Guernsey
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How our Family History was Researched
A comment on my last post from my niece prompted me describe how our family history search was carried out, predominantly by our parents. Firstly it was started in the days before internet searches. Research on Alderney Dad wrote down all he knew of his Grandmother Harriet Jane, alongside lots of questions and we headed…
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Arthur Walter Jackson and Daisy Clara Colmer 1897-1981
My grandpa Arthur Jackson was born on 30th November 1896 on the island of Guernsey. Here he is on the 1901 Guernsey census at the age of four, just before the family moved to Wooston Southampton. The reason for the move was that work had literally dried up for his father, who was a painter…
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Harriet and Thomas Jackson ~1870’s to 1890’s
Renier ~ Quesnel ~ Hopkins ~ Jackson Harriet, my great grandmother was brought up by her grandparents having been orphaned at the age of eight. When she was about fifteen she became too much to handle (Elizabeth ((Renier/Quesnel)) and John Taylor) and was sent to an aunt’s on the island of Guernsey. Her story fascinated…
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Being Compared to a Best Seller ~ A Double Edged Sword
In the last few months I’ve joined The Sarnia literacy Society on Facebook and have enjoyed talking about such books as Ebenezer le Page, a delightful story written like memoirs of an elderly gentleman and his life on Guernsey. Apart from getting lost occasionally in a plethora of friends and relations, I found the book…