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CONTRIBUTIONS DE LA FAMILLE LE SAUTEUR À LA PETITE HISTOIRE DE JERSEY
Extracts from Hommage à la famille Le Sauteur
(William Thomas LeSauteur, 1982) and other sources



 

Philip Winter Le Sauteur (1865-1957)


Philip Winter Le Sauteur, born 1865, died 1957. Phillip Winter was the only son of Philippe George and Dlle Elizabeth Maret(t). He and Caroline had four sons and four daughters. The boys worked on the farm (La Ferme de la Fontaine) and the girls ran the house, giving extra help in the fields when required. Each girl looked after one brother's clothes and when the boys went out their suits were brushed and taken care of.

The Farm-house had two nice attic-type bedrooms, the four boys had one of these and the four girls the other. Papa was a stern man, a good family man and apparently did not believe in Birthday Presents, but once-a-year the whole family were taken on the train from St.Hélier to Les Quenevais, St.Brelade to the race meeting, then back by train to St.Hélier and the first house pictures at the "Alambra". Then they all went to the second house pictures at "West's Cinéma", after which they walked home to the farm at Longueville. They took "picnic" food with them and in view of the prodigious effort required it is no wonder that it happened only once per year.

Papa attended St.Saviours's Church each Sunday, having had differences of opinion at Grouville Church where the rest of the family attended.

When P.W. Junior married and set up at Fern Hill Farm, Papa gave him several heifers as a wedding present, but later he asked for them back, the present was the calves the animals had and not the original animals. Philip Winter Junior took over at "La Ferme de la Fontaine" just after the end of the Second World War and Papa moved into Fountain Villa where he remained until his death, but Papa and Philip Winter had ran the farm jointly sinced 1934, each having his own fields.

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