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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Re: Deemster who died nr Baldwin...

list of deemsters at www.manxnotebook.com/people/law/deemstrs.htm

don't always assume that smoke signals fire - Malew vampires have not been recorded elsewhere
there is one supposed burial place due to being caught in a snowstorm - Gill in 3rd scrapbook has
Among the mountains of Lonan, a long time ago, I chanced on a stone standing upright in the ling. Roughly cut on it were the names P. Stole, P. E. Stowell, and Stoal, and the dates 1814 and 1824. Lately I heard from Mr. James Mylchreest a story belonging to it. It marks, he says, the burialplace of a man who had been to Sulby Glen to see a girl, and on his way back to Lonan he was overtaken by a heavy snowstorm. He must have wandered from the track and struggled on till he was unable to keep on his feet any longer. Two or three days afterwards he was found lying dead near his stick, which he had stuck into the ground with his hat on the top of it, to catch the eye of any searchers for lost sheep, or for himself. Where he was found he was buried.