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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Re: Alias - use of
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What happened post 1700 is that english practice began to influence more of Manx thinking - the 1765 act of revestment was the major turning point but the 1777 acts moved Manx legal thinking (and eg status of women) much more into the English 'chattel of husband' way of thinking and the laws progressively removed more and more of women's inheritance rights