I'm probably boring everyone, banging on about this again - obsessive or what? - but I'm still puzzled by what Moore says about a Cavendish family settling and owning lands in Michael in the 16th Century. I can't dispute that as I haven't seen the Liber Vastarum, but I don't understand what he says about the names in the registers:

"... from 1611 (when the Register commences) to 1650 their births, marriages and deaths are duly entered under that name [Cavendish], but after that time, though the family is known not to have died out, the name disappears, and CORJEAG entirely supplants it, the two names having co-existed since 1611."

The (several) copies of the Michael registers on the LDS film 0106737 do not seem to back that up at all. ALL the 17th & 18th century entries are Corjeag (various spellings), Cavendish doesn't appear until the 19th century, and then intermittently, describing the same families of Corjeages. As far as I can tell the Cavendishes in Ballaugh/Jurby/Douglas all descend from KM Corjeages.

Moore was obviously working before the 1912 official copy was made - could the original registers really be that different? Where could he have seen all those 17th century Cavendishes? Can anyone explain this mystery for me?

I cringe to post this again as I expect I'm the only one who's bothered, but it's really bugging me! Got to go to bed now, all the same ....