No your text was there but you ticked the keep formatting box without putting in your own line breaks.
I still think Haven means a safe place and not a geographic location though Whitehaven is directly opposite Ramsey - links between English East Coast and IoM are I think non existant (probably needs a sailing distance of some 400+ miles ?)
Apprenticeships woulkd start about 12 - I cant really imagine an 8 year boy at sea.
Illegitimacy was not really important to the manx at that time see http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/famhist/genealgy/illegit.htm
re population - some 20% of Island population at that time would be non-manx - see http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/famhist/genealgy/imig.htm

Frances