Isle of Man Family History Society Journal

Volume xii - 1990

no 1 Feb 1990

• The Douglas Industrial Home (admission register)
• 'Manx Reverie' Barbara Cowley (poem)
• News from the Gold Diggings
• Cushag to Silver Fern (Quayles in New Zealand)
• Extract from diary of Alfred Cain (emigration 1868)
• Emigration
• Emigrant Strays
• My Search for my Grandfather (William Kermode)
• John Garrett's Cottage
• Emigrant Ships
• Homesteaders (Settlers in Canada 1907)
• Extract from Marco Polo Shipping List (Nov 1859)
• An emigrant Manxman John Scarff (Gippsland Australia) - Adventurous Career of Mrs Scarffe

no 2 May 1990

• Pension Lists for Douglas
• Expenses of having a baby (1809)
• Presentments (record of fathers of illegitimate chldren)
• " How we get involved " (missing marriage James Craine = Margaret Cowley German 1843)
• Another Missing Marriage (Southward = Stevenson Channel Island marriage)
• Problem Solved (Cornish/Cummings)
• Passenger and Immigration Index USA
• Stevensons Cottage (Union Mills)
• The "Town Clark" (Charlie Watterson, Castletown)
• Mary Ann McConochie (Walsh)
• The Poor Children's Free Breakfast Room
• Diamonds (J.H.Tomlin)
• The Douglas Poor House
• Douglas House of Industry
• How Early Manx Families migrated from Brimfield to Galva (USA)
• From the Royal Australian Historical Society ("Eagle & Child" + Moughtin Fam Tree)
• Petitions and Conveyances as Geneological Sources
• Curious Facts (Lonan Church Reg 1839-45)

no 3 Aug 1990

• Diamonds (J.H.Tomlin)(correction)
• Hollantide (T.Blackburn)(poem)
• Thornhill (Lezayre)(record of servants)
• From a Photostat Copy of an Indenture (W.Caine 1830)
• German Parish Marriages (1843-5 missing from microfilm)
• "Hollantide"
• Dumb Cake - Soddag Valloo (recipe)
• The Cowleys of Ardwhallen (further information)
• A Kitchen Maid (Lily Cowin)
• Servants (legacies to)
• Three Brew Royal Descents
• Homesteaders - the sequel
• Collectors Corner (Railway employees 1879-1909)

no 4 Nov 1990

• Taken from Jurby News (Israel Christian)
• A Monumental Tale (Braddan Cem. Lane + Gelling)
• Were your ancestors German?
• John Creetch, Castletown 1781(killed in service)
• Woodruff Family Tree
• The Castletown Barracks
• To Marquis of Crontry ? Cranley (re Barracks on IoM 1766)
• Old Strand Inn (Woodruff tenant)
• Knockaloe Moar (WW1 PoW Internment)
• Within the Nunnery Grounds, Braddan (MI's)
• Three Brew Royal Descents (cont)
• The Victorian Volunteers (+Muster Roll)
• Manx Military History
• Extracts from Manx Fencibles Records
• Curious Facts
• Buchanan Family Tree

Any comments, errors or omissions gratefully received MNB Editor
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