What's in Family Focus?

The Diary of Harriet Brock Pengelley (1809-1836): the tragic writings and paintings of a passionate and unhappy Guernsey girl in Canada, with watercolours of local scenes

Merchants and Traders of 1711: a list of taxpayers and their contributions

Naftel and Tranter miniatures: a link to some lovely portraits now in Australia

John Williams and the Mutiny on the Bounty

The Grand Bosq and the Royal Hotel: the Fautrart, Martin and Le Marchant families were all associated with the history of this lovely house on the Front, which became a hotel and is now sadly lost to us

The Battle of Algeciras: what Sarah Fyers saw from the breakfast-room window: an eye-witness account of the battle in 1801 in which bride-to-be Sarah's relative, Sir James Saumarez, played a decisive role

Jacques Le Batard: ear today and gone tomorrow - punishment in uncertain times

French Dirt is the Worst: Adam Clarke preaches in Guernsey

An Eternal Stranger: Harman Blennerhassett. A history of the Strangers' Cemetery and the curious life of one of its occupants

The Escape of Avicia Lernaise: a 14th-century mother sentenced to death is let off on a technicality. Notes from Edith Carey's scrapbooks II

Some Brock Family Miniatures: Notes from Edith Carey's scrapbooks I

The English Butcher and the Brewer: class warfare in Napoleonic Guernsey

The Heaumes of Guernsey County: frontiersmen in the Appalachians

The Métivier Family: the vicissitudes of the family of our "national poet"

The Harvey Family: diarists extraordinaires

Maria Rosetti: from St Peter Port to Romanian Revolution

Ralph Durand: author, adventurer, librarian

The Family of Major-General J. Gaspard Le Marchant: hero and reformer, one of the greatest Guernseymen

For the Brehaut and Avard families in Canada see Case Study