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Channel Islands

Historical Description

Channel Islands, a group of islands in the English Channel, near the coasts of Normandy and Britanny, in France. The chief are Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and others are Herm, Jethou, Le Marchant, and the Caskets. They were known to the Romans, were early occupied by the Gauls, were an asylum of refugee Britons fleeing from the Roman power in England, received Christianity early in the 6th century from Wales, were ceded by France in 912 to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy, continued to be held by William, the seventh duke, at his conquest of England, and though frequently attacked by France, and sometimes severely shaken by political changes in England, have, with slight interruption, remained ever since annexed to the English crown. The several islands will be separately described in separate articles in their alphabetical order.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Chapman code

The Chapman code for Channel Islands is CHI.
Chapman codes are used in genealogy as a short data code for administrative areas, such as county and country names.

Counties

Alderney
Guernsey
Herm
Jersey
Jethou
Le Marchant
Sark