Pam,
Thank you very very much for the work which you performed on the census extracts - much more than expected, in both scope and content.
You are a star!
I take it from your comments that you actually transcribed the information manually from online images.
[So your effort is even more impressive!]
Is this facility freely available to all?
[I'd like to sort out a few apparent inconsistencies:
e.g.
MD reported as "born SPP" in 1841 (but "born E" in 1851 & after)?
MD aged 46 in both 1851 & 1861?
No relationship stated between MD & WW in 1851?
(It should be aunt/nephew.) ]
I was greatly amused by you finding the caretakers of the Royal Court.
I am currently engaged in translating legal contractual documents held in its repository - the Greffe - about the WHITTLE family. Learning that their surroundings were kept in good shape by a William WHITTLE later was a boon!
[I surmise, based on WW's stated ages in the census records,
that he is quite likely in fact to be the WW mariner (b. 1838)
who sailed aboard LACHEUR's ship the "America" in 1863,
now retired (and remarried to a local girl, after being widowed sadly).]
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Everyone (!),
My initial post is yet to be answered.
Hope that I can re-invigorate you to help me out.
I want confirmation of the three deaths recorded during 1856-1860.
William Laine WHITTLE (d.29-MAR-1856)
William Allez WHITTLE (d.24-NOV-1859)
William Digman WHITTLEY (d. 27-FEB-1860)
They don't appear to be in the Greffe registers.
[I fought my way up to the SOG in London at the weekend.
Not fun! (Stifling hot, tubes not running, equipment unfamiliar, ...)
They hold the LDS microfilms of the Guernsey death records 1841-1963.
MF3911 & MF3912 hold handwritten Index books.
MF3913 & MF3914 hold handwritten formatted records
from "Registre General des Morts dans l'Isle de Guernsey".
£30 poorer and 8 hours later I'd drawn a blank.]
I read elsewhere that the Greffe registers are incomplete in coverage.
[e.g. civil registration of marriages was not compulsory until 1919.]
So the sought death records may be in church or cemetery records.
A transcription of one of them, taken many years ago, states:
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Death Records from Brother's Cemetery/Strangers #729 list
William D. Whittley, age 42.
He died 27-OCT-1850.
(Other listing has death in 1860)
Born England.
Rec. by Martha Carey Oct. 31.
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We would really, really, really like to get its source and accurate content confirmed!
Does anyone have access to this (these?) lists?
[Don't know what the "other listing" was.]
I saw Mike DeCar's index to the Stranger's graveyard.
Ref:
http://www.genealogy.guernsey.net/Stranger.html .
However, a search there drew a blank.
[Think that it is only transcriptions of gravestones.]
I was encouraged by his note there stating that, from 1829, that particular cemetery was to be used for members of the garrison as well as for strangers.
However, I am now placing less emphasis on fort associations since it looks like the LAINE and ALLEZ surnames are definitely "of" the island.
I also discovered that the dates of each of the three deaths coincide exactly with the dates of registering at the Greffe of legal contracts associated with our known family's affairs.
There MUST be a connection with these three people!
Thanks once again,
John
