[from A.M Harrision's Descriptive List of Insular Societies]

(130) The Mona Joshua Tent of Rechabites, Ballaugh - 1865

Description

The Mona Joshua Tent is the only Rechabite society to fail to reach listing in 1914. Based on a small agricultural parish, in an area ringed with strong local societies, the Andreas Benevolent Society for example, its last listing, with a membership of 44 and capital of £581 is in the Examiner Annual of 1906.

Records

M.N.H.L., Isle of Man newspapers, passim; Isle of Man Examiner Annuals

Publications

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Later research (by F.P.C)

see Rechabites' page


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