Twenty years on I am still researching my convict GGG grandmother Sarah Lynchey who was sentenced to transportation. Currently looking for anything about her husband, she is described as a widow on all the documents that I have found including her trial at Castle Rushen.

Frances Coakley’s Manx Notebook records the “Manx Sun” reporting on 2nd October 1832 amongst other cholera deaths …On Monday at Castletown….Michael McLinchey… and later in the same report “At Castletown on Thursday…Son of Michael McLuchy….

Brian Lawson’s transcriptions of Burials include…Michael Clenchey, 65, Malew 25/09/1832 and also William Clenchey, 14, Malew 28/09/1832. ¹. In 1832 September 25th was a Tuesday and 28th a Friday, i.e. in each case the day after the cholera deaths recorded by Frances Coakley from the Manx Sun.

No Clenchey, McLinchey or McLuchy appear in Brian Lawson’s transcriptions of Births or Marriages or in Dissenter Baptisms which are posted on the IoM Family History Site.

It is possible that accents and the level of literacy even amongst the clerks and vicars could cause errors in recording details, as well Sarah was herself illiterate and could not identify any errors. Add to that the fact that these were Irish Catholics at a time of little toleration and perhaps the clerk did not feel the necessity to clarify any detail that was not Clear.

Would Male be the cemetery? Would these be individual graves? Would it be possible for someone to photograph the location for me please?
Peter Strauss
Melbourne
Victoria