July two hundred years ago ... or thereabouts
Excerpts, mostly from the Gazette de L'Ile de Guernesey, on this day (or thereabouts) two hundred years ago.
Religion
Ralph Durand
Ralph Durand (1876-45) came from an important Guernsey Huguenot family and was the Librarian at the Priaulx before and during the Second War. He was an explorer and author whose family history, described here, is full of interest, and includes refugees, soldiers, ministers, a provost of Eton, an actor-manager, and politicians.
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.
Nicolas Lenfestey des Brehauts
From The Guernsey Free Churchman, January 1925 p. 7. The life of the Methodist preacher, by George Rabey.
Guernsey 'Pilgrim Fathers'
From The Guernsey Free Churchman, February, 1924, and written by the Editor, the Reverend George Rabey. The Sarchet family emigrates to Ohio in 1806.
Lost things: St Magloire
From The Star, March 27th, 1915.
The will of Jean Moorhead, 1688/9
From the Ecclesiastical Court records, transcribed from the original (which can be seen on microfilm in the Library), by Edith Carey in her Wills and Legacies notebook.
Les Ollivier du Coin des Ecailles
From the Magasin Methodiste, LIV, 1880, pp. 28-9.
Nicolas De Garis, conscientious objector, 1805
By H D Olivier, from The Guernsey Free Churchman, March 1932, p. 23. 'Not honesty in the abstract but Honest is my name. And I want the kind of person I am to match what I am called.' The portrait is of a sympathizer, Etienne Gibert, Rector of St Andrew, the frontispiece of his biography, published in Toulouse in 1889, by Daniel Benoît, Les Frères Gibert, du désert et du refuge. This book includes the life of his brother Louis, also a Protestant minister, who emigrated to South Carolina.