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[Fom Manx Soc vol 29]
The parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and was consecrated
The living is in the gift of the Crown.
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Tithe value |
£141 8 0 |
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Glebe,56 ac. 3 ro.. Rateable value |
86 17 10 |
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Total |
£228 5 10 |
A good vicarage-house and garden.
The clerk of the parish has 12 acres of glebe. The register commences in 1696.
Over the front door of a forener church, on a stone, was-" To the honour of the Sacred Trinity. This church was rebuilt, A.D. 1704. The Right Rev. Dr. Ts. Wilson, the Bishop ; Mr. Rob. Parr, Vicar - General, Minister ; James Christian. John Curghey, and Edmund Curlett, and Robert Curghey, Churchwardens."
An Act of Tynwald was promulgated on the 5th July 1832, for building a new church for this parish on part of the estate of Ballakillingan ; and that the site of the old church shall form part of the churchyard.-Geneste's Statutes, pp. 100-105.
In 1856 half-an-acre of land, lying at the west side, and adjoining the present churchyard, was purchased from Mrs. Susanna Eleanora Farrant, for £50, as additional burial-ground.
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VICARS OF LEZAYRE. |
Appointed. |
Cause of Vacancy. |
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MICHAEL, " The Canon." |
1408 |
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Oliver's Monumenta, ii. p. 247. |
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WILLIAM NORRIS |
1575 |
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WILLIAM CROWE |
1603 |
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SILVESTER CROWE |
1614 |
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EDWARD CROWE |
1624 |
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JOHN STANDISH, |
Son of William Standish.By the "Lord's Book," 1630. The clerkship, with the glebe and profits, for twenty-one years. |
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CHARLES COOLE |
1640 |
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RICHARD Fox |
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Epis. Regr. Died in 1679. |
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JOHN THOMPSON |
1660 |
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SAMUEL ROBINSON |
1667 |
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ROBERT PARR . |
June 20,1686 |
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ROBERT PARR . |
June 11,1698 1 |
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Vicar-General. |
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HENRY ALLEN. |
April 13,1713-14 |
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Vicar of Maughold 1727. |
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WILLIAM BRIDSON . |
Jan. 24,1727-28 |
Resignation of HenryAllen. |
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Rector of Bride 1729. |
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MATTHIAS CURGHEY, Junior |
Feb. 12,1729 |
Resignation of Wm.Bridson. |
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Vicar-General. |
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JOHN GILL |
April 2,1761 |
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Translator of 2d Chronicles and a portion of Psalms into Manx. Died Oct. 1772, aged 64 ; buried at Braddan. |
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THOMAS CORLETT |
Sept. 13,1773 |
Death of John Gill. |
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Translator of Job into Manx, while Curate of Bride. |
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HENRY MADDRELL |
March 22,1803 |
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JOHN HENRY LA MOTHE |
Dec. 5,1842 |
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WILLIAM BELL CHRISTIAN. |
July 7,1845 |
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EDWARD SNEPP |
1861 |
Resignation of W. B. Christian. |
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THOMAS HENRY |
1863 |
Resignation of E.Snepp. |
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W. M. HUTTON |
1870 |
Resignation of Thos.Henry. |
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CLEMENT C. W. SHEPHEARD |
Dec. 26,1877 |
Resignation of W. M.Hutton. |
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Present Vicar. |
This chapel is dedicated to St. Stephen. Patron, the vicar. Valle, £110.
A chaplain's house and garden.
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CHAPLAINS OF ST. STEPHEN'S,LEZAYRE. |
Appointed. |
Cause of Vacancy. |
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JOHN QUALTROUGH . |
Licensed Dec. 12,1839 |
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Chaplain of St. Jude's, Andreas,1848. |
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EDWARD BRAILSFORD |
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JOSEPH PRESTON WARD |
Licensed August 6,1849 |
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MATTHEW NESBIT THOMPSON |
Licensed May 8,1851 |
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WILLIAM KELLY |
1855 |
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JOHN CORLETT |
Licensed April 1858 |
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Of St. Bees. Chaplain of Cronk y Voddy 1859. Chaplain of St. John's 1865. |
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JAMES ORCHARD STUART . |
Licensed May 2,1859 |
Resignation of John Corlett. |
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ROBERT W. AIKEN . |
1860 |
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SAMUEL S. WALKER . |
1862 |
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WILLIAM KELLY |
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J. E. PATTISON. |
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W. J. CANTON . |
Resignation of J. E Pattison. |
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Present Chaplain. |
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