George F. Le Feuvre

The Le Feuvre family was separated in 1901 when George senior, Florence, and their two younger sons, Sidney and John, emigrated to Jersey's cod-fishing settlements at the Gaspé coast in Canada.

George left school at age 14 to go to work in the offices of solicitor William Binet in Saint Helier.

He continued working in the legal environment and was appointed Commis Vicomte for the Police and Petty Debts Court in 1914.

He later explained to his readers that although he loved Jersey so much, the experience of meeting his brothers on the battlefield had inspired him to rejoin his family.

In 1922, in search of new opportunities, he moved to Detroit in the United States where he joined the Ford Motor Company, first as a nightwatchman.

Wishing to be free of commitments that would tie him down, he turned down the offer, but agreed to provide a weekly column in Jèrriais from wherever he happened to be.

In subsequent decades, George established a pattern of spending part of the year in North America and the rest staying with friends in Jersey and indulging his love of travel.

He eventually acquired a house in Jersey, Le Ménage ès Feuvres, that used to belong to his family until sold after the death of his great-uncle Charles.

The occasion of his 90th birthday in 1981 was marked with a dinner given in his honour by Le Don Balleine, and a celebratory mass in the chapel of Saint Ouen's Manor.

From 14 April 1982, George's articles in Jèrriais were accompanied in the Jersey Evening Post by a parallel translation into English.