[From Memorial Inscriptions]

Background

These Memorial Inscriptions were transcribed by Joyce M. Oates, who added a few notes [shown thus] from a manuscript copy of various M.I.s noted around 1914 (and held on Mormon Microfilm). I am very grateful for permission to include them on my site - however I have taken the liberty of reformatting and re-ordering them to better fit HTML pages.

Various typographic errors have been silently corrected. The original author would appear to be unfamiliar with many Manx names; handwriting, and the vagaries of microfilm, render some entries very difficult to read and thus many errors remain.

However they are extremely useful as many of these M.I.'s are no longer readable - the IoM Family History Society have now published books of all M.I.'s for Island graveyards and cemeteries and these should be consulted.

Earlier M.I.s were noted by Feltham in 1797/8 (see God's Acre printed as vol XIV of Manx Soc volumes) - though he failed due to vagaries of weather to record Kirk Braddan.