Note 299 — Chapter XVIII · Guernsey Songs and Ballads.

Brecart—The Brecarts, Bregearts, or Briards, were a comparatively influential family in the parishes of the Vale and St. Sampson’s up to the sixteenth century; they then bought land in the town, in the district of Vauvert, and became known as “Brégart alias Vauvert,” and finally as “Vauvert,” pur et simple, they seem to have become extinct in the eighteenth century.