Peter Paul Dobree, by his friend, the economist George Pryme
From Autobiographic recollections of George Pryme, 1870, with mention of Dr James Jeremie, Regius Professor of Divinity, also from Guernsey.
The Grange in 1826
From Cochrane's Guide to the Island of Guernsey, published by the author in Market-Street, Guernsey, in 1826.
Jacques Le Batard
The Gazette de L'Isle de Guernesey, of which the Priaulx Library has copies to view, published an unusual announcement in July of 1795. The newspaper reproduced in its entirety the sentence passed in the Royal Court upon a Frenchman from St Germain in Normandy, called Jacques Le Batard. The results of criminal trials were not normally published in the early Gazettes. Why this one? The sketch of the pillory and cage in 1795 are from the Lukis memoirs in Edith Carey's Scrapbooks in the Library.
What Sarah Fyers saw from a window in Gibraltar
17-year old Sarah Fyers was with her father with the garrison in Gibraltar in 1801, a few days before her wedding to Cornelius Mann, when she witnessed the first part of the Battle of Algeciras from the breakfast room. A handwritten copy of her eyewitness account is in the Dobree-Mann collection held at the Library. She was a close relation by marriage of Admiral James Saumarez, who played a crucial part in the battle and eventual victory.
The Grand Bosq: Fautrart, Martin, Le Marchant
Le Bosq and the Royal Hotel: the Grand Bosq. The illustration is a plate from Berry's 1815 History of Guernsey.
John Williams
John Williams, seaman, aged 25 years, five feet five inches high, dark complexion, black hair, slender made; has a scar on the back part of his head; is tatowed, and a native of Guernsey; speaks French.
Naftel, Street, Tranter
A link to some delighful 18th-century portrait miniatures that have found their way to Australia, and some photographs from the same collection.
Some Brock Family Miniatures
Notes by Miss Mary Elizabeth Guille on some Brock portraits. Written November 29 1902, when she was aged 81. William Brock, Henry Brock, and Harriet Brock were children of William Brock (1725-1768) and Judith de Beauvoir. The leading portrait is of William Brock; it is signed P J, for Philip Jean, and dated 1786.
French Dirt is the Worst
An amusing anecdote from a Methodist pioneer in the island.
Merchants and Traders of 1711
A list of the names of the merchants operating in Guernsey who voluntarily paid tax towards expenses incurred by members of a States' Deputation to the King, in 1711, with the amount of tax they paid reflecting their income.
The Diary of Harriet Brock Pengelley - a link
Is it indeed true am I here? divided by the Atlantic from a mother so justly adored, a father so truly beloved, my parents—Oh! let me still think I am dreaming—that I have not left you—bid you such a long, such a sad adieu.
The escape of Avicia Lernaise: from Edith Carey's notebooks
The Bordiers.