Channel Islands
Shelf Mark: CI
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these Libaray resources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
Island-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-Z
Island wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Hampshire, Isle of Wight & Channel Islands parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: Society of Genealogists, 2000. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 15, part 1: Channel Islands & the Isle of Man. London: Society of Genealogists, 2000. [TB/PR 23] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Catholic missions & registers 1700-1880, vols. 1-6 & Catholic parishes in England, Wales & an atlas [RC/REG]
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at FamilySearch.org
Catholic missions & registers 1700-1880, vol. 1-6 & Catholic parishes in England, Wales & Scotland: an atlas [RC/REG]
CHANNEL ISLANDS (Walloon church of Southampton): C 1567-1779, M 1567-1753, D 1567-1722; includes professions of faith 1567-1665 & 1722 & register of Jeunes (fasti) 1569-1721: Huguenot Society publications quarto series, vol. 4 [HUG/PER]
Diocese of Portsmouth database 1989 parish registers [Roman Catholic churches only]. 2nd edn. [Shelf 9 (HA/REG)]
GUERNSEY: index to births, marriages & deaths taken in England of Guernsey people who left for safety during the 2nd World War 1940-45 [Microfilm] [Mf 3915]
GUERNSEY: index to births 1840-1966, [surnames] A-S & register of births 1840-1907 [Microfilm] [Mf 3896-3907]
GUERNSEY: index to marriages 1841-1966 & register of marriages 1840-1901 [Microfilm] [Mf 3908-3910]
GUERNSEY: index to deaths 1840-1963 & register of deaths 1840-1907 [Microfilm] [Mf 3912-3914]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Dorsetshire & Hampshire Quarterly Meeting: Z(I) 1638-1837 & 1664-95, M(I) 1658-1837 & 1665-1715, B(I) 1657-1837 & 1678-98 (includes Guernsey & Jersey) [Mf 3391]
Westminster Diocese Roman Catholic confirmations (1826-37) [RC/REG]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
War memorials in the Island of Jersey [CI/M 1]
In addition to free access from within the library to census indexes on various web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. St. Lawrence, Jersey 1788 list of parishioners and survey of The Vale, Guernsey, in 1821
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
Before 1858 if the deceased had property in England or Wales the will should have been proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
All original wills proved up to that time in the Court of Alderney were destroyed in World War II.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey included the islands of Alderney, Sark, Jethou and Herm. Wills leaving personal property and those of intestates in the Bailiwick were, and still are, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary Court of the Bishop of Winchester in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Wills leaving real estate in Guernsey only are in the jurisdiction of the Royal Court of Guernsey. Real estate on Herm and Jethou cannot be bequeathed since, until 1947 they belonged to the crown, Real estate on Sark must descend intact to the heir until the 5th degree of kinship after which the property reverts to the Seigneur.
Jersey probates were in the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical court of the Dean of Jersey until 25 May 1949.
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved at the Principle Probate Registry 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives.
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com (formerly 1837online)
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
Royal Court of Guernsey act books, vol. 1: 1666-98 & 1729-51, vol. 2: 1704-30 & vol. 3: 1730-37 [Microfilm] [Mf 624]
Sark | St. Helier | Torteval
