Guernsey miscellanea
28th November 2019
Guernsey miscellanea, a notebook by Edith Carey
Wills & Legacies
Will of Nicolas Le Huray, 1701
29th September 2016
Will no. 175 from Edith Carey's set of transcripts, Wills & Legacies, Staff, in the Library.
Will of Daniel Le Moyne, 1680
1st September 2016
From Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, a MS transcription of early Guernsey wills from the Ecclesiastical Court records, p 112.
Wills of Edward Cotton, 1691, and Marie Cotton, 1693
15th June 2016
From Edith Carey's transcription Wills and Legacies I, nos 154 and 159.
Wills and legacies
12th February 2016
A list of the nearly 200 wills dating from 1663-1707, transcribed and annotated by Edith Carey in 1916 in her notebook, Wills and legacies I & II, in the Staff collection at at the Library.
Tenure of real property in the island of Guernsey
22nd September 2015
From The Law Magazine and Law Review, or Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, May-August 1859, pp. 23 ff. Probably a comment on the reaction in Government circles to the Commissioners' Report of 1848, it also happens to provide a helpful explanation of the distribution of landed property and rentes in Guernsey. 'When the right and power is preserved among a free people of regulating their own legal and social customs, the habit of self-government thus engendered generally saves their country from the anomaly and inconvenience of the institutions and procedure being immediately at variance with the wants and character of the people.'
Manuscripts 1309-1464
15th September 2015
List of the contents of the bound volume entitled only MSS 1309-1464. The transcriptions are by various hands, and mostly appear to be late 17th century. The individual documents are in Latin or French and most have been published elsewhere.
Will of Thomas Le Conte, 1662
No. 1 in Edith Carey's transcriptions Wills and Legacies, [Staff].
Gagnepain, 15 December 1591
From Rev. George Lee's MSS, copied in [Staff] Inq. post mortem &c, XI, p. 66. The Gagnepains were a well-off family in Guernsey and Sark with extensive interests in England. Also a note concerning the Norman Mansel or Mancel family.
Will of Clair Blanche, 1663
No. 3 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies. The film of the original Ecclesiastical Court records may be consulted in the Library. Claire's death is recorded by Elie Brevint of Sark in his Notebooks I. 488; the Noel family had a significant presence in Sark.