Hi Elaine,

I'm so pleased you have managed to obtain a copy of "Ramsey 1600-1800". There is so much local information included which I didn't touch on, and your family was well-known there for several generations.

There were additional comments which the Radcliffes made in their Maughold book within a long chapter describing "The town of Ramsey", which are also interesting.
".... Another Christian family, known in the seventeeth century as "Christian Hommy", in the eighteenth as "Christian the Flatt", and in the nineteenth and twentieth as "French Christian" held one quarter of Ballacowle quarterland from at least 1584. Their residence, on the site of the Plaza, was in the nineteenth century called Elm Cottage; their stables, outbuildings, and stackyard lay between Clague's showroom in Albert Road and the main shop; their land, not to be confused with the Noe Beg's Flatt, stretched approximately from Albert Road to the Harbour on one side, and to the Leighany on the other..."
And:
"Ramsey had been constituted a town in 1865, when eleven candidates contested seven seats on the first Ramsey Town Commission. The first chairman, Robert Oates Christian, was a member of one of the most ancient and distinguished Ramsey families, the French Christians, formerly of the Flatt. R.O. Christian himself had been in business in Le Havre before retiring to Ramsey".

Sue