What's in Family Focus?
[Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates and Records, General]
The diary of Jane Maria Barlow, 1833-1838
Nicolas Dobree and the heroes of Cobo
A variety of vicars Alderney ministers
On the death of a young lady, aged 17 Martha Le Lièvre
Major Byng Died in a duel, 1795
The duel between Thomas Andros and Kenneth Beauvais, 1780
Edward Pope The governor of Anticosti
List of Subscribers to Fund for the Irish Poor, 1822
John Le Mesurier's estate, 1558
Isaac Brock: letters after his death, 1813
The Fund for the Relief of Guernsey Prisoners in France, 1806
John Hotton Captured by Bretons and dropped in it by his mates
Memories of Peter Perchard: Lord Mayor of London
Some Perchard memorial inscriptions
Peter Paul Dobrée: classicist
Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court: Lists of names of those involved in cases (17th century)
One brave soldier: the death of Thomas Falla, aged 18
Scandal! Le Hardy vs Bonamy, 1697: a curious saga played out amongst the aristocracy.
Matthew Herivel wastes his time and money on a girl, 1685: he got her in the end, though.
James Rougier and Jeanne Brouard, 1696; Samuel Le Mesurier and Elizabeth Brett, 1690
The will of Eléazar Le Marchant, 1832
The will of Eléazar Le Merchant, 1716
Captain Robert John Le Mesurier McClure: Arctic explorer.
The Guernsey Lily: De Beauvoir, Bonamy, and De Jersey
The Grange House sales: from Peter Mollet's Notebook, 1790/1.
Elizabeth Le Cocq of Alderney: a naughty girl.
Tom Sticks: Thomas Le Marchant.
La Manie des sobriquets: 18th century nicknames (not all of them nice).
Matthew De Saumarez: a pompous man, some say.
Thomas De Saumarez: his brother; he had 28 children, but "never more than 14 alive at one time".
Des Caudeville and Heirs of Poulson v. Boyrenson, 1854
Frederick Le Page as St Andrew: A Cobo fisherman's portrait in a Suffolk church.
The Will of Etienne Falla, 1667: Henry De Jersey breathes a sigh of relief.
Jean Falla's Commission, 1663: Lord Hatton makes an appointment.
The Musée Dobrée in Nantes: a link
Francoise Archenaux, Poisoner: She got away with murder (or nearly).
The Grange in 1826: A nice description of an elegant road, from a tourist guidebook.
La Haie du Puits: 18th-19th century gossip from the Lukis memoirs, transcribed by Edith Carey.
Julia de Lacy Mann: Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and local historian who transcribed a fascinating collection of family letters from Guernsey held in the Priaulx Library.
The Wedding of Margaret Baynes and Gother Mann, 1845: a very entertaining and immediate letter describing this marriage, which took place at the Town Church. Written by Louisa Routh to her mother; Margaret Mann wrote letters from Trinidad, which have recently been published and can be consulted in the Library.
A Herm Tragedy: The Drowning of Walter St John, aged 13, August 1597: poignant evidence from an inquest. A trip to Herm led by the Governor, Sir Thomas Leighton, ends in the death of one of a group of 13-year old boys and his young tutor, who attempted to rescue him from the current. This type of evidence has been only rarely retained in Guernsey.
Walter St John: a background to his family and others mentioned in the text of the inquest into his death.
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
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