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.
Wills & Legacies
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.
Partages
A list of the partages transcribed in the notebook Partages No. 1, Staff.
De La Mare partages
From the Le Hurel collection, donated by Esther Hatton.
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.
Second Bill of Partage of Guillaume Henry's estate, 1512
Transcribed in Partages No. 1, Staff.
Will of Gillette Sampson, 1663
From Guernsey's Ecclesiastical Court. No. 7 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, Staff.