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Manx Genealogy

Presentments Bride, Lezayre

Does anyone have easy access to presentments for the the northern parishes please?

I was puzzling over having found just one marriage of a John Corjeag but baptisms of children to at least two different women (not counting the bride) and a John Corjeag/Cavendish in the same area around the same time, and the best solution does seem to cast a bit of a blot on someone's character:

Ballaugh marriages
1831
John Corjeag of the parish of Michael & Ellinor Corlet of this parish were married in this Church by license this 8th day of January 1831 by me H. Stowell,
This marriage was solemnized between us
John Corjeag
Ellinor Corlett her X mark
in presence of John Corjeag, William Corjeag

If this is the happy couple ten years later, the bride and groom weren't in the first flush of youth (I have looked at Eleanor Corlett before, and her first marriage):

(1841) Broogh-Jiarg Mooar, Ballaugh HO 107/1463/4 es33 p17 (ED3)
Ann Corlett 81 IOM
John Corjeige 58 Farmer IOM
Elinor Corjeige 40 IOM
Elinor Clark 15 IOM

I also have:

Charlotte d/o John Cavendish & Margaret Martin bapt Nov 4th 1832 Bride.

(1841) Balla Cowe, Lezayre HO 107/1464/1 es9 p.12 (Ancestry: Corendirk for Cavendish)
John Kneale 60 farmer Y
Catherine Kerruish 30 FS Y
Margaret Marden 29 Y
Sharlot Cavendish 4 Y

(In 1851 Margaret Martin is a pauper in Bride, and Brian Lawson's burials has: MARTIN, Margaret 43 bur. Lezayre 22 Feb 1856).

and -
Mary Fell d/o John Corjeage & Elizabeth Fell c.13 Oct 1839 Lezayre IGI ext [Mary Corgeage is with her Fayle mother and grandparents in the census]

There were a number of John Corjeags alive at the same time, mostly in Kirk Michael, and I'm hoping there'll be some evidence somewhere to identify the father of the illegitimate children, as at the moment I seem to be pointing the finger at Elinor Corlett's husband!.