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Manx Genealogy

Re: Inheritance question, 1700s

NSS May 1730 43(maughold) - dated 2 Dec 1729;recites that Philip Quilleash(Dooin, Maughold) being bedriiden for 12yrs + not able to manage my farm except by depending on others to labour do with consent of wife Eleanor als Cowin sell for £40 to relieve my urgent necessities to John Skillicorn, junr(Ballarrie, Lonan) any title to qtrland of the Dooin rent 4s + customs + also a parcel of intack adj 8d rent;witt John Callow x, Eleanor Killey x, Hugh Black

SSS May 1729 49(Lonan)- dated 6 Nov 1728;Wm Quilleash(Doon, Maughold) + John Skillicorn(Ballarraugh);Quilleash surrenders any title in dwelling house that my father John Skillicorn now holds lying in Skinscoe; also agree that boundary between them runs from south corner Skillicorns haggard to the rock in Skillicorn's garey (called Little Garry) from rock to mere hedge thro field called Toaryoane to upper end of mere then to grey stone set in highway adj highway hedge;Quilleash also surrenders land in garey southward of rock (also mutual surrender of two fields);witt Patt Crellin, John Bridson, junr;abbey setting quest state each party to pay same rent as before

I've only just started on Lonan + Maughold deeds