List of Subscribers to the Irish Poor, June 1822
From L'Indépendance, 8th June 1822.
Muskets, 1744
Distribution of muskets by the British Government to the inhabitants of Guernsey, October 1744. Said to come from a manuscript in the hand of George Syvret, dated 1817.
John Le Mesurier's estate, 1558
A transcript of a part of the manuscript collection that belonged to Colonel De Garis of Sous L'Eglise. There is also a companion partage for Collas son of Pierre. Both can be found in the Library's Le Mesurier files. Another copy is held in the Library's folders of Colonel de Garis MSS. The image below is a copy of the original signature (Richard De Vyek: Richard de Vic, J(?) De Lyle: J de Lisle) on the document. The other copy is signed by 'Henry' and Richard De Vic.
Carteret Priaulx
A brief obituary of Carteret Priaulx, from the Independance of September 21, 1822.
Birth, Marriage, Death Certificates and Records
The Priaulx Library can provide copies of most original birth, marriage, or death (BMD) records of anyone whose life event took place in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. (Our Alderney records, however, are incomplete.) Please consult our downloads page for more specific information. This can be done on a look-up basis for enquirers who cannot attend the Library, and will include a copy of the record. The information can be researched by the enquirer in person at the Library, in which case the cost will that of a printout of a scan from microfilm. These costs are subject to revision. Copies of BMD…
Isaac Brock: letters after his death, 1813
'Poor General Brock's high spirit would never descend to particulars.' Contemporary letters that vary in their opinon of Guernseyman Sir Isaac Brock, from A Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in 1813. 'Alas! my dear Colonel, we are now no longer commanded by Brock, and our situation is most materially changed for the worse. Confidence seems to have vanished from the land, and gloomy despondency has taken its place.' Brock's own voice can be heard in his letters, in The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B: interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh collected and edited by his star-struck nephew, Ferdinand Brock Tupper, copies of which are available in the Library.
Dobree, Le Mesurier, Perchard
From Edith Carey's Scrapbook, Lukis Memoirs (MSS).
The Fund for the Relief of Guernsey Prisoners in France, 1806
Supplement to the Gazette de Guernesey of 16 August 1806.
Poor Johnny Hotton
From a note in the Notebook of Elie Brevint, minister of Sark from 1612 until his death at the age of 87 in 1674. Written around 1610, this extract refers to events in his father Cosme's time as minister at the end of the 16th century. This is quoted in the Guernsey Magazine, or Monthly Illustrated Journal, for March 1875, p. 271; there is a copy in the Library.
Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court: II
List of names taken from Edith Carey's full-text extracts of the Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court, Library 41B. 17/18th century. II: Marriages annulled; Disputed Ownership of Pews; Abjurations of Rome; and Forbidding the Banns.
Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court: I
List of names taken from Edith Carey's full-text extracts of the Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court, Library 41B. 17/18th centuries. I: Those charged with Breaking engagements; Paillardize; Incontinence: Seduction under promise of marriage; and Cohabitation.
On the Death of a Young Lady, Aged seventeen
Mercure, Saturday, February 15th, 1823. Thursday, after an illness lasting several days, Demoiselle Marthe Le Lièvre, daughter of Mr. Thomas Le Lièvre, of Hauteville.