Family History
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Guernsey- Holiday memories and family connections
My Great Grandfather was born on the island of Guernsey in 1867. He married my Great Grandmother Harriet Jane from Alderney in The Holy Trinity Church in 1890, before they moved to the mainland and settled in Woolston, Southampton. He returned to the island years later and unfortunately died there during the occupation years in…
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Family History
Here is the true story of Harriet Hopkins my greatgrandmother, in a nutshell, as far as we have been able to piece together. Harriet was born on Alderney to Jane Quesnel Renier the daughter of Elizabeth Quesnel Renier and John Hopkins a sea captain from London, in 1871. A few years after Elizabeth’s first husband,…