What's New?

This page lists all new pages added to the site from 1 August 2024, and significant changes to existing pages.

2024

1 August

• Descendants of Philippe Gruchy and Jeanne Amy: A new five-generation tree for the Gruchy family of La Planque, Rozel, Trinity

2 August

• Chronique de Jersey adverts: Addition of a large number of newspaper adverts from the early 19th century onwards

3 August

• Philip Ouless‎: Addition of drawings from his Continental holidays

5 August

• Descendants of Jean Poingdestre and Rachel l'Isle‎: Major review, with addition of children's names in several generations

21 August

• Jersey 100 years ago from the Chronique de Jersey
• Jersey 150 years ago from the Chronique de Jersey
• Descendants of Nicolas Le Gresley (1540-1609): 12 generation St Ouen family tree

22 August

• Descendants of Jean Mauger and Catherine Baudains

30 August

• Descendants of Raulin Le Marquand: Tree expanded to include former St Peter Constable, W P Le Marquand

2 September

• Descendants of Pierre Le Gros and Catherine Denize: A completely revised tree from the top down

5 September

• Descendants of Benest Le Brocq (1480) New eight-generation branch added

10 September

• Stills from a film of Jersey in the 1960s

25 September

• The story of Philip Gosset - disgraced banker

6 October

• Hill Side, St Brelade. Profile of a Victorian farm
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1825
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1826
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1827

13 October

• St George's School

14-31 October

• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1828
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1829
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1830
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Loyalist 1831
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1800
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1803
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1804
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1805
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1806
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1807
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Gazette 1808
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - Various sources - 1809
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings - various sources - 1810

• Lists of participants in road construction

2 November

• Descendants of Jacques Guillaume

9 November

• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings 1811
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings 1812
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings 1813
• The 19th century in newspaper cuttings 1814

24 November

• Letters from Army administrator: A personal view of the Liberation by a senior Army officer

25 November

• A 1946 picture set

29 November

• Descendants of Oliver Allen

• A review of Family pages and their trees was started

14 December

• Admiral Sir Thomas Le Hardy: Biography of a Jersey-born senior Royal Navy officer

15 December

• Manorial System

16 December

Two articles on Charles I's money problems while in Jersey

• The money problems of Charles, Prince of Wales: On his first visit to Jersey in 1646
• Sale of Crown lands: On his second visit in 1649

• The watermills of Trinity

21 December

• Descendants of Robert Cuming
• Fern Valley, St Mary - a new house profile

2025

9 January

• Appledore: A new profile of a Grouville property
• Bethel_House: A St Ouen property

11 January

• Zelzah_House: An early 20th century school at First Tower
• Temple_Villa: Profile of a St John property

12 January

• Pallot and Sayers family album: a 100-year-old album of family photographs

16 January

• Descendants of Jean Le Gros - 4: A new family tree for a branch not previously covered

21 January

• 1613 Trinity Census: A 17th century head count of Trinity residents
• La Hougue Bie history: More a lot of guesswork than a real history of Jersey's neolithic mound in this 1883 article

22 January

• 1617 St Saviour militia muster

23 January

• Laurence Adolphus Bisson short biography of a university professor

27 January

• Descendants of Benjamin Burton, new family tree

28 January

New biographies:

• George Philip Billot: Senator and Jurat ...
• Godfray Philip Billot:... His Navy officer son

2 February

• Descendants of Jean Baptiste Coulomb: New family tree

3 February

• Touzel John Bree: New biography

11 February

• Descendants of Jean Esnouf: New family tree

13 February

• Cider making in Jersey: A Jersey Heritage article
• The Brighton Road tragedy:A new story in our Crime and Punishment section, recording the 1894 murder of a young Jersey mother
• The 1769 Corn Riots: Jersey's 'revolution'

18 February

• Descendants of Mathieu Fauvel: New family tree

19 February

• The Viking era onwards: A Jersey Heritage historical article

21 February

• A history of the German Occupation

13 April

• St John’s School - more pictures and a Jersey Heritage presentation article

26 April

• St Martin’s School - more pictures and a Jersey Heritage presentation article

28 April

• A 2015 exhibition took a look back at Occupation food

24 May

• Oak View: A new profile of this St Mary property

4 June

• St Luke’s School: A new history

6 June

Two new St Lawrence house profiles

• La Fontaine Farm, St Lawrence
• La Solitude

14 June

• Removal of German weapons and ammunition: A picture diary of post-Liberation work by the British Army

17 June

A complete review of our extensive collection of pictures of German defensive installations in World War Two, including a number of new pages for important locations

• Corbiere
• Noirmont
• St Aubin's Bay
• Plemont
• Batterie Moltke, Les Landes
• St Ouen's Bay

24 June

• Descendants of Francois Morin: A 9-generation family tree France-Jersey

25 June

Two more trees with French immigrants

• Descendants of Jacques Morin
• Descendants of Louis Morin

26 June

• Descendants of Nicolas Esnouf
• Descendants of Henry Morris

7 July

• Descendants of Jean Pierre Tanguy
• Descendants of Raffray Tanguy
• Alberta: The worst crossing

• Our review of Family pages and their trees has now been completed: A-Z

3 August

• Descendants of Elie Huelin 2: A new St Peter family tree

21 September

• Pre-war Havre des Pas Pool pictures ...
• ... and another album from the 1920s
• Ladies' poolside fashions in the 1920s and '30s

25 October

• St Clement’s School: A new article on the history of the school

2 November

Two articles from the 2021 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise

• Mediaeval farming and placenames
• Census

5 November

More articles from the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise

• Life at sea, 2022 article on Jersey's maritime fleet in the 19th century
• Jean Martel, The Jerseyman who founded the renowned cognac business

6 November

• Lillie Langtry, a new biography from the Jersey Heritage website
• Caroline Trachy, pioneer of votes for women
• Le Chien de Bouley, a Trinity legend

7 November

• Occupation and deportation, a personal wartime story

14 November

• Prospero, a Jersey-built and owned vessel which sailed 2,000 miles up the Amazon in 1864

15 November

• A Jersey Heritage history of surfing in Jersey
• Florence Puddicombe, Jersey-born Army nurse

18 November

• St Helier commercial architecture
• The third part of Jersey soldier Clarence Ahier's Great War diary

19 November

• Philip Falle: Priest, scholar, musician, benefactor, a biography from the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise
• Is there a Sheela-na-Gig in St Saviour's Church?, from the 2019 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise
• Dorothea Weber and Hedwig Bercu, an Occupation story from the 2019 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise ...
• Occupation hiding ... and further articles on the same subject
• Another history of witch trials in Jersey from the Witchcraft page

21 November

• St Lawrence girl reconstruction - How the face of a girl who died centuries ago was rebuilt
• George Balleine's letters to his daughter - prewar and postwar letters between a clergyman and his daughter
• John Everett Millais and Jersey, an Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise article

22 November

Two articles from the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise on Stuart connections to Jersey

• Stuart connections - 1
• Stuart connections - 2

24 November

Two articles from the 2020 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise

• Peter Pain: Gunpowder maker
• Abbe Fleury: An exiled French clergyman's Jersey diary

25 November

More Annual Bulletin articles

• Channel Island castle keeps
• Prisoner of War camp: A detailed analysis of the Blanches Banques camp which housed German prisoners in the Great War
• Channel Island furniture
• Sous Les Bois, Trinity Information on a 17th century property

26 November

• A brief history of the German Occupation
• Buchenwald, the German concentration camp to which nine islanders were sent
• The Occupation starts another history of the start of the German Occupation of Jersey

1 December

• St Lawrence names from the 1788 'census'

2 December

• Jersey's relationship with 15th century King Edward IV

7 December

• Charles Robin, Gaspe pioneer, a paper based on the famous Jerseyman's diaries
• The Bichard family

9 December

• Edward and Mary Ann Queree to New Zealand
• Bigrel family history
• The Dart family
• Military graves in St Saviour's Cemetery

10 December

• The history of La Cotte: A new article on Jersey's neanderthal era cave
• A history of St John's Parish Church
• Occupation resistance and defiance

13 December

• Descendants of Pierre Lamy: A new family tree
• Godels of St Lawrence: A new family history

14 December

• Boudier family history
• Renault family history

New property profiles

• Bigrel Farm
• Cedar Farm
• Villa Bellevue

15 December

• Abraham John Bishop: Methodist pioneer

18 December

• Pommage: a history of cider in Jersey

19 December

• Guiton family history
• Hilgrove family history

21 December

• Thomas Le Quesne Blampied: States Veterinary Surgeon during the Occupation
• Philip Ernest Bree: Farmer, Methodist preacher and prominent politician

23 December

• Peter Carteret: American colonist

27 December

• Edgefield: A profile of a St Peter property

28 December

• Edmond de Laquaine: A prominent 20th century newspaper editor

30 December

• Edgar Aleck Dorey, Jurat and Magistrate

Articles from the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise

• The Duke of Wellington and the defence of the Channel Islands
• List of fiefs compiled by Thomas Le Maistre
• Henry Jermyn
• Societe Annual Bulletin

31 December

• La Carrellerie: New profile of a St Peter property

2026

More articles from the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise

1 January

• La Ferme Grandet archaeological study, 1999
• St Lawrence early Norman cemetery, 1998
• Hamptonne archaeological survey 3, 1996

2 January

• Arthur Mourant obituary. 1995
• Making the Occupation Tapestry, 1995
• Hamptonne archaeological survey 2, 1995
• Hamptonne archaeological survey 1, 1992

4 January

• Gold Torque
• Ecrehous priory

14 January

• German installations: Observation posts a page of photographs of German installations

15 January

• After the Liberation: The perils of the clear-up

17 January

• An American aircraft which crashed in St Ouen's Bay in 1944

18 January

• Frances Le Sueur obituary
• St Mary's Church pews
• Le Blanc Moulin, Queen's Valley, excavation
• The Great Storm of 1987
• A century of great storms

21 January

• Mont de la Ville_Dolmen
• La Sergente - a re-examination

23 January

• A chronological view of the growth of St Helier

24 January

• Education in Jersey 1770-1790

28 January

• Shipwrecks and other disasters: Timeline expanded

3 February

• Walter Duret Aubin

4 February

• Early drink driving case

5 February

• The ''Vivid'' and Jersey cutters

12 February

Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise articles

• Chateaubriand in Jersey
• The Great Tide
• St Simon's Church piscina

14 February

• Descendants of Philippe Vaudin

16 February

• St Cyr lavoir

17 February

• George de Gruchy's voyages: A log of a Jerseyman's voyages in the 1960s to 1880s

18 February

• Demi des Pas Hotel: a new page for pictures of this former seafront hotel

19 February

Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise articles

• La Rocque invasion
• St Martin's House cross
• Hougue Bie Museum
• Dielament Manor gates
• Proclamation of Charles II
• Moulin Desgouttespluye
• Effects of Occupation on health

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