Thomas William Gosselin Ledger
27th November 2024
Staff.
Georgian
A letter to Mary Harrison, 1799
17th February 2023
A letter from Mary Naftel, nee Higman (b. Cornwall, 1756-1820), to Mary Harrison, 1799. From The Friends' Miscellany, Volume 11. Mary was the wife of clockmaker and Quaker Nicholas Naftel (1762-1852), and travelled extensively in the ministry, including to America.
Irish smuggling
30th March 2022
From Report relating to frauds in the Customs, 1733, Appendix, pp. 634-5.
Tracing the history of local newspapers
14th October 2020
By Victor Coysh
High Street 100 Years Ago
8th October 2020
Pus nou vieillit, pus nou pense,/ Au temps pâssaï qui n'est pus. From the Star, 1932, a résumé of an article written in 1842 describing St Peter Port in 1800.
Ban on thatch, 1816
18th September 2020
From the Gazette de Guernesey, 2 November 1816. The appearance of wider St Peter Port would be changed by this Order of the Royal Court.
Guernsey miscellanea
28th November 2019
Guernsey miscellanea, a notebook by Edith Carey
Extracts from old letters
22nd May 2019
Affecting 18th and early 19th century letters, from the Carey family, transcribed from a notebook of Edith Carey, Guernsey miscellanea. The image is of the famous Bell Savage Inn, on Ludgate Hill, London, where Catherine Baldock nee Carey reluctantly stayed in 1790 (see letter below), and is from the British Museum, Museum number 1880.1113.3266.
Smuggling the salt, 1719
7th January 2019
From John Baskett's The Acts of Tonnage and Poundage, and Rates of Merchandize &c, London, 1731.
Remembering 1780
13th November 2018
From Ferdinand Brock Tupper's History of Guernsey, printed by Stephen Barbet, New Street, Guernsey, 1854, p. 434. 'From the MS of a Guernsey jurat, now deceased, written in 1839 or 1840, we extract the following:'