Guernsey
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The pleasures of camping
The next two blogs are inspired by our last weekend away camping in Dorset. We were staying at a lovely secluded campsite near Corfe Castle. Now I don’t know whether Him up there has a sense of humour when he knows we’re just about to spend a few nights under canvas but just before we…
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Poignant Parallels – The Wanderlust of Islanders
Are you an islander full of wanderlust or are you just content to live on your island home? Are you living on an island watching planes go by and wondering where they are going to, imagining places the other side of the water or on mysterious distant shores? Do you hallucinate a Big Mac or dream of John…
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Curious Coincidences
It was while I was researching the historical background for Riduna and my parents continued to discover more information about our family tree that we experienced some strange coincidences. Curious but True – On one occasion my parents were visiting Guernsey. They had booked up through their local travel agent to stay at a small hotel in St Peter…
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More Guernsey Book Reviews – Memories of visits in Days Gone By
Four lovely little books I found in a second hand bookshop in St Peter Port are: Guernsey in Queen Victoria’s Regn and Guernsey Folklore I first picked up two in the series of ‘Guernsey Historical Monographs’ republished in 1986 from original texts in1847 & 1860. There is nothing better than to read history through the eyes…
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Books on Guernsey – Personal Reviews
I have picked up several little books on Guernsey’s history over the years and here I’ll share with you two which you may still be able to find. If not the The Guernsey Society Bookshop is an excellent place to search for more information: The Guernsey Society Bookshop And if you are interested in the…
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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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Researching for Riduna
The quest for research began in the summer of 1999. I spent some time in the Alderney Museum which was helpful and informative. At that time I was a primary teacher and so I also visited Aylesbury Library archives during my holidays and was let into the depths of the County Hall tower, where there…
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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,…