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Guernsey (The Bailiwick includes Alderney and Sark)[From Grose's 'The Antiquities of England and Wales', 1777]
Guernsey is 6o miles s. w. of Weymouth, about 26 W. of Normandy, 21 from Jersey, 5 from Alderney, and six from Sarke. It is about 12 miles long, nine broad, and 30 in circumference, containing 50 square rniles or 32,000 square acres. It has 10 parishes. The air is healthy, and its soil, like Crete and Ireland, is said to admit no noxious animal. It abounds with fish, particularly a fine sort of carp; and its rock produces a kind of emeral, very hard. The island is plentifully supplied with corn and cattle. Nature has defended it with a ledge of rocks, and art with an old castle, and a pier constructed of vast stones, thrown together with great art in the days of Edw. II. Here is a great scarcity of wood for fueling, which is supplied by the sea vraic.
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The Priaulx Library, Candie, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 1UG.
Web: http://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/
Contact details: http://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/contact-a-librarian.asp
States of Guernsey Island Archives Service
29 Victoria Road, St Peter Port, Guernsey.
Published Guide: D.W. Le Poidevin - "Tracing Your Ancestors in Guernsey"(Taunton
1978). Now out of print and seriously out of date!
Books about the Channel
Islands Part of Charles Picot's Pages - a book list of essential reading
about the Islands.
Published Guide: James Marr's "Guernsey People" (Phillimore 1984).
Stephen Foote's Index of 'Guernsey
As It Used To Be' by G.W.J.L. Hugo (St Peter Port 1865-1880)
Guernsey, Alderney and Sark are included in the Census for England and
Wales - taken every 10 years from 1841-1891.
1841, 1851, 1861, 1881 and 1891 indices presently only available
in the Channel Islands at the Priaulx
Library; the Archive Room of the The Family
History Section of La Société Guernesiaise in Guernsey;
the Library
of the Société Jersiaise and the CIFHS
Research Room in Jersey.
1871 underway see The Family History Section
of La Société Guernesiaise.
1881 also available through the LDS Family History Centres worldwide.
St Peter Port: The Town Church
Baptisms from 1563 - Marriages from 1565 - Burials from 1566. Semi Indexed
(by surname and page number only)
St Peter Port: Later Parishes (created when the Town Church was no
longer big enough)
St Johns: Baptisms from 1840 - Marriages from 1858
St Stephens: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from 1865
Holy Trinity: Baptisms from 1847 - Marriages from 1858 - Burialsfrom
1858
Other Miscellaneous Registers
The Marriage Chapel at St James-the-Less: Marriages 1915-1970
Candie Cemetery: Burials 1847-1986
Country Parishes
Vale: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from 1577
St Pierre-du-Bois: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from 1625
Castel: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from 1674. Early records
indexed.
Castel: St Matthews: Baptisms from 1854 - Marriages and Burials from1855
St Sampson: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from 1713
St Saviour: Baptisms and Marriages from 1582 - Burials from 1609
St Martin: Baptisms and Marriages from 1660 - Burials from 1728
Forest: Baptisms and Marriages from 1700 - Burials from 1704
St Andrews: Baptisms from 1575 - Marriages from 1573 - Burials from1574
Torteval: Baptisms from 1684 - Marriages from 1721 - Burials from1739
For the smaller Islands see Alderney Ancestry
& Sark Ancestry
Parish Register Copies in the Library of the Society of Genealogists: Channel Islands (Bailiwick of Guernsey records including Sark).
Mike de Carteret's Index to The Strangers Cemetery (St Peter Port) - as the name implies, mostly non-natives (18th and 19th Centuries).
Began in 1842. Records at H.M. Greffier, The Royal Court House, St Peter
Port, Guernsey GY1 2PB.
Telephone (01481) 725277. Office Hours 9.00 a.m.to 5.00 p.m. Schedule of
charges at the Greffe.
Public access to the Strong Room between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. for a nominal
£1.00 charge and details can be copied from their records. The Priaulx Library also have the
indiceson microfilm.
Note: Guernsey Marriages were not subject to Civil Registrationuntil 1919
- so the coverage is incomplete prior to that date. Go to the Parish Registers
instead.
For the smaller Islands see Alderney Ancestry
& Sark Ancestry
Property Transactions: Date (spoken - but copied out)and Lire (written)
contracts that went before the Royal Court are in the Greffe. They date
from 1576 and indexed both by the surname of the vendor (Bailleurs) and
the purchaser (Acquéreurs).
Historical Descriptions of the Channel Islands
from Grose's The Antiquities of England and Wales, published in 1777 .
Many older Channel Islands houses have dated stones including the initials
of the owners - these are in the process of being located, identified and
indexed at the The Guernsey Datestones Project.
Tracing the history of houses can also be underaken through the Livres des Perchages: Guernsey.
Published Guide: John McCormack's "The Guernsey House" (Phillimore1987).
John Fuller's Channel
Islands Genealogy includes a surnames list compiled by John
Fuller of the Channel Islands-relatedresearch interests of a number of Internet
and CompuServe users and many useful links.
Research in the Channel Islands FAQs (Frequently
Asked Questions). Civil Registration Details, Research Librariesand Family
History Societies plus FAQs Links Page.
Peter Guilbert's Guernsey
Genealogy Interests Site
Published Guide: James Marr's "A History of the Bailiwick of Guernsey"(Phillimore 1982).
Guernsey Museum and Galleries
The Alderney Index
From 1924, property records are at the Cadastre Department, Nelson Place,
Smith Street, St Peter Port. This department is very busy, dealing with
rating matters and rent control, and has little time to undertake research
requests. If visiting in person, make an appointment (01481) 721239. However,
your enquiry stands a better chance of being answered if you refer it through
the States of Guernsey Island Archives Service.
Livres des Perchages are surveys undertaken
at intervals by the representatives of the Seigneur of a fief recording
details of his holdings and tenants - most are in private hands. States of Guernsey Island Archives Service has a selection
and access to many others not actually on their premises.
Published Guide: John McCormack's "The Guernsey House" (Phillimore1987).
Guernsey Norman FrenchOld Maps of the Channel Islands from 1683 and
1784.
The essential modern map to find your way around Guernsey is Perry's Guide.
Available from any bookseller in map form; as an A5 (black andwhite) booklet
or the Professional Edition, an A3 size coloured book.
Maritime
Stephen Foote's Guernsey Crew Lists Index
GuernseyWeekly
Press Internet Edition
Guernsey Press Online
Freddie Cohen's Makers
and Dealers of Channel Islands Silver and Their Marks.The records of the Town Hospital (Guernsey's Poorhouse 1743-1900 ) are
at the States of Guernsey Island Archives Service
for more information go to St Peter Port Town Hospital
Journals.
Wills of Personalty (each book indexed individually in Greffe - see Civil Registration) and Wills of Realty (one
big card index in Greffe). The former are the responsibility of the Ecclesiastical
Court from whom permission must be sought before copies are made. The Greffier
can do this for you.
The Channel Islands FHS
PO Box 507, St Helier, Jersey JE4 5TN. Information, Officers of the Society,
Subscriptions, Programme of Events 1998-99, CIFHS Publications - Current
and Forthcoming, Links. CIFHS Journals - Contents
List 1996-98.
The Official Société
Guernsiaise site (which includes the Family
History Section) PO Box 314, Candie, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1
3TG. My page dedicated to The Family History Section
of La Société Guernesiaise will come down at the end of
November.
The Channel Islands
Occupation Society (Guernsey Branch)