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Isle of Man / Re: Purser with the Isle of Man Packet? Any additional records please?
« on: Yesterday at 19:35 »
An F Anstruther (an unusual name on Island) is noted as a mourner at the funeral ( 28 May 1908) of Thomas Weston who was landlord of the Talbot Hotel in Athol Street - maybe this was his watering hole - might also be worth do a search of newspapers in case he had other social links

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Isle of Man / Re: Manx Genealogy
« on: Thursday 08 May 25 20:55 BST (UK)  »
yes probably gone as the ownership of Isle-of-Man.com was transferred from MT to new owners - my ManxNoteBook was preserved by the new owners but I suspect the genealogy board was lost

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Isle of Man / Re: Eliza Jane Smith
« on: Monday 05 August 24 21:07 BST (UK)  »
look up Roman Catholic under parishes on manxnotebook - there was St Francis Xavier as Douglas church pre St Marys - not sure Castletown had a resident priest at this period - seem to recall (it being some years ago I did the transcriptions) that sometimes non-Douglas baptisms were noted as such

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Isle of Man / Re: Eliza Jane Smith
« on: Monday 29 July 24 09:45 BST (UK)  »
roman catholic bapt 27 Aug 1842 -

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Isle of Man / Re: Gibbon MacKewley of Ballanard ..... was in the Keys in AD 1502
« on: Monday 15 April 24 22:33 BST (UK)  »
btw he would have inherited even tho under age - but an overseer would be appointed - at age of 14 he would have the right to choose another overseer -His mother would continue to exercise her widowright. Book yourself a holiday on island and look at the original records in the Museum reading room!

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Isle of Man / Re: Gibbon MacKewley of Ballanard ..... was in the Keys in AD 1502
« on: Monday 15 April 24 22:27 BST (UK)  »
there are many lib asseds between 1511 and a century later -
 I selected the most readable one to post but there are probably enough surviving annual lib asseds to get a complete succession of holders of Ballanard -
Mark was certainly installed along with his mother  - Michael was probably an uncle as shown in the quoted excerpt there are McKewley's elsewhere in the same treen (ie near neighbours)
but if Mark died without issue then the next brother in order would inherit - as the parish regs haven't survived difficult to know -
 there were at least 2 Johns in sequence - they are held by Manx Museum I photo some of thos in 2nd half of 16th C  a decade ago for another purpose - not sure what were photo'd by mormons

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Isle of Man / Re: Gibbon MacKewley of Ballanard ..... was in the Keys in AD 1502
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 10:48 BST (UK)  »
Ballanard/Ballanird is in the treen of Tromode (Tremot in early records) in the parish of Onchan
in 1511 Mark McKewley was paying the Lords rent of 16s 4d (noted with surety of Michael McKewley) which suggests he was underage or young
- this is the earliest record though there may be some of the late 1490s but I'm not sure these include Onchan
see www.manxnotebook.com for explanation of property records etc
by 1600 John Kewley with mother was paying the same rent
in 1578 a John McKewley with mother was paying rent - I attach a photo of entry
you can trace the holder of this farm via Lib assed (possibly filmed under manorial records by Mormons)

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Isle of Man / Re: wills
« on: Saturday 11 March 23 09:03 GMT (UK)  »
the quoted section using "obo" is taken from the summaries of thousands of deeds, wills and marriage contracts on my cd edition of manxnotebook - obo is my shorthand for on behalf of which is a standard phrase used in these contracts whereby generally parents of the young couple about to be married come to some arrangement over land to be transferred in the future (eg conditional on a child being produced, survival of mother etc)
these contracts have to satisfy a court - this one didn't at 1st attempt hence my note at start - these summaries were done by myself to aid my own private research at the Manx Museum where I (and other visitors) have easy access to the originals - in this case North Side Sale May 1728 Lezayre #25
- I understand that these deeds were photographed some years ago by the Mormons and might be found online

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Surname please?
« on: Friday 10 March 23 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
he was held in Knockaloe (Knockaloe camp #5793 where he was registered on 18 May 1915 - transferred to Spalding for deportation on 14 Jan 1919
(see my site www.manxnotebook.com for details of these camps)
his PoWIB number was 14924 from which brief details can be found as those with PoWIB #s below 15000 can be found under the Military section in the Red Cross (ICRC records) - age 24 gave address as 7,11 Bahnhofstr Hamburg
he came to Knockaloe from Handforth (a Camp nr Manchester that was being cleared of Civilian internees ready for Military combatant PoWs) and was probably in Camp 2 compound 1

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