Property name
Brook Farm
Location
Mont Nicolle, St Brelade
Type of property
Farmstead
Valuations
It is not known whether all or part of the property was involved, but Brook Farm was sold for £1 million in 2006 and £1.365 million in 2009
Families associated with the property
- Le Bas: Emma Eliza Le Bas was living here when her will was registered in 1929
- Marett
- Pipon: The 1901 census shows John George Pipon (1858- ), a cooper, and his wife, Eliza Ann, nee Guillaume [1] (1866- ) living here with their children Jane Emily (1889- ), John Villeneuve (1890- ), Louisa Therese (1892- ), Mabel Ann (1893- ), Charles Le Breton (1894- ), Maud Louisa (1895- ) and Reginald Marett (1897- ). Also in the household were John George's widowed mother Mary Ann, nee Michel (1817- ), and his sister Elizabeth Mary (1844- ) a dressmaker
Datestones
HMR AVN 1764 - For St Brelade Centenier Henry Marett and Anne Villeneuve, daughter of Jean and Elizabeth, nee Vincent. Their son Jacques (1773- ) sold the farm to his cousin Edouard Pipon in 1800
HLB MMG 1731 - This stone has not been formally identified, but a good fit would be Hugh Le Brun, of St Brelade, and Marie Mauger, who married in the parish in 1731. The Le Brun family is, however, not known to have had an association with the property
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Old Jersey Houses
A brief article in Volume 2, wrongly shown in the index as St Peter, refers to the Marett datestone and notes that Henry Marett ( -1743) appears in contracts of 1704-08 concerning the placing of boundary stones to marke the limits of the St Peter perquage which passed his land
Notes and references
- ↑ Shown as Eliza Ann in the census but Eliza Maria in her marriage record
The cottage, which is now a self-catering let
