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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Re: death and birth help
In Response To: death and birth help ()

first of all Brian's index in NOT COMPLETE even as a list of burials - it is NOT a death index (Manx can die off Island, at sea etc and bodies were seldom brought back for burial)
Certainly by the 20th century it is very unusual to give the same name to another child whilst the first is still alive, it is not unknown