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Manx Genealogy

Re: Robert Gill-Eleanor Gill
In Response To: Robert Gill-Eleanor Gill ()

1841
Bond St, Douglas

Ancestry’s transcription:

Name Age
Robert Gill 41
Eleanor Gill 42
Elizth Gill 12
John Gill 6
Margaret Gill 3
Alex Bowler 23
Wm Barber 23
Joseph Proster 28
Jas Statham 38
John Thorp 19
Wm Thorp 20
Edwd Stones 16
Charles Stones 23
John Kay 36
Hugh Clucas 30
Joseph Hulme 20
Elizth Hulme 20
Bently Wilne 23
Elbr Kelly 16
Jane Kissack 18
Jno Dawson 18
Christian Taubman 25
Elizth Cubbin 30

notes:
It’s likely to have been a “house of multiple occupancy” or a boarding house. Robert was a tanner. I think that Eleanor was alias Kelly, nee Keig (widow of John Kelly, a cooper). Robert and Eleanor married in 1827 in Braddan, I think.
The non-family members of the household—occupations and birthplaces:
AB 22 engraver England
WB 23 spindle maker b Eng
JP 28 coach ? b Eng
JS 38 fustian dresser b Eng
JT 19 land surveyor b Eng
WT 20 dyer b Eng
ES 16 engraver b Eng
CS 23 engraver b Eng
JK 36 hatter b Eng
HC 30 coroner b IOM
JH 20 ind b Eng
EH 20 b Eng
BM 23 M.D. not b IOM
EK 16 no occupation given b Eng
JK 18 FS b IOM
JD 18 ap b IOM
CT 25 FS b IOM
EC 30 FS b IOM

Hope this helps

Jean C