Relic of the past: Jeanne Le Moyne, April 1625
From The Star, January 25 1915.
Documents, Le Hurel
From a wonderful cache of documents from Le Hurel in St Saviour's, donated by Esther Hatton in 2014.
Hirzel Frederick de Lisle and Mary Carey, Pre-nuptial agreement, 1832
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.
Notes from Edward Dobree's MSS
Udney Hall, Teddington. transcriptions of contracts &c., in Guille family file in the Library.
Elizabeth College Cricket XI, 1913
Four of these boys died in the First War. Photograph from the Library Collection.
Walter Ollivier: They used to swallow the gunpowder
Ollivier the gunsmith, by Bernard Brett, from The Star November 1947. The business at 1, Tower Hill, was begun by his great-great grandfather in 1800.
Amelia Maria Hortensia Collings
'Medical jurisprudence in relation to insanity,' from The Journal of psychological medicine and mental pathology, Volume 1, 1848.
Le Pelley notes from Col. Ernest Le Pelley's MSS
Transcriptions of documents referring to the Le Pelley family, from Sark/Le Pelley file in the Library.
Le Pelley and Mauger
Transcribed notes, Sark/Le Pelley file in the Library.
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.