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Lost things: La Maison Bonamy of the Pomare

From Edith Carey's Report of the Folklore Section of the Société Guernesiaise, Rep. and Trans. 1931, p. 149. The photograph shows the overgrown ruins from the road before their recent redevelopment.

The Heaumes of Guernsey County

Amongst the very first settlers in Guernsey County, Ohio, in the heart of Appalachia in the United States, were the two groups of Guernsey people who arrived there in 1806 and 1807, from whom the district takes its name. They were soon followed by other enterprising island families, and this is the story of one of them.

Will of Anne Blondel, 1662

No. 4 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies (Staff). The film of the original Ecclesiastical Court records may be consulted in the Library.

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.

De Beaucamp judgment

From Edith Carey Notebook, Visits to Guernsey.

Captain William Macey

The Star, May 9, 1895. Reprinted from the Leyton Free Press, May 4, 1895.

Will of Thomas Le Conte, 1662

No. 1 in Edith Carey's transcriptions Wills and Legacies, [Staff].

Will of Thomas Le Page, 1669

No. 49 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies books of transcriptions.

Paul Le Mesurier

The Monthly Magazine, XX (II) 1805, pp. 571 ff. 'At Upper Homerton, in his 51st year, Paul Le Mesurier, esq., alderman of London, representative in two parliaments for the borough of Southwark, a director of the East India Company, and Colonel of the Honourable Artillery Company.'

Le Pelley notes from Col. Le Pelley's MSS II

Contrats pour lire: 21 July 1589. Jean Le Pelley fils Collas de St Pierre du Bois [sells ] 6 bs de rente a Thomas de Lisle. Ditto 18 June 1598. Collette Pezett fille de Jean, de St Pierre Port [widow] de Jean Le Fyvre [sells] pour £33 sterling d'Angleterre & 12bs d'annuelle rente, La Croutte Pezett en St André, au fyeu des Esperons, cont. 10 vergees de terre, au north du Cortill John Bailleull, à l'est [] des Gouyes appartenant à Martin Belin à cause de [sa] femme fille de Thomas de Garys. A Collas Le Pelley fils Charles. Do. 5th September 1570 . Edmond Ettur [sells] à Pierre Le…

Will of Thomas Le Pelley, 1643

From Edith Carey's Notes on Sark, Le Pelley MSS. [Presumably a contemporary] translation from the French. Court of Probate, London.

Will of Marie de la Rue 1663

No.5 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, Staff.

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Lost things: La Maison Bonamy of the Pomare

The Heaumes of Guernsey County

Will of Anne Blondel, 1662

Will of Clair Blanche, 1663

De Beaucamp judgment

Captain William Macey

Will of Thomas Le Conte, 1662

Will of Thomas Le Page, 1669

Paul Le Mesurier

Le Pelley notes from Col. Le Pelley's MSS II

Will of Thomas Le Pelley, 1643

Will of Marie de la Rue 1663

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