hidden-metaphor

Manx Genealogy

IOMFHS News - Feb meeting

Meeting held at Union Mills Methodist Church on 19th February 2010 at 7:30pm
---------
New members; Mr & Mrs Costain, Mr Wilkinson and Mr David Le Provost from isleofmanDOTcom
---------
Family History Booklets were ready for collection
Meeting arranged with DTL to discuss the 2011 London Exhibition. June outing is pencilled in for St Johns. Possible extra luncheon function in September.
---------
Forthcoming article in next journal will have an article on Quane witchcraft burning. Also Ballaugh and Maritime themes for coming journals
---------
The addition of wills commenced
---------
Guest Speaker; The Rev Shirtliff gave an illustrated lecture entitled "Celts, Culdees and Keeills", the end result of a sabbatical research year into how Christianity arrived on the island. He traced both the history of the monastic movement and gave examples from around the island which has a greater concentration of Keeills than anywhere else in the British Isles
---------
This is a brief summary of events which I thought people would like to know about.
Slaynt vie, Paul