	3.0 [2]	1.5 [2]	2.3 [4]
1851 - 1900	6.0 [2]	0.0 [0]	6.0 [2]
1901 - 1950	2.3 [8]	2.4 [5]	2.3 [13]
1951 - 1990	1.8 [9]	3.3 [4]	2.2 [13]
Overall	2.5 [21]	2.5 [11]	2.5 [32]

Clearly Nineteenth Century Jaunay families were much smaller than the average for the whole population - a reflection of wealth?
The period between marriage and the birth of the first child has also been examined for twenty-one individuals and the average time is 1.6 years. The span of time ranges from a marriage a month after the birth through to 6.7 years between marriage and the birth of the first child.

Average time [yrs] between marriage and birth of eldest
	Males [no]	Females [no]	Both [no]
1800 - 1850	1.4 [2]	1.3 [2]	1.4 [4]
1851 - 1900	0.8 [1]	0.0 [0]	0.8 [1]
1901 - 1950	1.9 [5]	0.7 [3]	1.4 [8]
1951 - 1990	2.9 [5]	0.5 [3]	2.0 [8]
Overall	2.1 [13]	0.8 [8]	1.6 [21]

Longevity has also been examined and can be determined for twenty individuals. Of the total sample, thirty-nine persons were still living at 31 Dec 1990 but two of these have since died [they are not included in the table]. The longest life for a male was 86.6 years and a female was 97.7 years.

Average age at death
	Males [no]	Females [no]	Both [no]
18001850	61.4 [1]	00.0 [0]	61.4 [1]
1851 - 1900	17.9 [4]*	68.4 [2]	34.7 [6]
1901 - 1950	65.4 [3]	53.2 [2]	60.6 [5]
1951 - 1990	74.3 [3]	84.9 [5]	81.0 [8]
Overall	50.2 [11]	74.2 [9]	61.0 [20]

* three of these four deaths were infants
The high mortality rate for infant boys in the latter half of last century drags down the males average age at death. If these are ignored the overall average rises to 69.6 years.
Death in the last century was still very much a seasonal thing with the elderly tending to die of respiratory disorders in the colder months of winter while the summer epidemics took the young. This would not appear to be the pattern in the family. The sample is small due not only to the factors already mentioned but because French death certificates do not include cause of death and the IGI does not include deaths and thus this material is a little more elusive! The cause of death in the sample has not been ascertained for most as the cost of obtaining the certificates is large.

	Northern	Southern	All
March	1	1	2
April	0	1	1
May	0	0	0
June	1	0	1
July	1	0	1
August	0	2	2
September	0	0	0
October	1	2	3
November	0	1	1
December	1	1	2
January	1	4	5
February	3	1	4

Several issues need to be noted in analysing these figures. Firstly females appear to be under-represented. This may be because in following name trails from the present back in time one follows the male line. Although French records are very detailed, they can be inaccessible to the remote researcher in that the flow of information depends very much on the workload and commitment of the local archivist! Unless you can be quite specific the data will not be forthcoming! Thus to seek siblings of a known person can prove difficult! The French embargo on records less than 100 years old is also a significant barrier.
Apart from my own family most other Jaunays have been initially located by systematic searching through telephone directories and archival indexes. Once a person is discovered I attempt to ascertain the person's relatives from my own database and by seeking birth, death and marriage records for the individual. This has limited success depending on the mobility of the person but usually once I can locate one of the major life events things unfold quite rapidly, especially in France with the comprehensive records available.
The research has been undertaken using a software program called FileMaker Pro. I use this database to maintain all family records and have customised the fields to suit my needs as I have yet to find a commercial genealogical program which will do this.

© Graham Jaunay 1994

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This article was published: The Journal of One-name Studies Vol 6 No 4 Oct 1997

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