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Manx Genealogy

Re: Thomas Corkish 1858 and an old manx saying

Further to the above, I now see in the 1861 census that A. Jane Quayle was living with her mother, also Jane Quayle a washerwoman at (47) Ballacottier Andreas with Thomas Corkish who was aged 2 years. Meanwhile at (48) Ballacottier was John Daugherty (or similar spelling) aged 19 a ploughman. There is an old manx saying that, you should never marry a woman unless you can see "the smoke from her fathers midden from your own back door" It seems this was never truer than in my own family.