Guernsey

• The Priaulx Library web site includes a searchable catalogue.
• States of Guernsey Island Archives

• Published Guide: D.W. Le Poidevin - “Tracing Your Ancestors in Guernsey”(Taunton 1978). Now out of print and seriously out of date!
• John Fuller's Channel Islands Genealogy - includes many useful links and a surnames list of Channel Islands research interests.

• 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 decennial (1841 onwards) Census for England and Wales and can be found online, see the GENUKI ENG+WAL Census page.
• 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

St Peter Port: Later Parishes

Other Miscellaneous Registers

Country Parishes

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 Description of Guernsey from Grose's The Antiquities of England and Wales, published in 1777

(see also Court Records and Land and Property)

• 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 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

• Historical Description of Guernsey from Grose's The Antiquities of England and Wales, published in 1777
• Published Guide: James Marr's “A History of the Bailiwick of Guernsey”(Phillimore 1982)
• Guernsey Museum and Galleries

(see also Dwellings and Court Records)

• 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 French

• Google 'Map of Guernsey'
• Old 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.

• Stephen Foote's Guernsey Crew Lists Index

• GuernseyWeekly Press Internet Edition Guernsey Press Online

• Stephen Foote's History of Guernsey Butchers Freddie Cohen's Makers and Dealers of Channel Islands Silver and Their Marks. Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
• 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.

• States of Guernsey: The Official Guernsey Government Website

• 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.
• La Société Guernsiaise (which includes the Family History Section)
• The Guernsey Society
• The Channel Islands Occupation Society (Guernsey Branch)