Work Achievements
Catherine was appointed the Archivist for the Office of the Superintendent Registrar in 2024. A new role created to coincide with the move to a new purpose-built office at 25, New Street, St Helier.
Catherine works at the Office of the Superintendent Registrar four days a week which still leaves time for her freelance work which she started in 2010. She has provided a professional service to members of the public and commercial businesses organising and cataloguing their records for long term preservation and access. As an established, well known and deeply respected member of the Island community Catherine has been engaged to work with some of the most important archive collections in Jersey including:
After leaving the Jersey Archive, Catherine widened her experience by taking up a post at The Women’s Library, London. She worked on the Genesis Project which involved travelling around the UK visiting a variety of archives and libraries, collating information relating to women’s history to put on a central website. It was still early days for the internet and the possibilities for sharing information about historical collections were only just being realised.
Catherine worked at the then newly created Jersey Archive from 1994-2001, and was part of its development from one room in the Jersey Museum to a purpose-built repository in Clarence Road, St Helier which opened in 2000. She was promoted to Senior Archivist in 1999.
Catherine was appointed the Archivist for the Office of the Superintendent Registrar in 2024. A new role created to coincide with the move to a new purpose-built office at 25, New Street, St Helier.
Catherine works at the Office of the Superintendent Registrar four days a week which still leaves time for her freelance work which she started in 2010. She has provided a professional service to members of the public and commercial businesses organising and cataloguing their records for long term preservation and access. As an established, well known and deeply respected member of the Island community Catherine has been engaged to work with some of the most important archive collections in Jersey including:
- Gerald Durrell’s Personal Archive
- Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust Archive
- Alan Whicker Archive (deposited at the British Film Institute Archive in 2016)
- Seymour Hotels of Jersey
- Hettich 1900
- Liberation Brewery
- RoMo Images – Stereoscopic Photographic Collection
- Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive
- Le Blancq Family Archive (dating back 10 generations, deposited at the Jersey Archive in 2022)
After leaving the Jersey Archive, Catherine widened her experience by taking up a post at The Women’s Library, London. She worked on the Genesis Project which involved travelling around the UK visiting a variety of archives and libraries, collating information relating to women’s history to put on a central website. It was still early days for the internet and the possibilities for sharing information about historical collections were only just being realised.
Catherine worked at the then newly created Jersey Archive from 1994-2001, and was part of its development from one room in the Jersey Museum to a purpose-built repository in Clarence Road, St Helier which opened in 2000. She was promoted to Senior Archivist in 1999.
Talks
Catherine has regularly been invited to talk about her work including by organisations and large forums such as the Jersey Festival of Words, U3A, Soroptimist International Jersey, Jersey Ladies Literary Luncheon Club and the Jersey Island Federation of Women’s Institutes.
Professional Affiliations
Awarded the Archives and Records Association Distinguished Service Award for Archives and Records Management in August 2026. Nominated by Superintendent Registrar, Claire Follain.
Qualifications
Catherine has regularly been invited to talk about her work including by organisations and large forums such as the Jersey Festival of Words, U3A, Soroptimist International Jersey, Jersey Ladies Literary Luncheon Club and the Jersey Island Federation of Women’s Institutes.
Professional Affiliations
Awarded the Archives and Records Association Distinguished Service Award for Archives and Records Management in August 2026. Nominated by Superintendent Registrar, Claire Follain.
Qualifications
- TQUK Level 6 Diploma in Digital Leadership (RQF), Digital Jersey 2020-2022
- Postgraduate Diploma in Archive Administration, Bangor University 1993-1994
- BA (Hons) History & Archaeology, University of Winchester 1990-1993
- L/A/01 Overseas Trading Corporation Limited – an export business archive dating from 1876 when it relocated to Jersey. A large employer in the Island, there are many photographs of staff receiving long service awards. Many younger Islanders would probably be surprised to learn that the Island was once home to a tea packing and tomato canning factory that once produced Jersey Lily Tomato Sauce. The collection has hundreds of items and it took two years to catalogue.
- D/J States of Jersey Education Records – another large collection dating back to 1872 and containing school annual returns, inspector's reports and log books. Also records and photographs from the Jersey Home for Boys and Jersey Home for Girls.
- L/C/32 Quérée Legal Documents – legal documents dating between 1566 – 1916, mainly relating to rente (a form of mortgage).
- D/N Sport, Leisure & Recreation, Fort Regent Plans – A huge collection of plans detailing the changes Fort Regent underwent during the 1960s and 1970s.
- L/D/07 Trinity Agricultural Society – Minute books, committee reports and accounts 1899 – 1923.