There are different venues to search for family information depending on where your ancestors were living. Searching for family information on Jersey is a bit of a mixed bag. I was able to find my ancestor on the 1881 census for the Channel Islands through Ancestry. It's written in English. FindMyPast also has various census years which can be found under "Channel Islands, other Britain and Ireland". I also found an earlier census for 1788 for St Lawrence Parish Inhabitants on FMP, not that I had any ancestors that I know of living on Jersey at that time.
I was unable to find the death of either William Chubb in 1877 or his son, William John Stainer Chubb, in 1878 at FindMyPast or Ancestry. Church of England records for the major life events appear to be available on both of the major genealogy sites. For information on your nonconformist ancestors it's best to check out https://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org/ . So far I've obtained information about the burials of Chubb, father and son, in St Helier's General Cemetery. The entries are very sketchy containing the ages of the deceased, the date they were interred and by whom. They are also in French.
The lack of information on these burial records makes me question whether it would add anything to my knowledge if I obtained the official marriage record of William S Chambers and Sarah Ann Conway Chubb. Newspapers seem to be a better bet for finding information as I found an article in the Jersey Independent and Daily Telegraph for March 14, 1885 about the defective drainage on Mrs. Chubb's shop on Queen Street in St Helier.
Sources:
FindMyPast Newspaper collections
https://catalogue.jerseyheritage.org/
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