George Paulett, Bailiff of Jersey

George Paulett (1534-1621) was Bailiff of Jersey multiple times during a period from 1583 to 1611 and was temporary Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.[1]. George Paulet died in 1621 and was buried at St Saviour's Church. Remarkably, considering the long service he gave to the Crown and the island, he was never knighted.

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Biography

George Paulett was the son of Sir Hugh Paulett, Governor of Jersey, and his wife Philippa Pollard, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard (1465–1540) and Agnes Hext. George's older brother was Sir Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for Mary, Queen of Scots.[2] [3]

In 1583 he took over the position of Bailiff for Jersey from Jean Dumaresq. After a few year in 1586 Dumaresq would resume his role as Bailiff but only for a few months and George Paulet would become Bailiff once more. The position of Bailliff was handed back to Jean Dumaresq in 1591 for a period of five years as Paulett would serve as Lieutenant-Governor in Guernsey.[4]

Family

Paulett married Elizabeth Perrin (1538–1615), daughter of Edmund Perrin (1494–1552), Seigneur of Rose. They had a daughter:

Rachel Paulett (1561–1650) married Philippe de Carteret I and had issue;

[Child of Alice (Plesey) Pacy and George Paulet is:7. i. Rachel Paulet. She married Sir Philip de Carteret.]

Family

http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/George_Paulet

George Balleine's Biographical Dictionary of Jersey shows that George Paulet was married four times. He says that his first wife was his cousin Elizabeth Paulet, and that in 1564 he married Ysebel, daughter of Edmund Perrin, Seigneur of Rosel, and widow of former Bailiff Hostes Nicolle. He shows Ysebel as mother of Rachel, giving a birth date of 1564, but Hostes did not die until June 1564. Other sources show that Rachel was born in 1561, which would mean that her mother was probably Elizabeth Paulet.

The Cercle de Carteret website disagrees with Balleine's sequence and which wife had which children, naming his four wives in sequence as Elizabeth Paulet, mother of Rachel; Ysebel Perrin, mother of Abraham and Dorothy; Lucrece Daubcy, mother of Elizabeth and Philip; Cecile - no children

Edmund Perrin, Seigneur of Rosel, was born in Jersey but descended from the prominent Perrin family of Guernsey. The baptismal names Elizabeth and Ysabel were often interchangeable at this time, but Edmund Perrin appears to have had two daughters, one Ysabel and one Elizabeth. Some sources show Elizabeth as marrying Hostes Nicolle and George Paulet, and Ysabel marrying a Jean Dumaresq. Others show a marriage between Elizabeth Perrin and Guernsey Jurat Jean Effard.

Eminent medieval genealogist Leo van der Pas shows Rachel's mother as Ysobel Perrin and George Paulet later marrying to Alice Pacy (Plesey), just to complicate matters.

References

• http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/George_Paulet
• https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00119103&tree=LEO cites
• “The Pouletts of Hinton St. George.” Colin G. Winn. Research Publishing, 1976 - England - 202 pages.GoogleBooks
• The visitation of the county of Somerset in the year 1623 by St. George, Henry, 1581-1644; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633; Camden, William, 1551-1623; Colby, Frederic Thomas, 1827-1899; College of Arms (Great Britain) Page 83 Archive.Org (John Pawlett of Hinton); Page 88 Archive.Org (George Poulett of Cotehurst).
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Paulet
• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paulet,_Hugh_(DNB00)_
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_de_Carteret_I Philippe de Carteret I, 2nd Seigneur of Sark (1552 - 1594) was the Seigneur of Sark from 1578 to 1594. He was the oldest son of Hellier, his predecessor in the office. Philippe's mother was Margaret de Carteret, widow of Clement Dumaresq, Seigneur of Samares. In 1580, he married Rachel Poulet (1564-1650), daughter of George Poulet (c. 1533-1621), Bailiff of Jersey, and granddaughter of Sir Hugh Poulet, Governor of Jersey (d. 1573). They had 2 children named Philippe de Carteret II (1584-1643) and Elias (1585-1640).
• http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=bferris&id=I36247
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Paulet