The 19th century in newspaper cuttings

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19th century Jersey
in Newspaper cuttings



The front page of the first edition of the Jersey Loyalist on 5 September 1825 [1]


The best source for those interested in the history of Jersey in the 19th century is the newspapers published in the island at the time.

This was a century of great growth and diversification in Jersey. The island emerged from the 18th century as a largely isolated agricultural community, and although a sequence of three short-lived French language newspapers had appeared in the 1780s and 90s, the new century dawned with none surviving.

There would soon be more, however, and from the resurrection of one of the 18th century titles - Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey under new ownership in July 1800, Jersey would not be without a local newspaper again. [2]This page is part of a project launched by Jerripedia in 2024 to chronicle the history of Jersey through the 19th century using news cuttings from most of the newspapers published during those 100 years.

We started with the Jersey Loyalist, published from 1825 to 1831, and have now gone back to 1800, and onwards, with Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey

Gazettes de l'Ile de Jersey, Gazette de Cesaree, etc

The Jersey Loyalist

Notes and references

  1. ↑ The use of a semi-colon after the newspaper's name on the masthead has never been explained. On 8 November 1828 it changed, without comment, to a colon, but back to a semi-colon on 4 April 1829, which remained until the newspaper ceased publication in 1831
  2. ↑ The exact sequence of publications at the turn of the century is somewhat uncertain, because some copies of the Gazette appear not to have survived to be included in La Société Jersiaise's 2024 introduction to their website of digitised copies of 25 titles which made their appearance in the 19th century
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