Place in the Isle of Man

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Just a note: Christian is a very common surname on the island!

I see what you mean!!

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"The works of the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, D.D, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man ..." - several editions.

The form of consecrating began "Towards the building and endowing of St Patrick's Church ...".I'm assuming the 2 ordinations did not relate to that church.

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See pages 65 note 15 and Kirk Marown 192-195.

https://archive.org/details/felthamstourthr00feltgoog/page/n4/mode/2up

[KGarrad]

From an alphabetical list of vicars of the Isle of Man (https://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/vicars/alist.htm):

Christian    Thomas    1691-1703    Patrick
Christian    Thomas    1697-1698    Jurby
Christian    Thomas    1713-1729    Rushen
Christian    Thomas    1733-1741    German
Christian    Thomas    1734-1753    Marown
Christian    Thomas    1780-1799    Marown

So it looks like there were 2 vicars called Thomas Christian in the 1730s and 1740s.

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Memoirs of Mark Hildesley, D.D., Lord Bishop aof Sodor and Mann (pub 1799)

Mandate to inthrone Bishop HILDESLEY in the See of Sodor & Mann; ...."
Witnesses

[KGarrad]

Some interesting finds, hanes teulu

[hanes teulu]

Thanks.
From your list of Manx vicars, the Parish of German candidate, 1733-41) does not "fit" the only burial I can spot for that year (transcripts only for me!) -
Thomas Christian, age 0, 14 Oct 1741, Jurby

The burial at Balla...killy (or similar) for Thomas Christian, 5 Aug 1742, does not "fit" the Thomas Christian, vicar at Marown 1734-53.

I was drawn to the Thomas Christian having children at Marown 1735-1741 - wife Joney Killey. Looking at Ballakilley as "Killey's farm" - clutching at straws!. 

[kokomo]

My apologies. It was Christian indeed. You see, in many many places I've found it as Xtian and perhaps when I typed it I left the r behind. My mistake.

And yes, we are referring to that branch of the Christians. It seems that one of my ancestors was indeed the vicar. I found out that on a marriage record mentioning the wedding of a "reverend XX Christian the Vicar of..."

It seems my second GGF and GGm were both Manx and I am now tracing back that family line. Which I must say it has been much more easy to track due to plenty of data at imuseum.im website. I found very useful the mentioning of the wife's maiden name at records.
Cheers

[KGarrad]

Thanks.
From your list of Manx vicars, the Parish of German candidate, 1733-41) does not "fit" the only burial I can spot for that year (transcripts only for me!) -
Thomas Christian, age 0, 14 Oct 1741, Jurby

The burial at Balla...killy (or similar) for Thomas Christian, 5 Aug 1742, does not "fit" the Thomas Christian, vicar at Marown 1734-53.

I was drawn to the Thomas Christian having children at Marown 1735-1741 - wife Joney Killey. Looking at Ballakilley as "Killey's farm" - clutching at straws!.

Apparently (!) Ballakilley can also mean homestead/farm of/near the church?

I believe that the dates for the vicars are when they were in service?
Some of them moved to a different parish, or retired.