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The parishes continued to be represented, and the jurats were replaced by 12 senior statesmen, known as senators in Jersey and conseillers in Guernsey, whose purpose was to bring political maturity and continuity to the more democratic island parliaments. | The parishes continued to be represented, and the jurats were replaced by 12 senior statesmen, known as senators in Jersey and conseillers in Guernsey, whose purpose was to bring political maturity and continuity to the more democratic island parliaments. | ||
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands] | |||
===Timeline=== | ===Timeline=== | ||
1639 - 1651 During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Jersey held out strongly for the Royalist cause, while the more strongly Presbyterian Guernsey more generally favoured the parliamentary cause<br> | |||
1940 - Many young men had already left to join the Allied armed forces, as volunteers. 6,600 out of 50,000 left Jersey while 17,000 out of 42,000 left Guernsey. Thousands of children were evacuated with their schools to England and Scotland<br> | |||
1940 – 1945 During the German occupation over 2,000 Islanders were deported by the Germans<br> | |||
1945 - The end of the German occupation came on 8 May 1945, Jersey and Guernsey being liberated on 9 May. The German garrison in Alderney was left until 16 May, and it was one of the last. Many of the evacuees who returned home had difficulty reconnecting with their families after five years of separation<br> | |||
== Population Statistics == | == Population Statistics == | ||