Guernsey, 1814-1914: Migration and Modernisation

✍ Scribed by Rose-Marie Crossan

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite 600 years of allegiance to the English Crown, a majority of Guernseymen still spoke the language and retained aspects of the culture of France, the Island's closest neighbour, but England's hereditary foe. However, by 1914 Guernsey had been transformed from an essentially francophone to anglophone community. In this first comprehensive academic study of nineteenth-century Guernsey, the author analyses this huge sea-change. She devotes particular attention to the role of migration in this transition, since Guernsey experienced both substantial outflows (to North America and the Antipodes), and substantial inflows (from Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Hampshire and Cornwall; the Irish province of Munster, and the French d?©partements of La Manche and Les C??tes-du-Nord). She investigates the various factors influencing the various migrant contingents, analyses their differing settlement patterns and their propensity to integrate and evaluates the less than welcoming reception they met with from insular poor law authorities. Overall, the book argues that while migration boosted the Anglicisation of the island, it must be viewed in the context of other causes and effects.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
......Page 6
LISTOF ILLUSTRATIONS
......Page 8
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 12
ABBREVIATIONS
......Page 14
MAPS
......Page 15
Introduction......Page 18
I. CONTEXT......Page 24
1. Constitution and Government......Page 26
2. Economy......Page 31
3. Population and Migration......Page 57
II. IMMIGRANTS......Page 82
4. Origins, Distribution and Composition of the Immigrant Cohort......Page 84
5. English and Irish Immigration......Page 103
6. Immigration from and via Other Channel Islands......Page 129
7. French Immigration......Page 139
8. Legal Status and Administrative Treatment of Strangers......Page 157
III. IMPACTS ON THE HOST COMMUNITY......Page 200
9. Migrant-Native Interactions: 1. Social and Political......Page 202
10. Migrant-Native Interactions: 2. Personal and Individual......Page 225
11. Changing Identities......Page 247
CONCLUSION
......Page 292
1. Occupational sectors ranked by the relative levels of participation in them by Bailiwick males, censuses 1851–1901......Page 296
2. Occupational sectors ranked by the relative levels of participation in them by Guernsey-based non-native males, censuses 1851–1901......Page 297
4. Non-natives as a percentage of country parish populations, 1841–1901......Page 298
5. Summarised extracts from St Peter Port Register of Persons Sent out of the Island......Page 299
6. St Peter Port Constables, 1814–1914......Page 301
7. Jurats, 1814–1914, with period of tenure......Page 303
BIBLIOGRAPHY
......Page 306
INDEX
......Page 328