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.
Notes from Edward Dobree's MSS
Udney Hall, Teddington. transcriptions of contracts &c., in Guille family file in the Library.
French emigres buried in St Peter Port, 1796
C. Hettier, Les Relations de la Normandie et de la Bretagne avec les Iles de la Manche pendant l'émigration, 1885.
The death of Mary Saumarez, October 1812
A letter from the Library's Mann-Dobrée collection, edited by Julia de L. Mann: Anne Dobrée to Henry Routh, October 8, 1812. Nineteen-year-old Mary Dobrée Saumarez was the eldest daughter of Admiral James Saumarez and his wife, Martha Le Marchant; Anne was her cousin. Henry 'Harry' Le Mesurier, son of Havilland, had just lost his arm at the Battle of Salamanca.
Lost things: Alexander's Hotel
Once one of the very favourite places to visit on a Sunday and eat pancakes, and subject of a poem in Guernsey French by George Métivier. The illustration, entitled 'Stacks of seaweed at Alexander's Hotel' is from R. Ellis' Rambles among the Channel Islands, by a Naturalist, 1854.
In death undivided: Alexander Herries
From the Star. The Library has in its collection a biography of Captain Herries, A young Borderer: a memoir of Alexander Dobrée Young-Herries, Captain, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, by David Frew, published in 1928.
Lance-Corporal Henry J Bisson
From The Star, September 14, 1916: Lance-Corporal H J Bisson, son of Mr H F Bisson, monumental mason, St Julian's Avenue, writes home to his wife, who lives at L'Islet, that he has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Captain Francis George Mockler, DSO, 1916
The Star, July 7th, 1916: We deeply regret to announce the death in action of Major F G Mockler, DSO, Royal Irish Regiment, which occurred on Sunday, July 2nd.