Guernsey family records go on to Findmypast
10th April 2025
The Priaulx Library is now an Affiliate partner of Findmypast: Findmypast now holds many of the island's family history records. Click here to find out more
The sea rovers of Cherbourg, 1748
14th March 2025
Cherbourg was a den of dangerous corsairs and sea rovers in April 1748, as Captain Etienne Mourant of the Expedition and his passengers found out to their cost. From the Derby Mercury
Guernsey in the shipbuilding days
28th January 2025
From The Star of 6 February 1913. 'A writer connected with the shipping interests of the island has written the following brief history of Guernsey's shipbuilding days which will be read with interest by many readers.'
Guernsey Folk Songs
28th November 2024
'The miller, the donkey and the girl'. Letters to the Editor of the Guernsey Evening Press.
Thomas William Gosselin Ledger
27th November 2024
Staff.
Will of Jean Vautier, 1699
21st November 2024
I, Jean Vautier being sound of body [but] being of a profession in which I often fnd myself in danger of death because of storms at sea ... Firstly, to the poor of St Peter Port, 20 sous tournois. Item . To my two sisters, Marie and Elizabeth, 10 sous each and as for the remainder: to my beloved wife Catherine Le Poitevin for her to live the rest of her life in the house and land that I own at Fermain, in right of my mother, Marie Le Chevalier [La Chevaliere]. Drawn up at St Peter Port 9 May 1699. Jean Patron, witness, William de Putron, witness. IGBD Reg: 4 May 1703
Pioneers to Racine
20th November 2024
Guernsey Evening Press and Star, Monday 17 February 1913. 'GUERNSEY ISLAND SENDS MANY PIONEERS TO RACINE. ROSTER OF IMMIGRANTS SHOWS SCORES WHO CAME FROM LITTLE ISLAND. (From the Racine Daily Times.)'
Will of Marie Olivier, 1663
20th November 2024
No. 9 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies 1
Guernsey's Oldest Charter discovered at Exeter
9th October 2024
A documant from when Guernsey had a Vicomte, and was still part of the Duchy of Normandy. From the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette of 4 January 1922
Guernsey, Jersey, Underwear, and Socks
16th August 2024
Holiday Reminiscences of Guernsey and Sark, from the Guernsey Press and Star of Friday 19th June 1903.
Where is Guernsey?
16th August 2024
Getting Guernsey out there. A letter lambasting the marketing efforts of the Edwardian Chamber of Commerce (there was no Tourist Board). Guernsey Evening Press and Star, Thursday 5 August 1909
Captain Ross: The Antarctic Expedition
9th August 2024
A letter sent from a local member of Captain Ross' Expedition via the ship Alarm from the Falkland Islands, from the Guernsey Star, of September 15, 1842.