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Family History

Baptism and godparents, 17th century

Insight into the 17th-century parent's mind, from Pierre Le Roy's MSS notebook. Published in 1893, it was edited by the Reverend George Lee, who gives the original French and a translation. Pierre was the schoolmaster of St Martin's parish.

Proceedings of Consistory of St Martin's, 1627-1655

Transcribed by Reverend George Lee. Personal names and reason for charge. For fuller details of the document please contact the Library.

Guille family contracts &c

From Guille family file in the Library. St Peter Port and St Martin 15th and 16th centuries. Typescript transcription.

Notes from Edward Dobree's MSS

Udney Hall, Teddington. transcriptions of contracts &c., in Guille family file in the Library.

Hirzel Frederick de Lisle and Mary Carey, Pre-nuptial agreement, 1832

Hirzelbourne from Bellamy's Guide of 1843 in the Priaulx LIbrary Collection

From the De Lisle family file in the Library (No. 9). 'Articles of agreement made in the Island of Guernsey, on the Sixth day of October, In the year of our Lord 1832, by and between Hirzel Frederick de Lisle Esquire, son of the late Hirzel De Lisle Esquire, of the said Island, of the one part, Mary Carey, Spinster, daughter of John Carey Esquire, son of John, of the said Island, of the second part, and the said John Carey Esquire, of the third part. Bear witness.' The illustration is of Hirzel de Lisle's house, Hirzelbourne, now Swissville. The woodcut is by Dr Thomas Bellamy and was published in 1843 in his Pictorial Directory and Stranger's Guide to Guernsey.

William Blondel, 4 August 1570

Blondel coat-of-arms from Priaulx Library Collection

From the Lee MSS, Greffe, transcribed in Inquisitions post mortem &c, II, pp. 70 ff.; Blondel, who is based in London, sells his wife's property in Jersey and Guernsey to Pierre Priaulx and assigns power of attorney in Guernsey to Noel Lihou. The Blondel coat-of-arms is from a collection of watercolours at the Library.

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Family History

Baptism and godparents, 17th century

Proceedings of Consistory of St Martin's, 1627-1655

Guille family contracts &c

Notes from Edward Dobree's MSS

Hirzel Frederick de Lisle and Mary Carey, Pre-nuptial agreement, 1832

William Blondel, 4 August 1570

Bonamy rentes

Seasoned Troopers: Lois Wright and Albert Inder

Documents, Le Hurel

Marguerite Le Ber, 1843

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