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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Re: Cuttong the heir off from inheritance

We should really check how B/k descended, as if a couple did not marry in "a year or so" after the birth of an illegitimate son, he was not legitimated by the subsequent marriage. Of course all this went out of the window with the Wills Act 1869, and a landowner could leave a former property of heirship as he or she wished.