What's New?

This page lists all new pages added to the site since 1 January 2023, and significant changes to existing pages.

It takes time to add links to this page but a determined effort is being made in 2023 to list all new pages, including the many house profiles being added, and also to highlight important changes to existing family trees.

We have deleted the 2022 content from this page to provide quick access to the most recent changes to the site

2 January 2023

• Glencoe: A profile of a St Lawrence property famous for its weekly auctions
• Hampton Villa, St Lawrence: Another property profile
• Descendants of Elie Le Cornu: New branch added to family tree

and catching up with some additions in the last days of 2022, three new family trees

• Descendants of Philipot Blampied
• Descendants of Laurens Luce‎
• Descendants of Edouard Baudains and Judith Bisson‎

4 January

• Beechlands: A profile of a historic property in St Lawrence

5 January

More profiles of historic houses

• Dunedin Farm, St Lawrence

6 January

Four new family trees for the Dorey families in three parishes

• Descendants of Thomas Dorey of St Helier
• Descendants of Jean Dorey of St Saviour
• Descendants of Helier Dorey
• Descendants of Jean Dorey of Trinity

9 January

• Descendants of Nicolas de la Cour: A new branch in a St Lawrence family tree

Profiles of historic properties

• Stirling Castle

New pictures added to these profiles of 'superhomes' on sale for £ millions in 2023

• Le Mottais Farm
• Waverley Farm
• Le Catel‎
• L'Aiguillon‎
• La Rocquaise‎
• Les Arbres
• Fosse a l'Ecrivain
• Highcliff
• Maison du Coin
• Le Vivier
• Les Cateaux
• St Peter's House

10 January

• Descendants of Francois and Marie Le Sueur: New family tree

Historic property profiles

• Elmdale, St Lawrence. Formerly a guesthouse and private hotel
• Grey Gables, St Brelade. An Edwardian mansion on sale for £10 million
• Haute Vue, Trinity. A farm converted to seven residential units
• Kandahar, St Brelade
• La Bourdonnerie, St Clement
• Archirondel Cottage, St Martin. A seaside cottage owned by the States for 130 years

12 January

Historic property profiles

• La Preference Cottage, St Martin: A property now demolished, which has left behind a puzzling datestone
• La Maitrerie, St Martin: A former farm with 16th century origins
• Langley House, St Saviour: A 1730s house with earlier origins
• Veslet Lodge, St Lawrence: a £6 million property
• Les Chasses, Mont Cochon, St Lawrence

13 January

• Descendants of Jean Romeril and Marie Venement: A new tree for a branch of the family which moved from Grouville to St John

Historic property profiles

• Le Catel, St John
• Le Petit Catelet, St John
• La Vieille Demeuthe, St Lawrence
• Le Pre Cottage, St Martin
• Le Senechal, Grouville
• Les Marais Farm, St Mary
• Bramerton House, St Helier

14 January

Historic property profiles

• Waterloo House, St Lawrence
• Les Hetres, St Peter
• Neuilly Farm, St Martin, with converted outbuildings

15 January

Historic property profiles

• St Clair (East), two neighbouring properties in St Lawrence both called St Clair ...
• St Clair (West), ... we have added east and west to distinguish them ...
• St Clair Farm ... and another neighbour

16 January

• Neville Renouf's Occupation memories: Childhood recollections of the Occupation years

Historic property profiles

• The Limes, Fern Valley, St Helier
• Little Grove, St Lawrence
• Midlands Farm, St Lawrence
• Maufant Farm, St Saviour
• Les Petites Issues, St John

17 January

Historic property profiles

• Merman Cottage, Beaumont. Said to have been owned by Lillie Langtry
• Montrose, St Peter
• L'Etage, Sandybrook, St Lawrence
• Stirling Castle Farm, St Helier

18 January

Historic property profiles

• Petit Vallon, St Ouen
• Sion Villa, St Clement
• St Cyr, St John. A farm with the island's best known lavoir

Histories of town properties

• No 12 Queen Street
• No 14 Queen Street
• No 16 Queen Street
• No 18 Queen Street
• No 20 Queen Street
• No 22 Queen Street
• No 24 Queen Street

19 January

Histories of town properties

• No 26-30 Queen Street
• No 32 Queen Street
• No 34 Queen Street

These complete the profiles of Queen Street properties

19 January

Histories of town properties

• No 1-3 Library Place
• No 2-10 Library Place

21 January

Histories of town properties

• No 5 Library Place, home to Jersey's, and perhaps the British Isles', first public library
• St Saviour's Crescent
• No 7 Library Place
• No 9-13 Library Place
• No 16 Library Place

23 January

Histories of town properties

• No 2 Mulcaster Street
• Hotel de l'Europe, the history of 5 Mulcaster Street, formerly the Hotel de l'Europe, now Chambers nightspot
• No 14 Mulcaster Street, the former Star Hotel
• No 15 Mulcaster Street
• No 16 Mulcaster Street
• No 17 Mulcaster Street
• No 18 Mulcaster Street: Formerly the Sussex Hotel, now a nightclub

25 January

New histories of town streets

• Mulcaster Street
• Library Place

• Uplands: and a St Helier farm which became a hotel

26 January

• Strathmore, St Helier: A distinctive town house run as a care home for young people ...
• Descendants of Jean Le Blancq and Esther Renouf ... and a new tree tracing the ancestry of the family living there in 1941

29 January

• La Chasse, St John: Profile of a much extended small country house

2 February

• Pictures of the Town Mill

5 February

• L'Etacquerel Fort: The history of a north coast defensive structure now run as a holiday let
• Maple Grove, another new historic house profile

6 February

• Clos de Coleron: A 1960s house in St Brelade's Bay

9 February

• Beresford Street: A new history of one of the town's main shopping streets

And profiles of some of its historic buildings

• 1-3 Beresford Street
• 4 Beresford Street
• 5-6 Beresford Street

10 February

• No 7 Beresford Street
• No 8 Beresford Street
• No 9 Beresford Street

12 February

• No 10 Beresford Street
• No 11 Beresford Street

14 February

• Nos 12-14 Beresford Street
• No 13 Beresford Street

15 February

• No 15 Beresford Street
• No 16 Beresford Street

More to come...

16 February

• No 17 Beresford Street
• Descendants of Guillaume Asplet: Additions and corrections to the family tree of the Asplet family who were in business at No 17 Beresford Street through the second half of the 19th century
• Nos 17½-19 Beresford Street
• No 18 Beresford Street, once the Beresford Library

17 February

• No 21 Beresford Street

19 February

• David de Quetteville: A biography of a successful 18th century merchant and holder of public offices
• A new page of aerial photographs of Jersey in the 1960s and '70s ...

20 February

• ... and more aerial photographs from the 1980s and '90s

21 February

• No 22 Beresford Street
• No 23-25 Beresford Street

22 February

• No 24 Beresford Street
• No 26 Beresford Street
• No 27 Beresford Street

This completes our set of profiles of historic properties in Beresford Street

24 February

• Minden Place, an expanded history of a town street

5 March

• 1944 Bailiff's report: An island heading for starvation

6 April

• Descendants of Philippe Hamon and Jeanne Nicolle

11 April

• Descendants of Nicolas Mauger

12 April

• World War Two casualties - the Digital Roll of Honour

14 April

• Four friends drown in escape attempt| An Occupation story

15 April

• Descendants of Nicolas Poingdestre

16 April

• Descendants of John A'Court: New 14 generation tree, Somerset to Jersey

18 April

• Descendants of Robert Beer

19 April

• Descendants of Jean Berteau

22 April 2023

• Descendants of Alain Le Jehan

28 April

• New baptism and marriage indexes We have added page images of baptism and marriage indexes for all parishes as far as they are available. For many parishes this is up to 2002, and for most others to 1988. Follow this link to our main Family records page and then choose the parish which interests you. New listings are marked as added in 2023

18 May

• Investment bonds - are these genuine?:A late 19th century investment scheme - did it actually exist?

19 May

• Descendants of Jean Gruchy and Elizabeth Esthur

5 June

• Descendants of Jean Pirouet - 3

29 July

• La_Hougue_Bie_timeline

1 August

• Descendants of Elie Gallichan

7 August

• Descendants of Edward Bennett

20 August

• Great War heroes honoured back home - Town Hall presentations to bravery award winners in 1916-1919

3 September

• Fine dining in 1958 - images of the Lobster Pot restaurant from a promotion film

16 September

• Capt Henry Pennison and the ''Satellite'' - the story of an ill-fated vessel and its ill-fated master

20 September

Two new family trees added by Guy Dixon

• Descendants of Jean Asplet and Susanne Pepin
• Descendants of Guillaume Nicolle (1480)‎

16 October

• No 3 Bath Street, history of a 19th century town building

25 October

More histories of Bath Street commercial premises

• No 4 Bath Street
• No 6 Bath Street
• No 8 Bath Street
• No 9 Bath Street
• No 10 Bath Street
• No 12 Bath Street: The Soleil Levant public house

26 October

• No 11 Bath Street
• Nos 19-21 Bath Street

27 October

• No 36 Bath Street
• No 40 Bath Street
• No 42 Bath Street
• No 43 Bath Street
• No 45 Bath Street

29 October

• No 51 Bath Street
• No 72 Bath Street
• No 74 Bath Street

30 October

• No 75 Bath Street

1 November

• Descendants of Clement Romeril and Elizabeth Esnouf:New family tree

5 November

• No 19 Halkett Place
• No 28 Halkett Place
• No 32 Halkett Place
• No 37 Halkett Place
• No 39 Halkett Place
• No 41 Halkett Place

10 November

• No 43 Halkett Place

26 November

• The story of the opening of Jersey's first railway

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