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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Cowley connections

Can anyone throw any light on a post card I was given belonging to my late uncle Alex Roach Palmer. Card had photograph of the "Mary Isabella" Lifeboat crew (my grandfather Albert Palmer appeared on this) and was sent from Ramsey in 1907 to "James Cowell Island Lass of Peel Lerwick Shetland Islands.
Names mentioned on card were Emma, Charlie and Harry, the family had "come over for the day"