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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Re: Leece, Watterson, Taggart, Kinvig

Just received the package from my cousin. Lots of info on the Kinvig lines but only a couple of connections to the Leece line.
Here's one on Elizabeth Anne Leece- (nee Watterson of Ballarobin), oldest child of William and Anne(nee Taggart) Ken Kinvig's maternal grandmother.
When she was 20 she married Thomas Leece of Ronague, oldest son of Mary (nee Cain) and Samuel Leece, a crafter, fisherman, and later a miner in Foxdale lead and silver mines, working on the wash.
When they married, she and Thomas lived at Ballarobin with the Wattersons; old Mrs. Watterson, William and Anne Watterson, and her brothers & sister, William, Edward, Henry and Eleanor Isabella.
Here, 6 of their 7 children were born and brought up- Selena, Annie, Florrie, Bretha, Thomas Henry(Harry)[my father], and Isabel. In the early days, there were 4 generations living together. Before Alfred was born, they took their family and moved to the Moaney Moar to farm. Later, they moved to Glen Cam and finally Kerrowsmoar.
Ballarobin had to be sold to support William and Anne in their retirement and their invalid off-spring William Edward and Isabella who both suffered from the after effects of polio. There is a photograph of Selena (the oldest child (named after Elizabeth Anne's sister Selena who had died at 9 years of age.
Thomas was probably working in the gold mines of Africa at this time, but he only stayed a year because there was an outbreak of sleeping sickness, so he returned home to Ballarobin. Elizabeth Anne was a good singer and used to sing with Billy Watterson of Warfield. She said her children would have only one name (with the exception of my father) because she was plagued by her own long name when she had to write it out so many times as a punishment at school. She went to school at Foxdale and Grenaby.