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Title: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Friday 02 October 09 19:48 BST (UK)
Is anyone related to this gentleman, born 1 May 1733 and died aged 95?

I have a commonplace book written by him in 1824 which contains several pages of genealogical information, and also several loose sheets of paper in later hands which partially updates it to the 1920s. I would be happy to make this information available to any relatives.

I am not myself related to him, I found this book in a Brighton bookshop some years ago.

Roger
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: irret on Friday 02 October 09 22:04 BST (UK)
Hi,
How very interesting and exciting for someone. The nearest I can get is a Jean LE Geyt
Born    abt 1565 St Helier, Channel Islands, Jersey, Channel Islands on Ancestry One World Tree- looks like there are six people researching that name though not too sure as I don't fully understand how it works. Hope this is of some help. It would be so good to get it into hands of someone that it would really mean someting.  ;D
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Saturday 03 October 09 09:45 BST (UK)
Yes, he was an interesting character. Quite a lot of information on Google under "Charles William Le Geyt" (with quotes)

Roger
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Hill on Saturday 03 October 09 10:54 BST (UK)
Hi Roger

There also appears to be quite a number of records held at the Jersey Archive on CWLeG.

I'll make some enquiries next week and see if anyone is researching him.

Stewart
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Saturday 03 October 09 13:38 BST (UK)
Hi Stewart,

Thank you for your interest, and your help in finding someone from the family who is researching its history.

Roger
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Saturday 03 October 09 16:16 BST (UK)
I have now discovered from Google Books that the Gentleman's Magazine for 1827 has an obituary for Capt LeGeyt, and that he died 12 March 1827 at St Helier in Jersey. The article is a column and a half, and very informative about his life.

It quotes his birthdate as 12 May 1733, but this discrepancy is because he was born before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. He mentions this in his commonplace book, and relates that his birth date was "Old May Day".
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: hermes1 on Tuesday 03 November 09 13:42 GMT (UK)
Dear Roger,

Stewart Hill has just notified me of your ownership of the Commonplace Book.  He is now volunteering at the Lord Coutanche Library in Jersey where we hold a collection of local history and genealogical information for members of our Society and the general public. 

We have had queries on this Le Geyt gentleman before and it would be a real bonus if the commonplace book could be added to our existing collection.  Also we are aware that a gentleman called Guy Dixon is in the process of writing a genealogical book on the Le Geyt family, and obviously if the book were amongst our collection we would alert him to the fact. 

We are a registered charity and our website is www.societe-jersiaise.org

I look forward to hearing from you. 
Anna
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Tuesday 03 November 09 15:38 GMT (UK)
Dear Anna,

I am reluctant at this stage to part with the book itself ( though I fully realise it should rightly be in the possession of a society such as yours), my reason being that the information about the Le Geyt family is only a small part of the content, and the remainder is very much of interest to me.

However, I have photographed or scanned the parts relating to the family, and created from them a .pdf file of the pages containing reference and also the various loose pieces of paper which came with the book. If you send me by personal message an email address to which I can send attachments, I will gladly send this .pdf file in the first instance. In creating the file the images have somewhat lost resolution, but I could also send the original.jpg images separately, which are much clearer.

I don't think there should be any copyright issues with this, as a note in the book records that Hesketh Hubbard, President of the R.I.B.A., bought it in Hastings in 1943, so it must be reasonable to suppose that the various notes were written before then.

Please thank Stewart Hill for me if he is still with you :)

Best wishes

Roger
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Hill on Tuesday 03 November 09 18:11 GMT (UK)
Hi Roger

Anna hasn't posted enough posts yet to allow her to send PM's. I'll send you one with her email address.

Stewart
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Tuesday 03 November 09 18:30 GMT (UK)
Hi Stewart,

Thanks for that

Roger
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: asteeds on Friday 22 January 10 15:41 GMT (UK)
Hi

I am interested in this person for a different reason. His daughter married O'Connel a Govenor and gave silver to our family. It has a crest and we dont know which family it came from. I would like to find out and there may be other notes related to our family. By the way she died without issue.

Regards

Sharon Tiede
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Friday 22 January 10 17:35 GMT (UK)
Hi Sharon,

Capt. LeGeyt seems not to have mentioned his family coat of arms in his commonplace book. No doubt he would have known all about his family coat of arms, and would not have found anything new to record in the book. He did put a lot of genealogical information, but this of course would have been different, as it was changing in the course of his 92 years of age (at the time he was writing in his book).

However, if you contact the Societé Jersiaise at the link given by Hermes1 in the seventh post on this thread, she will probably be able to help you, as she kindly sent me a lot of information.

This included a description of the arms born by Vice-Admiral George Le Geyt, from which one can deduce that the  Le Geyt arms were Ermine, a lion rampant gules, with a crest A lions head couped proper.

This is a different branch of the family (as far as I can work out, the Admiral was first cousin once removed from Capt. LeGeyt whose book I have). It might give you a clue about the silver, though!

Roger

Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Ringrose on Thursday 10 February 11 12:33 GMT (UK)
I have just discovered a Jeanette Le Geyt who would be my direct line . She married a Philippe Le Cronier  around 1750ish. I have no idea what her ancestry is but do wonder if she is in the book.
Ringrose
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Thursday 10 February 11 14:34 GMT (UK)
Hi Ringrose,

I attach a RootsMagic descent from John LeGeyt, according to Capt. LeGeyt's account in his commonplace book, in so far as I have been able to interpret what Capt. LeGeyt had written, and supplemented with other information which came to hand, However, I have not seriously tried to verify any of this and would advise caution. The captain did not give very much in dates, but we must remember that he was in his 92nd year at the time.

The name Jeanette, as distinct from Jeanne, does not seem to appear, nor does the name Le Cronier, but perhaps you may find it interesting, and perhaps a link somewhere.

However, there seem to have been a lot of LeGeyts in Jersey.

See attachment




 


Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Ringrose on Thursday 10 February 11 15:12 GMT (UK)
Thank you so much for the  Geyt tree.I expect they Are like a lot of Jersey families with lots of branches .I found this out when looking at the book on the Le Quesne family trees.I've only one name so far so it is early days.
Ringrose
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Thursday 10 February 11 18:44 GMT (UK)
Hi ringrose,

 I forgot to mention that anything in square brackets in the .pdf file is NOT from Capt, LeGeyt's book, but from other sources. Sorry about that.

Roger
Title: Re: Capt. Charles William LeGeyt
Post by: legeytnation on Tuesday 01 August 17 09:14 BST (UK)
Hello Roger

I only recently came across your post regarding Captain Charles Le Geyt's book which sounds very interesting indeed.  I would love to receive any information you have about it and on the family Le Geyt generally.

I have a copy of a book written by my great-great grandfather John Terry.  One of his sons married into the Le Geyt family - and so it is through my mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother that I descend from the Le Geyt family.

My late mother conveyed to me how my late grandmother, who was born on Guernsey and grew up on Jersey, would speak about Captain Charles William and various other names and places on the Islands, as well as the strong connections with Kent and London, all of which factoids have been found to be true and accurate.  In fact, the origins of the Terry family go back to before the Confessor.

I wonder, did you and I meet many years ago?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards


Heather