Isle of Man Family History Society Journal

Volume xi - 1989

no 1 Feb 1989

• Purt le Moirrey (Port St Mary) Schooners poem
• Schooners crew lists
• The Manx Fishing Fleet (derived 1871/81 census)
• List of Men from the Gold Diggings Adelaide
• The Cannells of Collins Street
• Craine Family Braddan/German
• Letter from America (Ohio 1826)
• A Mariner's Will of 1751 (William Kneale)
• The Isle of Man in 1875 (ex Harpers New Monthly Magazine)
• Going to Kinsale (Manx Mus Folk Life Survey)
• Old Castletown (Watterson memoirs (1939) (conc)

10th aniv special May 1989

• The Family History Society
• Beyond the Microfilm readers (Intro to holdings of Manx Museum Library)
• My Curphey Family
• Shopping in Union Mills in the early 1930's
• To Hearts in Exile (poem)
• Staward (quarterland prev Ballabrooie)
• Manx Place Names
• A Manxman to the very last (William Kennish b. 1799)
• The John Collister mystery (d.1868)
• Big Well Street (Douglas now Lord St)
• The Cholera Epidemic in the IoM (1832/49/66)
• "The Pilgrims"
• Transportation Records
• Relics of Convict Days (Tasmania)
• Records held in the General Registry
• Mannin (poem)

No 2 May 1989

• A Manx Wedding (poem)
• A Bridson Wrinkle (cont from jul86)(names in fam bible)
• Marriage Contract (Callow/Corkill May 1732)
• Marriages (check list of where to search)
• Victorian Marriages
• Newspapers (humorous reports of Marriages)
• Goldsmith tree
• Manx Wedding Customs
• Stray Marriaages (various names/places)
• Liber Causarum (extracts 1734/5)
• A Manxman at Trafalger (John Lace)
• The case of the missing marriage record (Braddan marriages 1730-4)
• The marriage of Isabel Lowey in 1746
• Curious facts (James Woods unauthorised entries in 1871 Patrick census)
• May 23 1822 Bigamy of Jane Kelly (nee Quiggin) to Thos. Fayle
• Feb 10 1823 Qualtrough marriage

no 3 Aug 1989

• When Childher Play (T.E.Brown + brief cv)
• Manx Church Magazines (+extract relating Robert Glmour 1891)
• The Old Umber House, Castletown. A forgotten industry
• Abbeylands Chapel (Onchan)(+ list Sunday School pupils 1857 + 1883)
• Three trees from John Cowin=Catherine Sayle (m. Ballaugh 1776)
• Was Hawley McKissacke executed in 1422
• School Register November 1864 Ballasalla
• Pupil School Teachers
• Cape School Laxey 1897 (photo + names)
• Marown School Log (excerpts 1877/80)
• The Muller Homes Bristol (Curphey Children 1847)
• The Douglas Middle School in 1860
• John Courtney Bluett (settled IoM 1820-53)
• Sights and Sounds of Childhood remembered (20's/30's)
• Another Manx Bible (Killey)

no 4 Nov 1989

• Cashtal yn Ard, Maughold (poem)
• A History of Kirk Maughold - Cashtal yn Ard
• Friendly Societies (Books of Onchan Soc in Manx Museum)
• The Graves in Onchan
• To the King's deceit (Thomas Stowell smuggler d1755)
• Manx Cottages - Christian's Cottage (Edmund Christian m.1778 Port Erin Rushen)
• Description of Funerals (Kk Braddan)
• The cost of a funeral 1732
• Accounts extracted from burial registers
• The beginnings of a Skillicorn Family Tree
• Christian's of the Ballabeg, Kirk Bride
• Thomas Karran of the Isle of Man (Query re 2 possibilities chr. 1782)
• Kinsale Funeral (William Ball d.1877)
• An emigrant Manxman John Scarff (Gippsland Australia)

Any comments, errors or omissions gratefully received MNB Editor
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