On this day 26th June 1885 (126 years ago), my great grandfather Pierre Marie Jean Baptiste Gosselin was born in…
Henry Rabet marries Florence Gallienne
On this day 23rd June 1924 my great grandparents Henry Yves Rabet and Florence Anna Gallienne were married in the…
Liberation Day
On the 9th May 1945 members of my family living in Jersey, Channel Islands, experienced something I have been fortunate…
Muratti Final 1933
Seventy eight years ago today, on the 20th April 1933 my great grandmother Florence Anna Gallienne (sitting at the top)…
Mystery person in photo is identified – photo 4
Yesterday a reader identified the person in the photo below from my selection of photos on my Mystery people &…
W. Davey on the SS Stella
On this day, 30th March in 1899, the passenger ferry SS Stella sank within minutes of crashing into rocks on…
Hunting for the Jersey Herdsman
In a previous post I wrote about Another Ancestor in Australia. I had come across in a record for the…
Who is Francois Demoy?
I have mentioned only once before a Francois Demoy. He is living as a ‘boarder’ with my great great grandparents…
Jersey children learn about Census in school
I have just come across this piece of information from the http://www.jerseyweekly.com about children in St. Martins School, Jersey having…
Another ancestor in Australia
I have been back to Jersey for the Christmas holidays, partly to see family and friends I hadn’t seen for…
My Channel Island Ancestry 