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Manx Genealogy

Questions

I have a few questions if anyone can answer them please. On a page in 1846 there were 5 deaths of babies/ very young chn....was it smallpox at that time? What does Corps of Royal Manx Fencibles or Tencibles mean? At the end of a burial line it says ......dei. I think it was a 3 letter word or abbreviated to 3 letters. Dei is I think God. Thanks