Sword Exercise of the Cavalry
J. Gaspard Le Marchant, Rules and Regulations for the Sword Exercise of the Cavalry, LONDON, PRINTED for the WAR OFFICE, and sold by T. EGERTON, MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL, 1796.
Family History
Guernsey Parish Chapel and Cemetery Records
A list of the registers we have available on microfilm in pdf format. Most of these are also available in hard copy. Other records are available in hard copy only. These include: Census of St Pierre du Bois (householders) 1827, from the original held by the douzaine. Index of the inmates in the Town Hospital 1809-22. Index of States of Guernsey Register of Stranger Poor 1892-1914 (complied R-M Crossan). Transcriptions of Town Church Baptisms 1829-1840 (Churchwardens'). St Saviour's Independent Chapel Baptisms 1841-1927. Nôtre-Dame RC Church Burials 1803-50. Index of Sark Registers . Sark…
Notes from reports of Historical MSS Commission: II. Notes from inquisitions post mortem
Section II from the Notebook (40) XI, Staff, in the Library. MSS transcriptions: inquisitions post mortem. These lists almost certainly predate the publication by the Societe Jersiaise of the islands' royal extentes and rolls etc. in 1902-3. Additions from Edith Carey's Family notes & pedigrees which begins with a transcription of Nicolle's volume.
Bread and hot cross buns
From the History of the Guernsey Churches scrapbook.
Sarnia: Brief Memorials of many of her sons (civil, military, and naval)
A digitized copy of Ferdinand Brock Tupper's collection of biographies of eminent Guernseymen, arranged chronologically, beginning with John Andros in 1554, and ending with the death of Bernard Ouseley Brownrigg in 1864.
Lord Byron's Newfoundland Dog, 1823
Edward Le Mesurier was the son of Havilland Le Mesurier and Elizabeth Dobrée. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy before settling in Genoa, where he married Amelia Augusta Wright.
Essay on the Institutions, Laws and Customs of the Island of Guernsey
The short preface to the 1889 first edition of Laurent Carey's work of reference, which was used on a day-to-day basis by the Royal Court in its proceedings.
The Grange again
The earlier history of the Grange, according to the Library's 19th-century Lukis MSS, transcribed by Edith Carey. Edith Carey's additions are in brackets.
Selected House Pedigrees
The History Section of the Societe Guernesiaise has produced a set of pedigrees of houses taken from Guernsey's Livres de Perchage, which list the owners of a particular house from the earliest times at which it was rated, together with a glossary of French terms found in these documents. These will prove very useful for genealogists and can be consulted at the Library, as can our collection of original Livres de Perchage.
Using the Library II: church registers
How to get the best from Guernsey's unique church registers.