Editing Pierre Carey le Pelley

{{Short description|Seigneur of Sark}}
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'''Pierre Carey le Pelley''' was Seigneur of Sark from 1849 to 1852. In 1844, desperate for funds to continue the operation of the [[silver]] [[Mining|mine]] on the island, le Pelley's father [[Ernest le Pelley]] had obtained [[The Crown#Crown Dependencies|crown permission]] to mortgage the [[Fief]] of Sark for £4,000 to John Allaire, a local [[privateer]]. In 1845, the ceiling of the mine's deepest gallery collapsed. The company was uninsured for this, and was finally closed in 1847. Pierre was unable to keep up his mortgage payments and was forced to sell the [[Sark#Politics|seigneurie of Sark]] to [[Marie Collings]], John Allaire's daughter and heiress, for £6,000.<ref>[http://www.jerseyheritagetrust.org/edu/resources/pdf/silver.pdf F.Cohen and N. Bird ''Silver in the Channel Islands''. Jersey Heritage Trust. pp. 85-86] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042133/http://www.jerseyheritagetrust.org/edu/resources/pdf/silver.pdf |date=2008-12-17 }}</ref>

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title=[[List of Seigneurs of Sark|Seigneur of Sark]]|
years=1849&ndash;1852|
before=[[Ernest le Pelley]]|
after=[[Marie Collings]]}}
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[[Category:Seigneurs of Sark]]
[[Category:Le Pelley family|Pierre Carey]]


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