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Re: John Looney & wife ??? LLewellyn

There was I think a Looney connection with the Philadelphia linen trade - as this was dominated by Quakers and Maughold was the centre of Quakerism on the Island from c.1660 through to early 18th C (links apparently to Dublin Quakers, see an article in Feb IoMFHS journal re Callow) my own thesis is that parish register entries might well be missing - mindyou absence of any official record has not stopped all sorts of 'inventive' Manx records appearing in the IGI