Guernsey

The Greffe, Royal Court, St Peter Port, Guernsey. the Royal Court House, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2NZ.

TEL 01481 725277.

Email mgreffier@ guernseyroyalcourt. gg.

Web www.guernseyroyalcourt.gg/ article/ 1654/ Greffe.

The Royal Court was established in the 13th cent. The Bailiff is its President. Guernsey's deliberative and legislative assembly, The States, meets here also, but administrative departments of The States are housed elsewhere.

The Greffe is the official archive repository of the Royal Court and The States. It also has other record office functions, being the registry of births, marriages and deaths, and a repository for private deposited papers.

List of Records in the Greffe, Guernsey, 2 v. (1969– 78); v. 3, Guernsey, The Royal Court (1983)

Greffe Records. The official court registers date from 1526 (mostly MS) with some earlier documents.

Greffe library. Official printed documents of the Court and the States, including Actes des Etats (1605–1845),1851, 8 v., and the earlier occasional Billets (agendas for States’ meetings and associated material); Recueil d'ordonnances de la Cour Royale (from 1533), 1852– ; Recueil des Ordres de Conseil (from 1803), 1903–.

Deposited collections. Deposited collections of MSS are numerous, and some include printed works. The papers of George Metivier (17890–1881), the poet and compiler of the Dictionnaire franconormand, 1870, the MS and slips of which are included, together with other printed papers, and a genealogical collection which includes printed pedigrees. Part of the collection of the family de Sausmarez, including important naval documents of the 17th cent. and later (the family library and some papers remain at Sausmarez Manor, St Martin's). A collection deposited by B. M. M. Gosselin-Lefebvre, mainly on the Carey family and the Fief de Blanchelande, formed by Admiral Nicholas Lefebvre (1803–84).

Guille- Allès Library, market Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1HB.

TEL 01481 720392.

Email ga@ library.gg.

Web www.library.gg.

*The Guille-Allès Library was until 1981 a subscription library. Owned by a trust, it is funded by the States of Guernsey at a level to provide a free library service to the people of Guernsey. The founding collection is the library of Thomas Guille (1817–96), donated to the people of St Peter Port in 1856 and supplemented in 1869.