The 19th century in newspaper cuttings 1910

19th century Jersey
From Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey: 1808

Mourant's Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1808

Our history of 19th century Jersey from newspaper cuttings started with the Jersey Loyalist, an English-language newspaper published from 1825 to 1831. We have now moved back to the start of the century, with Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey, the first newspaper to be published in the island in the 1800s, and to appear intermittently in the following years published by different individuals

This was the dawn of an age of great growth and diversification in Jersey, fuelled by an influx of English immigrants over the following 25 years.

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.
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This page links to separate pages giving year by year coverage from 1800 onwards in the publications active at the time

The life of the earliest 19th century newspapers in Jersey is difficult to follow. At one time, at least, there were two active publications named Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey. There are also periods when either the publication of the title was suspended, or it continued but editions are missing from the collection of La Société Jersiaise, which was digitised and placed in their website in 2024.

Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey was published from 5 July 1800, printed by G Angot and Philippe Mourant. But it soon vanished. Quite what happened after 1800 is uncertain, but the Societe collection has a very erratic set of editions. From 1910 onwards we have used John Stead's publication Gazette de Jersey and Weekly Advertiser and Philip Mourant's title, when available, plus the new Gazette de Cesaree to build as comprehensive a picture of local news as possible.