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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Re: irish ancestors
In Response To: Re: irish ancestors ()

guess you saw this:
(www.manxnotebook.com/towns/peel/oldpeel2.htm)
Adjoining Thompson's premises there stood in the first half of the century a thatched cottage at the corner of "Bayr Burough" — now Love Lane — wherein dwelled an Irish family, the father of whom was Torence Fitzpatrick. "Torance" got it altered to "Toddy", and the people of Peel fastened that name on all the members of the family. Old Toddy imported an ancient side-car from Ireland, & let it out on hire, — a bit of a curiosity, the wheels being solid, & without spokes. One of the most noted of Torence's children was Mary Toddy, who, after occupying a room in "Castle Ray", and paying no rent for over twenty years, defied the owner to put her out. But out she went in her old days to more comfortable quarters provided by the Poor Committee.

no help there too.