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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Family movement

I was wondering if there are any traditions about where a mew family would tend to reside on the island. For example, in trying to locate family members, I saw a tendency for the family surname to remain in, for example, Lonan, while a marriage took place in Onchan, but then the next generation of children were still born in Lonan. Does that suggest the wife may have come from there, or am I trying to find patterns that won't work.

I'm trying to pin down the potential gggrandparents, but there appear to be about a dozen candidates with the same names only a few years apart.

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