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Enquiry from the Belgian Ambassador relating to death duties in Jersey and England

Reference: A/D1/D5

Date: 13 December 1934 - 3 January 1935

Applicants with surnames beginning with the letters M and N - Eva Margaret Vibert Moon

Reference: B/A/L42/10/356

Date: 1943 - 1945

Request for the Bailiff's legal opinion re. an insurance claim against the Commercial Union Assurance Co.

Reference: B/A/W41/26

Date: 27 July 1943 - 13 August 1943

Request for medical supplies from the International Red Cross, and a relief ship to be sent from England Correspondence re. supply of potatoes for the troops, delivery of potatoes to Guernsey. See also W49/9

Reference: B/A/W45/40

Date: 13 May 1942 - 8 January 1945

Message Organisation - see also B/A/W49/5 for Guernsey's enquiries relating to the Message Organisation During the Occupation. Includes: Requests for facilities to be provided for personal news to be sent to England - September 1940. Extracts from the Jersey Evening Post as to how Jersey people may send messages to relatives in England. Sample form for enquiries. Suspension of sending of enquiries to the Field Command 515 - October 1940. Setting up of the Bailiff's Enquiry and News Office, 49 Halkett Place, St Helier - and subsequent reorganisations. Sketch of rubber stamp to send messages through the Red Cross. Enquiry from the Foreign Office in Berlin as to the whereabouts of Mrs Héléne de la Cote-Schaefer, Villa Sonnschein, Tabor Lane, St Brelade. Information from the International Red Cross that Mr J Leslie, Oxford Lodge, Oxford Road, St Helier, now of Val Plaisant's brother has died. Request from Catherine E Norfor, Kumasi, No 3, First Tower, St Helier that her will be sent to the Lunacy Law Reform Society. Monetary advances for the relatives of British Soldiers native to the Channel Islands - notes of a meeting between the Red Cross and the Department of Finance and Economics Summary of the St John's Ambulance Association Emergency Committee receipts and payments 09/09/1939 - 30/06/1944 List made by the Bailiff of Red Cross Messages sent and replies for December 1940 - December 1941, and January - June 1944

Reference: B/A/W49/1/1

Date: 20 September 1940 - 14 November 1944

Warning's in the newspaper of the penalties for those attempting to escape to England. Cites an example of three youths who attempted to escape to England in a motor-boat on May 3rd/4th.

Reference: B/A/W50/55

Date: 8 May 1942

Repatriation to England and Ireland

Reference: B/A/W82

Correspondence with Colonel Scott, Quand Même, Fauvic relating to the repatriation of elderly or ill British Subjects in Jersey to England

Reference: B/A/W82/1

Date: 24 March 1943 - 16 December 1944

Report on an organised tour of certain Ancient Monuments in England and Wales, undertaken by C.J.Such, Chief Architectural Assistant, States' Engineer's Department, arranged by the Ministry of Works. Gives details of the methods used by the Ministry of Works in the preservation of Ancient Monuments. Includes photographs of; Kenilworth Castle, Ewenny Priory, Caerphilly Castle, Beaupre Castle, Tretower Castle, Goodrich Castle, Carreg Cennen Castle, Raglan Castle, Ogmore Castle, Maison Dieu - Ospringe, St. Augustine's Abbey - Canterbury, and Deal Castle.

Reference: C/B/K/A/1

Date: 1 June 1953

Sound recording of Dora Horsfall, née Slade, speaking about the Occupation and the years after. She was interviewed on 27/01/2005 by Stuart Nicolle for the Liberation to Coronation Oral History Project. Mrs Horsfall speaks about the excitement on Liberation day, the arrival of the british soldiers, the germans making a sorry sight leaving the island, her husbands job grinding corn for rations during the occupation, the grain in the merchants store, reusing everything, the welsh girls staying at the Grand Hotel and working during the tomato season, her husbands going to England to sell the tomatoes and the competition between merchants, the return of the evacuee, the deportations, compare the fortification in Jersey with those in England, the battle of flower, the international road race and various entertainments on the island.

Reference: C/D/P/P1/43

Date: 27 January 2005

Sound recording of Marie Luscombe, née Assinder, speaking about the Occupation and the years after. She was interviewed on 23/11/2004 by Geraldine des Forges for the Liberation to Coronation Oral History Project. Mrs Luscombe speaks about the celebration at the Royal Square, the soldiers suprised at their conditions, the treatment of the jerrybags, the cleaning up, the arrival of supplies and the continuing rationing, the tourism and the impact on her fathers jewellery business, the changes in town and Jersey after the war, the entertainment after the war, her interest in mateur dramatics, seeing the royal wedding and the coronation on television, watching the international Road Race and the Battle of flowers, little difficulties in getting materials for her wedding, her honeymoon in Paris, visiting England and seeing bomb damages, the sympathy in England for the jersey occupation, and the welsh and breton farm workers.

Reference: C/D/P/P1/61

Date: 23 November 2004

Correspondence relating to the postal and telegraph service between England and the Channel Islands. Lodged au Greffe, printed by Le Lievre Brothers, States Printers.

Reference: D/AP/AD/7/38

Date: 10 October 1893

Last two pages of unidentified report relating to the probation system in England and Jersey (not dated)

Reference: D/AP/W/3

Date: 1960

Aliens registration card of George Edward Durman, born 14/08/1891 in England. Nationality: American

Reference: D/S/B1/881

Date: 25 July 1956

Aliens registration card of Wlliam Charles Jones, born 13/04/1863 in England. Nationality: American

Reference: D/S/B1/1531

Date: 16 December 1922

Testament of Maria Aynsley of England, now of St Helier. Dated 19/03/1869. Codicil added 29/04/1869. Bequeaths to Mary Ann Ramsden ½ of her Egyptian Bonds, the other ½ to Eliza Dickson and Anne Dickson.

Reference: D/Y/A/34/114

Date: 9 August 1869

Will and Testament of Emily Florian Walton, Glen Cottage, Rozel, St Martin. Dated 27 September 1935. Excludes all real estate situated in Jersey. Desires to be buried in St Martin's Cemetery. Details of bequests of property in England. Codicil added 23 May 1936

Reference: D/Y/A/99/37

Date: 27 June 1936

Will and Testament of Florence Anne Bass, La Rocque, High Street, St Aubins, spinster. Dated 26 May 1936. Bequeaths various portions of real estate situated in England. Codicil added 19 May 1937

Reference: D/Y/A/100/105

Date: 31 May 1937

Letters to William Forbes of Callendar & and Robert Forbes from John Abercrombie, Aberdeen (brother-in-law) on family matters. Enclosed letters from his sons: John in Holland variously in England & Jersey with the 85th Regiment position of assistant surgeon.

Reference: GD171/685

Date: 1799 - 1801

Constitution of Church in England

Reference: J/C/BD/C

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