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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Re: Lace Family
In Response To: Re: Lace Family ()

Isn't this the MI of Enos?
DEATH: 28 Dec 1852 - Rushen Old Yard Monumental Inscription T28:
In memory of the twenty nine men who lost their lives by an explosion of
gunpowder whilst saving the cargo of the wrecked Brig Lilly at
Kitterland Island 28 December 1852 leaving 22 widows and 77 orphans:
Enos Lace age 51 years.
William Cowley age 42 years.
William Kermode age 55 years.
Edward Gale age 42 years.
Henry Gale age 37 years.
Thomas Witted age 26 years.
John Cubbon age 57 years.
William Lawson aged 52 years.
Thomas Callister aged 45 years
John Callister aged 29 years.
John Fell age 27 years.
Samuel Callister age 29 years.
John Callister age 32 years
Robert Callister 33 years.
William Taubman age 42 years
Thomas Turnbull aged 32 years.
George Costain aged 32 years.
William Watterson aged 31 years.
Thomas Nelson aged 46 years.
Charles Clugston aged 43 years.
John Gale aged 45 years.
Edward Qualtrough aged 22 years.
William Watterson aged 29 years.
William Gone aged 22 years.
John Hudgeon aged 21 years.
Edward Watterson aged 25 years.
John Watterson aged 31 years.
John Craig aged 32 years.
John Wright aged 26 years.
"In the midst of life we are iln death".

And will of Enos
!EPISCOPAL WILL Rushen 1853 #1 FHL Film #0106454:
The humble petition of Thomas Lace, Enos Lace, Daniel Lace, Ambrose
Lace, Jane Lace and Catherine Lace, minors by Daniel Hughes and Robert
Gelling of Port Saint Mary in the parish of Rushen their guardians.
Sheweth: That on the 28th December last your petitioner's father Enos
Lace of Port St Mary aforesaid departed this life intestate, and leaving
him surviving your petitioners who are his children and only next of kin.
That the said Daniel Hughes was appointed guardian of your petitioners
by the Honorable Canby Chancery along with the said Enos Lace on the 6th
December 1849 and the same Robert Gelling was appointed their
guardian in place of the said Enos Lace on the 8th January instant.
That it is necessary that some person named be appointed to administer
the estate of the said Enos Lace deceased.
Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays a hearing hereof and that
administration of the said estate may be accordingly granted to some
proper person and they will pray. J. Gill.
Ordered that this petition do come on to be heard at an Ecclesiastical
Court to be holden at Ramsey on Monday next Whereof all proper person
to have due notice.
Given this 8th January 1853 T. A. Corlett.
At an Eccl Court held in Ramsey the 12 Jan 1853. Upon hearing this
petition in presence of the parties or their advocates and it appearing
that Enos Lace of Rushen some time ago departed this life intestate
leaving issue Jane Lace, Catherine Lace, Thomas Lace, Enos Lace, Daniel
Lace and Ambrose Lace his only children and next of kin who are
therefore decreed joint administrators of all and singular the goods
rights credits chattels and effects of the said deceased and being
mjnors one of their guardians namely Daniel Hughes is sworn in trust
well and truly to administer the said estate to pay all just debts and
funeral expenses of the decease so far forth as the goods will extend and
the law bind him and to return to the Episcopal Registry of this Diocese
a full true and perfect inventory of the same with an accurate account of
his acts and proceedings in the premises when then unto lawfully
required and to these ends he has given pledges namely Wm Joughin and
Robert Gelling who had executed the usual bond in presence of the court.
Decretum est T. A. Corlett
Inventory not typed.