Elaine, I was going to say, in reply to your posting, that Robert Edward Christian was a pledge only, in the estate of Robert Oates Christian. That means that he and his colleague were men of substance who would make sure that Jane Sayle Crellin properly administered her father’s estate. Presumably, if she did not, then the pledges would have to compensate the beneficiaries for any loss.
Then I read Sue’s message that was posted a few hours before yours. I followed the link and came upon the lengthy thread from 2010. I had nearly given up reading when I came to the messages about Edward Corteen’s letter, and in particular Sue’s posting of September 1st that year. I see that I did the work for you then. Robert Oates Christian, The Flatt, and Robert Edward Christian, Baldromma, were second cousins, their respective paternal grandmothers being sisters.
If you send me an e-mail to pjallen at btinternet dot com (modified to turn it into a proper e-mail address), we can talk about some more material that I have that could help you sort this out.
In her posting of 2010 August 18th at 8.11 a.m. Sue sets out a census return for 2 Washington Terrace, which she says is one of three entries between Maughold Street entries. In your message of 1.27 p.m. you say that you visited Washington Terrace in 2000, a new or rebuilt construction. A large part of South Ramsey was demolished in the 1960s/70s. The desolation is visible in the 1968 photograph of South Ramsey on p. 345 of the Radcliffes’ History of Kirk Maughold. St. Paul’s church remains, but almost everything has gone, southwards as far as Old Cross, onto which the roadways of College Street and Church Street can still be seen converging. The demolition had only got as far as Approach Road, running west to east towards the Promenade. On the other side of Old Cross a little narrow street is just visible, with its houses still there, continuing southwards, heading down to the entrance to Queen’s Pier. That part has all gone now too. Ballure Road can be seen continuing southwards, turning a little to the right, to run up away from the shore. Constance Radcliffe regretted the destruction. Probably if those streets had survived, they would now be similar to the attractive old terraced streets of Peel and Castletown, possibly with vehicular traffic banned from the narrow roadways.
Why do people substitute Phillip for Philip? The transcriber(s) of the monumental inscriptions at Maughold made that substitution over the entire graveyard, as far as I can see. The practice of giving the ll form to a boy only started to come in in the second half of the 20th century. Before that, people were content with the spelling of the saint and the Prince/Duke.
Philip Allen