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[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]
According to the Local News column of the Manx Sun, 5 October 1844,
'a new society, bearing the cognomen of the Royal Cameronians' was founded in that town 'to promote good fellowship and conviviality, and on public occasion, to render aid in preserving the land and enforcing the observance of good order and gentlemanly deportment'.
This mixture of social club and private vigilante committee suggests the typical,
and probably short-lived, reaction of an expatriate group with Scottish ties
and some military experience, 'the charm of good society' for which Ramsey was
noted in a 1848 guide, when threatened with any untoward disorder. In this case
itis likely to have been the operation of a gang of mainly juvenile poultry
thieves and 'their depredations on the larders and poultry gardens of the gentry',
recorded in the Manx Sun of 7 September 1844.
M.N.H.L.. Isle of Man newspapers Manx Sun, 1844
Adams, Guide to the watering places
of England, including the Isle of Man
, (1848 );
C.K. Radcliffe, Shining by the Sea, a history of Ramsey, 1989.
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