Saumarez Papers 3

8th October 2026
  Bundle. Encl.:
28.02.1906 i. Letter from Frederick Maxted, Road Engineer, to John Le Messurier re drain under road at Saumarez crossing.
07.07.1899 ii. On tracing paper. Plan of Rue des Genats. Signed T J Guilbert States Surveyor.
2.11.1899 iii. Letter headed 43, Grosvenor Place. Instructions to buy land at Rue de Genats from W H Le Tissier.
16.08.1899 a. Guernsey. Letter signed Henry Le Tissier re land.
24.05.1903 b. Letting Port Soif field to M Billy. Building of Chapel.
20.05.1891 iv. Sale of Bunton Cottage in the Villiocq, Catel.
[1905] v. Summary of wages paid to Saumarez workmen 8 July - 23 December 1905.
02.08.1905 vi. 43, Grosvenor Place. Note of payment to Mr Laine's family. 
08.07.1903 vii. Letter from John Wesley Le Poidevin and Nicolas Le Poidevin re rent of Clotures.
02.21.1907 vii. Letter from Lord de Saumarez. 1 Rue Frederic Bastiat, Paris. Lord de Saumarez buying Mrs Mahy's Cobo premises.
10.01.1907 ix. Letter from J T Angell, builder, painter and undertaker, to Lord De S., re blocking up of windows.
09.06.1902 x. Letter, 97 Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris. Re Mr Smart's lease and Mission house building at Cobo.
02.06.1907 xi. Ditto. Re stabling at Les Houmets, Catel. Mentions a Gilliatt.
26.02.1907 xii.  1 Rue Frederic Bastiat, Paris. Re H M Ozanne ploughing up field, not allowed to grow bulbs.
01.11.1899 xiii. Letter from James Duquemin to John Le Messurier, Solicitor, re the propsed Bridge at Les Genats. Encl. plan. Mr Gibbon's right of way.
n/d xiv. Hand drawn plan, folded, of proposed route through Forest Lane. Rev. Bell's Hotel de Pairs Garden, Broughton Hotel Garden, Lord de Saumarez's Garden etc.
30.10.1899 xv. Hand drawn plan on waxed paper of Land at Les Genats purchsed by Lord de Saumarez from Henry Le Tissier in 1899.
  xvi. Proof of rents concerned in purchase of land at Les Genats: Nicolas Duquemin and wife Nancy Le Tissier, John Domaille, Pierre Henri Carre, Jean Robin, D J Mahy, Courtil Les Carterets.
22.02.1906 xvii. Letter from John R Brouard, President Public Thoroughfares Committee, to J Le Messurier, Solicitor, re drainage at Les Carterets. Rough plan on reverse
  Encl. a. Note from H Crack to John Le Messurier re problems with the waterway
09.03.1897 Agreement with Thomas Langlois and Co., electricians, re fixing wires for telephone above Lord de Saumarez's garden at Plaiderie.
  Envelope addressed to John Le Messurier, Le Marchant Street.
28.02.1906 Encl. a. Copy of letter from Fred. G Maxted, States Road Engineer, re servitude of water drainage.
09.03.1906 b. Letter from John Brouard, preseident of Public Thoroughfares Committee, issuing warning re non-compliance with above.
1931 &c Folder of cuttings from the Star (6 pieces).
1930, 1931 Folder of letters re work at the Grandes Rocques Hotel (6 pieces).
[1793 &c.] Extracts from letters written by General Le Marchant to his wife, copied by Spencer Le Marchant, younger son of Sir Henry Le Marchant. 4pp., one piece.
  Notes from MSS in possession of Mr Edward Dobree, Udney Hall. 'Copy of a MS lent me by Miss Edith Carey [G Lee?]'.
1954 Clipped together, 8 pieces, letters re sale of Fiefs. Lord De S in South Africa.
  Bundle, three deeds:
30.03.1770 a. Pew rents in Town Church, Brock, Dobree, Le Marchant etc.
30.03.1730 b. Sale of rents, same individuals as above.
02.05.1823 c. Judith Dobree endows St Andrew's school with rent to pay for a schoolmaster.
  Folder. Two typescripts: a. De Saumarez from Burke's Peerage; b. De Salinelles
  Folder.. Encl:
c. 1923 a. List of purchases made by Lord de Saumarez of houses and lands 1871-1923.
  b. As above, blue paper, fragile. 1892-1913, with amounts paid.
17.01.1878 c. Lease for 6 years of furze brakes to Amos Chick, copy in English.
  d. W V Quilter. Notes on the working of the Guet Quarry June-Dec 1932. Clipped, 5 pieces
1885 e. Copies of correspondence re the alterations at the Plaiderie, under Broughton's Hotel and Pollet roadway. Brass pin.
1930? f. Annual payments and receipts, Lord de Saumarez.
  g. Extract from Specification of alterations and additions at Saumarez Hall. pLans by James Duquemin (plans not incl.)
1885 h. Summary of cost of West Wing.
10.02.1897 i. Agreement of the Constables of the Catel for Lord de Saumarez to make boundary wall at Mare de Carteret from La Maison du Noc to La Sablonnerie
April 1911 (?) j. Scribbled letter, account of establishing rent of Guilbert's field. Crossed, may be from Th. G. Carey
n/d k. List of tenants, rents, and rents receivable. 3 pieces.
1924 l. 4 pieces. Tax on Rental Values, Saumarez Park.
  m. Note on purchase of and rents for Field Abraham.
1923? n. List of purchases made by Lord de Saumarez of houses and lands 1871-1923.
n/d o. 'Rents due to me from Godfrey Carey'.
1912? p. Lord de Saumarez. Registres.
1908? q. History of a piece of land near Cobo D Mahy to Miss Fritz etc.
1880s? r. Rents due by Lord de Saumarez for Saumarez Park and the Plaiderie.
20.01.1911 s. From W V Quilter. Doyle Road. Has learnt from reading Saumarez' book on Japanese houses that the roof tiles on the Japanese house at Saumarez Park are yedo tiles etc.  Work to be done at Mare de Carteret house.
  t. 43, Grosvenor Place. To W V Quilter re fields at the Rocque du Guet. 2 pieces
26.12.1925 u. Ditto. Intends to hand over property at Rocque du Guet to son. Instructs Ridgway. 2pp.
  v. Ditto. Rents on Drill field and Mare de Carteret. Overview of rents from tenants. 2 pieces.
11.01.1926 w. Ditto. Draft to Ridgway re accounts. Quarrel with Cobo Hotel re illegal encroachment and boundaries.
02.02.1926 x. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Titles and rents relating to Drill Field and La Mare de Carteret.
01.08.1924 y. C A Carey. Copy. To Patersons Snow & Co. Lincoln's Inn Fields, re drawing up of Lord de S's will and property in Guernsey.
10.12.1884 z. Bornement. Forest Lane. At instance of Lord de Saumarez. For construction of a house.
20.06.1915 aa. Copy. 43, Grosvenor Place. To Mr Carey. Re partage of his Guernsey estate. Rents on properties.
26.05.1882 bb. From James Duquemin, States Surveyor, re a request for a map and list of the Fief Saumarez. To W Richards.
  cc. Cutting from Country Life (?): advertisement for sale of the Haye du Puits.
26.05.1924 dd. Re Queen's Hotel,  Plaiderie. C A Carey, Re repairs.
15.01.1924 ee. C Carey to Lord de S. Re Commission to Gallienne and payment to wife. [Lord de Saumarez notes Carey has ignored instructions.]
05.04.1924 ff. Ditto. Re Mr Moore landlord and repairs to Queen's Hotel.
15.01.1925 gg.Ditto. Re Power of Attorney etc.
09.05.1924 hh. Ditto. Queen's Hotel. Mr Moore and lease.
21.01.1925 ii. Ditto. Explanation of rents due.
25.03.1924 jj. Ditto. Re subecription to the Militia Rifle Meeting. Re Moore and the lease of the Queen's Hotel.
04.01.1924 kk. Ditto. Accounts for half year to end 1923.
27.12.1923 ll. Ditto. Re Quilter taking over Home Farm. 2 pieces.
10.01.1923 mm. Ditto. Statement to last Christmas.
23.12.1922 nn. Ditto. 'Contract of Le Guet passed this morning.' Moore's tenancy.
27.12.1922 oo. Ditto. Plaiderie Hotel. Provision for an Exhibition Fund for Elizabeth College.
26.10.1922 pp. Ditto. Wish to purchase Guet Watch House. Power of Attorney to do so.
15.09.1922 qq. Ditto. Money for College. Moore's lease.
12.09.1922 rr. Ditto. Re Exhibition Fund for Elizabeth College. Trust to be set up. Purchase of Guet.
18.07.1922 ss. Ditto. Re Elizabeth College Exhibition Fund, structure of and contribution to.
07.07.1922 tt. Ditto. Re Elizabeth College Scholarship Fund. Purchase of the Guet Watch House or other forts.
04.07.1922 uu. Ditto. Statement of accounts for first half of 1922.
14.06.1922 vv. Ditto. Rents on Drill field and Mare de Carteret. Overview of rents from tenants. 2 pieces.
07.04.1922 ww. Ditto. Re rents at Saumarez Park. Elixabeth College Endowment Fund. Lt-Governor gave a lecture re Isaac Brock.
17.02.1922 xx. Ditto. Moore and lease. Subscription for Isaac Brock. Possibility of an Isaac Brock Chapel.
08.02.1922 yy.Ditto. Bonds on Saumarez Park.  Moore and the Queen's Hotel.
31.01.1922 zz. Ditto. Bonds.
27.01.1922 a1. Ditto. Bonds.
26.01.1922 a2. Ditto. Bonds.
23.01.1922 a3. Ditto. Bonds.
12.01.1922 a4. Ditto. Accounts
07.01.1922 a5. Ditto  Insurance. Plan for alterations to hotel to increase bedrooms. Moore's lease.
05.01.1922 a6. Ditto. Statement.
03.01.1922 a7. Ditto. Re Brock memorial. 
21.12.1921 a8. Ditto. Request to purchase strip of land at Guet from Jurat Bishop.
21.12.1921 a9. Ditto. Mortgage fo rthe Plaiderie Hotel. No portrait of Brock. Plan to opena side chapel to commemorate Brock.
28.12.1921 a10. Ditto.  Hotel. Redesign and lease. 2 pieces
18.09.1925 b1. Ditto.  Carey resigns as representative and hands over to Ridgway. Apologises for absence from island.
23.09.1925 b2. Ditto. List of docments he has handed over to Ridgway.
14.01.1924 b3. Ditto. Business affairs.
18.01.1924 b4. Ditto. Drafts in French and two translations for son and Mr Wood re Powers of Attorney. 117 parties to rents must each have a partage, very expensive.
23.06.1925 b5. Ditto. Partage newly drawn up following change in instructions.
27.08.1880 b6. Letter to Lord de Saumarez from James Duquemin, States Surveyor, with a diagram showing the different levels of the water works at Saumarez. 2 pieces, one a hand-drawn diagram, perhaps by Guilbert.
25.11.1929 b7. Letter to Captain J St Vincent Broke Saumarez from Stanley Collins, Architect, re property in Forest Lane and La Plaiderie. With photographic enlargment (not attached). Discusses how to lay out a new street. 3 pages, brass pin.
16.02.30 b8. Letter from H Crack re decoration of Saumarez Park. 5 pieces.
02.05.1952 b9. Letter, 3 pages clipped. W V Quilter to Lord de Saumarez. Description of quarries at Le Guet.
17.11.1929 b10. Ditto. Carey resigns as representative and hands over to Ridgway. Apologises for absence from island.
23.12.1930 c1. Letter. George Ridgway to Captain Saumarez re price of La Haye du Puits. The triangle. Possible hotel.
  c2. Typescript. Lord de S., Guernsey Property. Folded.
21.02.1933 c3. Copy letter. 43 Grosvenor Place. 3 pages, stapled. Lord de S unable to travel to Guernsey on account of health and blindness. Will hand management to son.
07.05.1933 c4. Ditto. 2 pages stapled. Re Captain Saumarez passing though Guernsey on way to Paris. Wishes to know about deeds. Asks for report of conversation.
16.05.1933 c5. Ditto. 3 pps stapled. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez in response to above.
16.05.1933 c6. Letter. 3 pps. George Ridgway to Charles Molesworth re the intentions of Lord de Saumarez concerning control of estate.
18.06.1929 c7. Letter. 3pps stapled.  George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Bostock will not cooperate in developing Forest Lane. Report of interaction with other property owners
10.08.1937 c8. Letter, typescript. Roland Davies to Captain Saumarez. Fathers charitable donations. Car hire. Jersey bookmaker would like to buy Grande Rocque (sic) Hotel.
  Folder. Green loose label: sales of land.
30.08.1890 a. Deed. John Falla Dumaresq sells to Pierre Daniel Ozanne. Moulin Susain aka Moulin de Haut des Grands Moulins. Also La Frenee; Le Pre d'Acier; le Jardin or Courtil Aubin; le Courtil Perrot, Courtil de l'Escallier. Meadow La Vielle Ecluse. Two houses known as Les Viviers. Furzebrake known as La Vallee de Gouebec.
27.10.1857 b. Deed. Helier Arthur and wife Marie de Garis from Richard Symes. Burton Cottage. Sold by Lord De Saumarez in 1899 to the Telephone Company.
13.12.1930 c. Two letters, pinned. 3pp. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez re Albecq land. Negotiations with Mr Bishop. Cancelled sale of Pre Saumarez. 13.12.1930. From F Matthews, Surveyor to Ridgway. Has valued land.
30.07.1930 d. W V Quilter. Notes on the working of the Guet Quarry June-Dec 1932. Clipped, 5 pieces
  e. Bundle bound with green silk.
30.07.1930 i. 43 Grosvenor Place headed paper. Lord de Saumarez. Hand written draft of letter to Ridgway re land sales.
02.08.1930 ii. Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez re sale of property. Albecq land.
07.10.1930 iii. Ditto. Land sales. Details of plots and tenants. Annotated in red crayon.
25.10.1930 iv. Ditto. Land sales: Le Guet; Pre Saumarez; Les Pins. Prospective buyers.
07.11.1930 v. Ditto.  Land at Albecq. Possible purchasers of Le Guet. Bishop and Barnsley.
12.11.1930 vi. Ditto. Lord de Saumarez to employ McGharel Hogg and dispense with Captain Davies. Repair work. Albecq land. Pre Saumarez.
14.11.1930 vii. Handwritten draft. Lord de Saumarez to Ridgway. Queries the land to be sold at Albecq. Wages for Crack, Squibbs and Girard.
05.12.1930 viii. Letter. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Has misunderstood which land was to sell.
11.12.1930 ix. Draft. 43 Grosvenor Place headed paper. Lord de Saumarez to Ridgway. Angry response to mistake. Must sell the correct land to Mr Bishop. Pre Saumarez overburdened with rentes, do not sell.
24.12.1930 x. Letter. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Bishop will not pay the valuation as there is a depression. Les Pins. Wheadon has it under cultivation with bulbs. Other fields at Cobo to sell. Pre d'Abraham.
27.12.1930-08.01.1931 xi. Bundle of draft letters from Lord de Saumarez to George Ridgway. 7 pieces. Re land sales.  Section of OS of Cobo traced onto blue wax paper and fields highlighted in red. [probably Wheadon, see above]
08.01.1931 xii. Letter. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Land sales. Les Cerfs. Les Pins. Pre Saumarez. Grande Rocque. Power of Attorney.
30.12.1931 xiii. Ditto. Cobo Farm - Enclosing Wall. Widening of Cobo Road.
15.12.1931 xiv. Castel Post office. Negotiations with Cumber.
14.21.1931 xv. Hand-written draft. Lord de Saumarez. to George Ridgway. Cumber wishes to buy La Planque house. Had planned to build a house for under-gardeners on side of the Villocq farmhouse etc. Repairs to Castel Post Office.
14.12.1931 xvi. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Sale of land to Stonelake.
11.12.1931 xvii. Ditto. Cumber suggests extra land be included in sale of Castel Post Office. La Planque. Round Chimney Field sold to Vaudin. Falla Field. Cobo Farm Wall. Stonelake. Mare de Carteret Field.
10.12 1931 xviii. Draft. Lord de Saumarez to George Ridgway re sale of fields to Stonelake. Repairs of wall. Catel Post Offcie.
10.12.1931 xix. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez, re Stonelake.
  xx. Tracing of OS on waxed paper, probably ref. to Cumber and La Planque.
  xxi. Draft. Lord De Saumarez, 43 Grosvenor Place paper. Re Cumber's offer.
  xxii. Copy of telegram to Ridgway. Unable to accept Stonelake's offer.
27.10.10 xxiii. Telegram. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez re Stonelake. 
08.12.1931 xxiv. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Cobo Farm Wall. Stonelake. Vaudin at Round Chimney Road. Castel Post Office, Cumber. Cobo Farm Bornement. Strengthening sea wall. Field facing Cobo Bay -- building of villas.
  xxv. Castel Post Office. Rough plan of roadways and realignment.
09.12.1931 xxvi. Draft on 43 Grosvenor Place paper. Stonelake conveyance.
26.11.1931 xxvii. Ditto. Misunderstanding as to his wish to provide a place for an omnibus station at Cobo.
  xxviii. Tracing paper. Plan of Bornement [Cobo Farm?] drawn up by J A LE Cheminant, Builder.
25.11.1931 xxix. 43 Grosvenor Place paper. Draft of telegram from Lord de Saumarez to Ridgway, re plan of bus station.
25.11.1931 xxx. Ditto. Draft letter re plan for bus station.
  xxxi. Ditto. Draft of telegram re le Tissier taking over fields from Ozanne.
01.12.1931 xxxii. Ditto. Lord de Saumarez to George Ridgway. Wall facing Cobo Bay. Buses.
19.11.1931 xxxiii. Telegram from Rigway to Lord de Saumarez re Cumber, Stonelake, Round Chimney.
  xxxiv. Draft of telegram xxix.
24.11.1931 xxxv. Letter from George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Re Stonelake. Field on Round Chimney Road. Grande Rocque Field. Cumber. Cobo Farm wall -- buses.
24.11.1931 f. Letter from George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Tenancy of land at Saumarez Park. Bragg, Cooke.
20.11.1931 g. Ditto. Castel Post Office - wiill not be public house. Field on Round Chimney Road. Mare de Carteret field. Stonelake.
24.10.1931 h. Ditto. As above.
10.11.1931 i. Work on Grande Rocque Hotel. Castel Post Office.
11.11.1931 j. Ditto. Stonelake etc.
  k. Rough plan of land, hand drawn: Stonelake, offer for land belonging to Lord de Saumarez, in red crayon. Folded.
09.11.1931 l. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Field called Falla's (No 13). Grande Rocque Hotel. Cobo Field. Stonelake (Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20 on plan).
04.11.1931 m. Ditto. Stonelake. Value of various pieces of land. Nant at Mare de Carteret.
17.10.1931 n. Ditto. Fields. Two tenanted by N Ogier. Rocque Ireuse (sic). Rents on Mare de Carteret. Castel Post Office. Ozanne tenancy at Ruette de la Tour to be taken by Clifford Le Tissier of La Pouqeleh.
06.10.1931 o. Ditto. Stonelake withdraws. Would like to prevent granite outcrop being destroyed. Cobo field -- Mare de Careteret.
  p. Rough hand drawn plan of Militia Field (10)' also fields 11-14. Rue de la Ronde Cheminee.
  q. Plan on blue waxed paper of land north of Mare de Carteret.
30.09.1931-23.11.1931 r. Bundle of draft letters and telegrams from Lord de Saumarez to Ridgway.
09.11.1931 s. Typescript copy. Letter from C Stonelake accepting offer to buy land marked on enclosed plan.
02.09.1931 t. Letter from George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Cobo Field. Le Villocq. Les Cherfs. Bragg at Saumarez Park. Cooke. Syvret. Grande Rocque Hotel, Palmer. Clipped with draft from Lord de Saumarez dated 03.09.1931 instructions to accept Bragg's offer.
25.08.1931 u. Letter from Stanley Jehan pp George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Bragg, Corn Merchant, would take over Ozanne's land and would like Les Pins. Clipped with draft response from Lord de Saumarez. Offer for Grand Rocque Hotel.
04.08.1931 v. Letter from George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. N Ogier. Sale of Mare de Carteret.
  w. Summary of Port Soif fields owned by Lord de Saumarez. 
01.08.1931 x. Letter from George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Heavily annotated in red crayon. Stonelake. Fields 13 and 14. Les Cerfs Cottage. Mr Wheadon. Mr Ozanne, Mare de Carteret. Power of Attorney.
28.07.1931 z. Ditto. Mare de Carteret Field.  Rentholders. Stonelake, Fields 13 and 14. 3 pp.
22.07.1931 aa. Ditto. Re Cobo Field. Fencing, Mare de Carteret rentes.
27.06.1931 bb. Ditto. Rocque Ireuse bought by Stonelake. Mare de Carteret Road.  H J Ozanne. Price of Hay. Les Pins.
20.06.1931 cc. Ditto. Valuations of land. Stonelake.
29.04.1931-20.08.1931. dd. Bundle draft responses to Ridgway from Lord de Saumarez. 
23.06.1931 ee. Typescript letter from F Matthews, Auctioneer and Valuer to George Ridgway. Re fields at Grande Rocque.
18.07.1931 ff. Letter from C Smith & Son, Caledonia Nursery, to Lord de Saumarez. Inspected the pines at the Guet and the Golf Links. Links very sandy but optimisitc for a good plantation.
  gg. Draft of several letters from Lord de Saumarez to Ridgway on one piece of lined paper. May 12th, May 14th.
  hh. Hand-drawn plan on waxed paper of land at Port Soif, Lord de Saumarez Plot No 16 of Book Plan.
10.06.1931 ii. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Stonelake's offer and plot sizes.
06.06.1931 jj. Ditto. Stonelake's offer, details.
03.06.1931 kk. Ditto. Grande Rocque land. Stonelake will buy all 10 vergees. Has Dupuy's old shop. To build one house. Grande Rocque Hotel work accounts.
25.04.1931 ll. Ditto. Smart - Port Soif. Cobo Farm -- Smith & Gardner. Pre Saumarez. Plots 10, 13, 14, 15 of Book Plan. No 15 is the hotel enclosure. 2pp. 
21.04.1931 mm. Ditto. Smart's tenancy. Post-boc at Grande Rocque Hotel. Port Soif fields.
  nn. Draft list of Lord de S's fields.
  oo. Plan of Old Golf Links at Grande Rocque let to Smart.
11.04.1931 pp. George Ridgway to Lord de Saumarez. Land at Albecq. Fields at Port Soif. Post box at Grande Rocque.
  qq. Ditto. Port Soif Fields. Sale to Smart. Albecq. 
08.04.1931 rr. Ditto. Shaw.
29.12.1930 ss. Ditto. Albecq. Les Pins. Wheadon's bulbs in fileds to be compensated for.
20.03.1931 tt. Ditto. Tenants of Port Soif fields. Albecq. Shaw.
11.03.1931 uu. Ditto. Port Soif Fields. Tenants.
25.02.1931 vv. Ditto. Fields valued. Albecq. Forest Lodge. Budget. Pre d'Abraham. Port Soif fields. Golf links. 4 pp.
02.02.1931 ww. Ditto. Building plots. Les Cerfs. Pre d'Abraham. Port Soif fields.
03.01.1931 xx. Ditto. Sales of land. Militia field.
07.03.1931 yy. F Matthews to Lord de S. Valuation of Port Soif fields.
10.01.1931 zz. Ditto. Valuation of Les Cerfs.
26.02.1931 a1. Valuation of field No 16.
  ab. Two loose Ridgway letter continuation pages to be assigned.
1794 on Folder of early annuities from 1794. James Saumarez, Judith Dobree, Thomas Le Marchant, other Lords de S.