Gleanings on the Le Boutillier Family

2 10 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine NOTE: It should be remembered that in the first half of the 18th century Germany was on the Gregorian calendar and America on the Julian calendar. A German boarding a British ship at Rotterdam on April 22-1730 would be told that it was April 11 in England and America. After 1752 both sides of the Atlantic used the same calendar. This explains why there is sometimes confusion as to birth dates in German and American church records. It is hardly necessary to remind German searchers that the call name in German is the second name. Mary Catharine Ensminger, known as Catharine, may end up in a court record as Mary Ensminger. Likewise, since before 1752, January and February were given the dates of the previous year, anomalies seem to appear in dates. January 15th "1730" was likely January 15th 1731—often written Jan 15-1730/31. The above information may be helpful to beginners. Gleanings on the Le Boutillier Family Island of Guernsey, Ozanne/ Islands: A plaque in the Guille-Alles Library in St. Peter Port is inscribed: "1889. Charles Le Boutillier de Philadelphie, Etats-Unis; James Le Boutillier, de Cincinnati, EtatsUnis; a la Memoire de Leur Pere, George le Boutillier, Ecr., Ne 1783, Recede 1867, le Promoteur de !Arcade Commercial." (Ecr. = Ecuyer, French for Esquire. "The impetus for another improvement came from a Jerseyman, Le Boutillier, who had taken up business in Guernsey. He was extremely critical of the standard of education in the island, particularly of Elizabeth College, and in 1821 he forwarded proposals to the new Lieutenant-Governor, Sir John Colborne a . Besides introducing gas to the island he set on foot a most ambitious project, to remove some narrow alleys and quarry away thousands of tons from the side of Mont Gibel, at the back of High Street, and there to build a new Commercial Arcade, with four entrances and a glass roof. The cost of this scheme bankrupted him before it was finished, but the final result was a pedestrian shopping precinct which modern planners may envy." John Uttley, The Story of the Channel Islands [London, 1966] , pp. 178-179.) --Contributed by Francis James Dallett,