ALTHOUGH not having direct experience of leaving Guernsey, Christian Corbet has charted the history of his family’s move from the island.

He started out as an entrepreneur with a tea chest full of spider crabs and ended up one of the island’s foremost stonemasons. Rob Batiste traces the ancestry of Mick Le Pelley – and throws up some surprises

When his beloved father died in a freak accident, 14-year-old Mick Le Pelley’s life changed forever. Now the stonemason and sporting achiever is battling cancer, as he told Rob Batiste. But his legacy will remain, island-wide.

Mick Le Pelley’s family tree.

A wealth of wartime memories was unearthed when diver Richard Keen looked through his late mother’s possessions. Now a private exhibition reveals the fascinating past of the family farm at Les Prevosts, as Chris Morvan reports

In the first of a new series tracing the roots of local people in the public eye, Rob Batiste looks at the Best family history – and explores its links with Dylan Thomas.

Ponies, parties and acres of family fields for play. Cathy Best recalls an idyllic childhood – and the day she rode her horse into the kitchen.

A section from Cathy Best’s family tree.