1 Pound St. Brelade's Parish Bank

St. Brelade's Parish Bank was one of several short-lived parochial banks operating in Jersey during the mid-nineteenth century, issuing notes that circulated almost exclusively within their own parishes. These institutions operated with minimal oversight and no central bank backstop — when confidence faltered, they collapsed quickly. The JN reference system (Jersey Notes) is the standard attribution for island issues, though surviving specimens from the smaller parish banks are genuinely uncommon, most having been redeemed, destroyed, or simply lost when the issuing banks wound up.

1859 places this note in the final decade before Jersey's informal banking landscape was effectively consolidated under more formal arrangements.