Eda was an only child, and born in Guernsey. Her father was the postmaster of Guernsey. She grew up speaking Guernsey patois and english, but went somewhere in France to learn “Parisian France”. She also went to England, Rotherham, in Kent to learn to be a teacher, where she was a teacher in the 1911 […]
Category: Le Messurier – Eda 1885-1976
Granddad – William Stringer
William Stringer was a teacher from Lancashire. He moved to Guernsey where he met and married Eda Le Messurier. In Guernsey he was headmaster of a boys school, and Eda was headmistress of a nearby girls school. He came from Ashton under Lyne. They had two children, Margot and Desirée. Margot was born in 1914. […]
Memories of Great Gran – Alfred Thoume le Messurier
Alfred Thoume le Messurier was “great-gran” to Jean and Tiny. He had been the postmaster of Guernsey, like his father before him. His daughter Eda Le Messurier married an englishman, William Stringer, who had come to Guernsey to be the headmaster of the boys high school, and after a decade of marriage, they moved to […]
Letters to Margot Stringer in NZ from father William in Exeter
16/12/53 My dear Margot, Here is a line to wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Your mother is in normal form. The Le Messuriers are a long living family and though she is now 70 68 years of age her hair is just as it was when you last […]
Letter from Eda LeMessurier to Jean Lang re Tourtel family history
This post is a letter from Eda LeMessurier to Jean Lang (her granddaughter) describing the family history of some of their mutual ancestors, the Tourtels. In particular, Robert Tourtel (pictured), who was Eda LeMessurier’s uncle. The letters are transcribed below. TOURTEL Now we come to the country people, engaged mostly in agriculture, & later building […]
1941 Account of an escape from Guernsey sent to Eda Le Messurier
This is an undated account of an escape under fire from Guernsey across the Channel to England after WWII started. The account was copied by Eda Stringer, and contains her additional notes. Possibly escape was August 1941. It is not clear whether this whole transcript is written by the same person, or whether it ‘morphs’ […]
Letter 1940 June Evacuation of Guernsey – Edwin Le Messurier – Eda Le Messurier
Note from Eda Stringer at top of letter: Holme View, Aglionby, Carlisle 15.7.40 Failure to evacuate more completely must have been due, as he says, to the Guernsey authorities. It looks as if they had not asked for sufficient boats, so I don’t think the Cabinet can be blamed! Father had been told, you remember, that […]
Letter 1940 June (2) Evacuation of Guernsey – Eda Le Messurier – Margot Stringer
Monday Dear Margot Here is a link to the wikipedia article about the Guernsey evacuation. The latest news is that 2000 Germans (two thousand) landed in Guernsey alone. This comes from the Waymouths. Father was away during the whole of Sunday – 9 am to 7 pm – dealing with the children. Someone, he forgets […]
Letter 1940 June Evacuation of Guernsey – Eda Le Messurier – Margot Stringer
Note at top of letter: You know the two big posts at the gate, with the ramblers. Father pruned them severely this year, & they are perfectly gorgeous, huge clusters of blooms as big as your head – the clusters, not the blooms. Saturday. Dear Margot Here is a link to the wikipedia article about […]
Le Messurier family photos
Eda Le Messurier is pictured in the middle of her extended family. At the back, her aunts Agnes and Lou standing. Seated, her grandfather Nicholas, Eda herself and her grandmother Mary Ann Thoume. At their feet is her uncle Harold. Agnes and Lou were very skilled needle workers, and taught Eda many skills. […]