OLAC Record: Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929940

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Title: 2013-06-04_EB01_RD01

0116-20130802 - 2013-06-04_EB01_RD01

Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Contributor: Enid Batiste

Roland Duquemin

Contributor (consultant): Enid Batiste

Roland Duquemin

Contributor (recorder): Jan (Yan) Marquis

Date: 2013-06-04

Description: EB01 talks about: where she lived/lives, playing in fields as children; different schools that she attended; her father being a pastor; moving house to town during the Occupation, unhappy experience at Vauvert school; her sister going into service, first near Candie, then for the priest of St. Joseph’s Catholic church; her older sister having a baby; other sister having a bike accident involving a German cycling into her in the Green Lanes and having to in the Country (Castel) hospital, dying there (17 years old); her nephew (the baby) visiting Guernsey for his, and wife’s seventieth birthdays; living at St. Jacques and travelling by horse and trap to St. Saviour’s then onto St. Peter’s for funeral (EB01 was 11 years old); moving to St. Peter’s (Le Douit d’Israel), basic state of house, one tap, no electric, outside non flushing toilet; red cross parcels; running out of food; her father growing potatoes during the Occupation, hiding them from the Germans; people who speak Guernesiais, a friend from Chapel who couldn’t speak English well; niece who understands Guernesiais, but replies in English; granddaughter reciting in Eisteddfod; sketch that she took part in for Guernsey French Eisteddfod in which she was Grandmother (deaf), the other person granddaughter; having to practise sketch on telephone as other person had bad leg and couldn’t drive, laughing a lot when practising; travelling by horse and cart, horse having flatulence; uncle visiting one Christmas with wine (during Occupation); shaking the bottle whilst opening it, wine went everywhere, over clock; grandmother being evacuated, house all left abandoned, father collecting a gramophone and she was always left turning the handle; changes to life after the Occupation; school during the Occupation, being taught German and copying another pupil’s work as not being able to write German; going by tractor to town for the Liberation; going to Town on bike at the Liberation with father. RD01 talks about: only speaking Guernesiais (G) when he was a child; German Occupation, going to school; childhood memories of being treated well by the Germans; an officer taking the good room of his parents new (built 1938 ??) bungalow at La Rue des Crabbes, not being a nice man, a Nazi, and he did not like RD01, but really liked his younger sister, a friend being reprimanded by officer for watching him clean his pistol (called him a Jew); officer on return from holiday brought a gift for sister, but not for him, mother would tell officer off; his father growing food in greenhouses during the Occupation, last year of which was difficult as supply lines cut; brothers at school who had breakfast on alternative days because of scarcity of food, potato peel cakes; buying crisps from the post office, eating them and being sick as not used to them, red cross food parcels; his mother doing laundry for Germans as they had to live, sometimes there was bread in amongst it; bread from the Perelle Bake house towards the end of the Occupation; taking food there to be cooked; sayings his father used to say, one about tomato plants and feed; living at La Rue Cohu when first married, a saying about planting potatoes; not having opportunities to speak Guernesiais anymore (no people); some evacuees returning and being able to understand Guernesiais, but not speak it, evacuees had learnt more at school, better schooling; speaking with his late sister, but turning to English as her husband couldn’t speak Guernesiais; son in Cambodia speaks a little Guernesiais on phone, but not in Guernsey; not being able to understand young people when they try to speak Guernesiais, reading it; father was a lay preacher, preached in French, but it was coloured with Guernesiais; being deaf and having hearing aid; visiting his grandfather, and seeing vegetables, taking vegetables back home; grandparents looking older than they were; families not like they were, all speaking Guernesiais, changes after the Occupation, being frightened of returning neighbours as they seemed to know more, schooling was different and lack of resources, learning German at school; boy copying his cousin’s work at school, even his name; learning to live one with another; learning a lot from the radio, more than at school, listening to boxing commentary with deaf grandfather; television and not needing to use imagination like with the radio; wireless hidden during Occupation, under floorboards, taking it out on May 8th 1945 to hear Mr. Churchill’s speech, flags and bunting; going by tractor to town for the Liberation, Clifton, speech at the College, utility clothing, stories of people changing wheelbarrow loads of marks for pounds; the tractor in Occupation museum, trailer rotten in field; visit of King and Queen, arch at St. Apololine, La Grand Rue.

Language_Name: Guernesais Language_Region: Europe Language_Country: UK Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2009-10-01 End_Date: 2010-07-31

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Identifier: oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929940

SG0021

Identifier (URI): https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI929940%23

Publisher: Julia Sallabank

School of Oriental and African Studies

Subject: Dialogue

Type: Audio

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Archive: Endangered Languages Archive

Description: http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk

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OaiIdentifier: oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929940

DateStamp: 2016-09-26

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Citation: Enid Batiste; Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder); Roland Duquemin; Enid Batiste (consultant); Roland Duquemin (consultant); Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder). 2013-06-04. Julia Sallabank.

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Metadata
Title:		2013-06-04_EB01_RD01
		0116-20130802 - 2013-06-04_EB01_RD01
		Indigenous language documentation in Guernsey, Channel Islands
Contributor:		Enid Batiste
Contributor:		Roland Duquemin
Contributor (consultant):		Enid Batiste
Contributor (consultant):		Roland Duquemin
Contributor (recorder):		Jan (Yan) Marquis
Date:		2013-06-04
Description:		EB01 talks about: where she lived/lives, playing in fields as children; different schools that she attended; her father being a pastor; moving house to town during the Occupation, unhappy experience at Vauvert school; her sister going into service, first near Candie, then for the priest of St. Joseph’s Catholic church; her older sister having a baby; other sister having a bike accident involving a German cycling into her in the Green Lanes and having to in the Country (Castel) hospital, dying there (17 years old); her nephew (the baby) visiting Guernsey for his, and wife’s seventieth birthdays; living at St. Jacques and travelling by horse and trap to St. Saviour’s then onto St. Peter’s for funeral (EB01 was 11 years old); moving to St. Peter’s (Le Douit d’Israel), basic state of house, one tap, no electric, outside non flushing toilet; red cross parcels; running out of food; her father growing potatoes during the Occupation, hiding them from the Germans; people who speak Guernesiais, a friend from Chapel who couldn’t speak English well; niece who understands Guernesiais, but replies in English; granddaughter reciting in Eisteddfod; sketch that she took part in for Guernsey French Eisteddfod in which she was Grandmother (deaf), the other person granddaughter; having to practise sketch on telephone as other person had bad leg and couldn’t drive, laughing a lot when practising; travelling by horse and cart, horse having flatulence; uncle visiting one Christmas with wine (during Occupation); shaking the bottle whilst opening it, wine went everywhere, over clock; grandmother being evacuated, house all left abandoned, father collecting a gramophone and she was always left turning the handle; changes to life after the Occupation; school during the Occupation, being taught German and copying another pupil’s work as not being able to write German; going by tractor to town for the Liberation; going to Town on bike at the Liberation with father. RD01 talks about: only speaking Guernesiais (G) when he was a child; German Occupation, going to school; childhood memories of being treated well by the Germans; an officer taking the good room of his parents new (built 1938 ??) bungalow at La Rue des Crabbes, not being a nice man, a Nazi, and he did not like RD01, but really liked his younger sister, a friend being reprimanded by officer for watching him clean his pistol (called him a Jew); officer on return from holiday brought a gift for sister, but not for him, mother would tell officer off; his father growing food in greenhouses during the Occupation, last year of which was difficult as supply lines cut; brothers at school who had breakfast on alternative days because of scarcity of food, potato peel cakes; buying crisps from the post office, eating them and being sick as not used to them, red cross food parcels; his mother doing laundry for Germans as they had to live, sometimes there was bread in amongst it; bread from the Perelle Bake house towards the end of the Occupation; taking food there to be cooked; sayings his father used to say, one about tomato plants and feed; living at La Rue Cohu when first married, a saying about planting potatoes; not having opportunities to speak Guernesiais anymore (no people); some evacuees returning and being able to understand Guernesiais, but not speak it, evacuees had learnt more at school, better schooling; speaking with his late sister, but turning to English as her husband couldn’t speak Guernesiais; son in Cambodia speaks a little Guernesiais on phone, but not in Guernsey; not being able to understand young people when they try to speak Guernesiais, reading it; father was a lay preacher, preached in French, but it was coloured with Guernesiais; being deaf and having hearing aid; visiting his grandfather, and seeing vegetables, taking vegetables back home; grandparents looking older than they were; families not like they were, all speaking Guernesiais, changes after the Occupation, being frightened of returning neighbours as they seemed to know more, schooling was different and lack of resources, learning German at school; boy copying his cousin’s work at school, even his name; learning to live one with another; learning a lot from the radio, more than at school, listening to boxing commentary with deaf grandfather; television and not needing to use imagination like with the radio; wireless hidden during Occupation, under floorboards, taking it out on May 8th 1945 to hear Mr. Churchill’s speech, flags and bunting; going by tractor to town for the Liberation, Clifton, speech at the College, utility clothing, stories of people changing wheelbarrow loads of marks for pounds; the tractor in Occupation museum, trailer rotten in field; visit of King and Queen, arch at St. Apololine, La Grand Rue.
Description:		Language_Name: Guernesais Language_Region: Europe Language_Country: UK Project_Status: Complete Year: 2009 Start_Date: 2009-10-01 End_Date: 2010-07-31
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929940
Identifier:		SG0021
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI929940%23
Publisher:		Julia Sallabank
Publisher:		School of Oriental and African Studies
Subject:		Dialogue
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI929940
DateStamp:		2016-09-26
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Enid Batiste; Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder); Roland Duquemin; Enid Batiste (consultant); Roland Duquemin (consultant); Jan (Yan) Marquis (recorder). 2013-06-04. Julia Sallabank.