In his annual Christmas message, Sir Philip Bailhache says that people who have recently settled in Jersey should feel as much at home in the Island as people who have lived here all their lives.
After posing the question of when an Islander was ‘entitled’ to call himself a Jerseyman, he said: ‘You do not have to have a Norman name, nor must you have dozens of ancestors buried in the Island’s churchyards, to regard yourself or to be acknowledged as a Jersey man or Jersey woman. It is much more a question of where you feel to be at home.
