Extract from “Charles the Second in Jersey”

On the 18th of April three royal commissioners and a secretary, instruments of George Carteret's implacability, came to Jersey direct from Paris; not, as had been expected, from Oxford where the court then was. This fact, added to the circumstance that three out of the four were papists, and none of them the persons originally …

Engagement of James Bandinel to Margaret Dumaresq, 1628

Context Note: They married on 10th December 1628 at St Brelade, Jersey. " On July the 15th 1628 M. Jacques Bandinel became engaged to Marguerite Dumaresq daughter of the late Richard [Richard Dumaresq (1572-1628) who had died the month before] in the presence and with the consent of her mother [Mary (Lempriere) Dumaresq (1575-1642)], brothers …

Article on Margaret Dumaresq

MARGUERITE DUMARESQ One hears a great deal in Jersey History of famous women, e.g., Marguerite de Carteret of St. Ouen’s Manor, but the story of Marguerite Dumaresq, the wife of Henri Dumaresq, the son of the eccentric Daniel, has still to be told. She was the daughter of Abraham Herault, the Greffier of the Royal …