Le Mourin

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Property name

Le Mourin

Other names

• Le Mourin Farm
• Le Murin Farm ^[1]

Location

Rue des Potirons, St Saviour

Type of property

Late 17th century rural house

Valuations

No recent transactions

Families associated with the property

• Morin, which family, in the late middle ages, gave the property its name
• Dumaresq
• Collas
• Starck: In 1941 Alfred Thomas Starck (1879- ) his wife Hilda Alice, nee Dorey (1879- ) and their son Alfred Dorey Starck (1921- ) were living here. Alfred and Hilda married in St Helier in 1906

Datestones

• PDM ♥ EM 1684 - For Philippe Dumaresq and Elizabeth Messervy who married in Saviour on 23 November 1680 ^[2]
• PDM ♥ ALM 1766 ^[3] - For Philippe Dumaresq and Ann Le Maistre
• ICL ♥ FDM 1776 - For Jean Collas and Francoise Dumaresq, who married in St Saviour on 8 April 1772. ^[4] The couple had five children, all baptised in St Saviour, betwen 1773 and 1778. It is likely that they moved to Le Mourin when they married; the datestone records work undertaken on the property

Historic Environment Record entry

Listed building

This 17th century house retains its historic proportions and character and is significant historically. Probably late 17th century, ^[5] altered in 1776. A late 17th century bottle was found buried in the wall.

Wing on the east appears to be the oldest part, possibly 1684, the date on a carved corbel. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795. Two-storey, four-bay house with two-storey wing to the east.

Old Jersey Houses

Notes and references

1. ↑ This is the spelling used by HER but not otherwise supported
2. ↑ Philippe was the grandfather of the Philippe on the next stone, who was the father of Francoise on the third
3. ↑ Despite the correction to 1765 in the Datestone Register, the picture in the box above clearly shows this stone to read 1766
4. ↑ The marriage was not in 1758, as shown in the Datestone Register
5. ↑ This will have been a `rebuild` on a site with a recorded history from at least the 15th century, deriving its name from the influential 15th century Morin family, which gave the Island a Bailiff and four Jurats. The family were living in St Saviour, perhaps on this site in 1331, and are first mentioned in 1236