Lucy Layton will be at Jersey Library on 7 and 8 February between 11:00 and 15:00 to film islanders’ stories.

The Jersey Heritage’s Outreach Curator is hoping to hear from a variety of islanders as she says every Jersey resident has a story of how they came to be living in the island, whether their family had been here for 500 years or five years.

Pictured: Lucy Layton, Jersey Heritage’s Outreach Curator.

“Your family story might be one of 18th century Huguenots fleeing religious persecution in France; Madeiran hotel workers coming to the Island in the 1980s; or international finance workers arriving in the 2000s," she said. "Whatever your immigration story is, we would like to hear from you!"

According to Ms Layton, the exhibition will be about "the variety of people who make up the Jersey community and we would like to include and represent as many different parts of that community as possible".

The exhibition will tell immigration stories ranging from the island’s first permanent settlers, who arrived around 7,000 years ago, through to more recent economic migrants seeking a better way of life for themselves and their families.

Pictured: Islanders with French roots have also been asked to take part in the exhibition.

The new exhibition will also feature the result of several community projects, including the stories filmed at Jersey Library.

Jersey Heritage previously asked islanders with French roots to dig into their ancestry ahead of the exhibition. 

Ms Layton explained at the time that 10% of islanders descend from French agricultural workers, who came to Jersey in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with around 2,000 of them settling in the island permanently.