This is for Frances

On Manx Note Book page
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/kj1827n.htm

which concerns the emigration from the Island of Thomas Kelly etc in 1827.

You say: They sailed on the 'John Bull' from Ramsey to Liverpool - Mona Douglas [see later notes not finding it in Lloyds Register surmised that it was a local fishing vessel. However with 10 adults and 9 children it would have to be a large vessel - most manx fishing boats were small and had 8 crew being designed for work close to land. Possibly it was the 'John Woods' which was one of four vessels that ran a regular service from Ramsey to Greenock and Liverpool (alternately - four sailings a week not on Tuesdays) [see Hainings Guide 1834].

I was checking the will of Lieut Mark Ecken R.N. (Ballaugh, 1826) yesterday and skimmed passed a will with a long list of accounts etc for a chap with the surname of Allen from Andreas who owned a 'smack' called the 'John Bull'...

David