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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Brian - Births Index

Brian, I think I might have asked you this before - if I have, I hope you'll indulge me again as I'm afraid I can't find/remember the answer.

I'm curious to know why no Cavendishes show up in your Index of registered births - according to the 1901 census the following should have been born from 1878 onwards. Is it likely that a whole family could avoid registration? If not, I wonder how the Mormons missed filming them?

Children of Thomas & Jane Cavendish born in Douglas:
(Edith Annie, by then Collister, 23)
Alice 21
William 19
James 17
Joseph 14
Beatrice 12
Alfred 11

Any suggestions? I'm hoping to confirm their birth/baptism dates and also mother's forename. This is given as Jane in baptism records for earlier children, except for one instance of Jane Maria. The most likely burial I have seen however is for an Elizabeth Jane.