In one sense nothing on these pages is new!
They are designed to reflect my antiquarian/archival interest in
things Manx and thus tend to be 19th Century or
earlier.
What is listed here are new arrivals to the site - many other small additions, corrections etc are not noted.
For various reasons I have neglected to update this page for many years - however additions + corrections etc were continued
to be added - most effort has gone into the CD Rom which now holds many property records
including indices to all North + South Side Sales, Mortgages, Enrolled and Castletown Deeds (so called from courts then
held in Castletown tho cover all Island properties) - some 55.000 entries. Over 6000 summaries of these deeds together with
summaries of some 1500 marriage contracts. The CD also contains transsciptions of various manorial records including Lib
Vas, Lib Assed and Composition Books.
12 Sep 2023
13 Feb 2021
- I'm afraid I haven't been keeping this page upto date but considerable new matterial has been added to the WW1
internment section
- More has been added to the property sections on the CD Rom - there is also a
special section on the CD of some 60 late Victorian watercolours of the Island that were to be part of a Manx Museum exhibition
in 2020 but fell victim to Covid 19 lockdown..
6 Feb 2020
- Considerably more relating to the Internment Camps added
- Small additions to Will Summaries and many other pages.
19 Nov 2018
26 Aug 2018
- Several pages added about Knockaloe Internment Camp - more to come
- Many changes to the various pages dealing with Postcards eg added lists eg Stengel
- more to come in next few days as all pages relating to postcards are updated
- Many other small additions to established topics + numerous small corrections to my poor typing + proof reading
10 Jan 2018
- Many small additions + corrections to many pages
- Several new full texts have been added (eg a few of Hall Caine's texts from during and after WW1)
1 Jan 2013
- Many more Will summaries added
- On CD the index to deeds pre 1847 is over 99% complete (only the years 1842-1847 in Onchan remaining) - of the near
24,000 some 4,000+ have been summarised - many early Mortgages also added
- On Cd more transcription of Lib Vast have been added
- several monographs have been added - the main addition being Cubbon's Bibliography
(about 85% complete)
- The Cartobibliography (Maps) section has seen much work - tho much more to be done on
later 19th C maps
13 May 2011
- Will summaries of all 18th C wills for Patrick, German, Michael and Ballaugh
are almost complete
- The Railways have been added to a small set of pages on Transport systems.
- Many more deeds have been added (though CD Rom only)
- Additional postcards (large images on CD Rom) have been added to various databases
7 Feb 2011
- An even longer period before updating this page - much has been added though most will be seen only on the CD Rom Version
- The Will Summaries are near complete for 18th C wills in several parishes
- Much work has been done on Marriage Contracts - some 1000 of the 1800 or so
found in the North & South Side sales have been summarised
- There are also many summarised deeds - a start has also been made on other land records (Lib Assed + Lib Vas)
- Also on the CD are scanned images of all Maps in Woods Atlas - also large images
of many Maps (eg 1st Edition O/S 1"/mile, Smythe 1826
&c)
- Many more texts have been added or missing sections added
1 Jan 2008
3 Dec 2006
3 March 2006
- Updating this page seems to have been forgotten - however there have been
many additions/updates to the site in the last 11 months (some 15% of the
pages have been altered in some way) - the main additions are detailed below
- The Letters of T.E.Brown (3rd ed
1900) are now online though with a few corrections needed to correct the Greek
quotes
- Many additional wills have been added including summaries for all Arbory
wills between 1700 and 1750 (those for Santan and German are in preparation), various Parish Register transcriptions
(Santan, Patrick Arbory) have been added arising from my research.
- A few extracts from presentments
& from Lib Scacc have been added
- again more to come
- Lists of the Poor of Douglas as
reported in 1869 have also been added (again a little more to come)
- Significant parts of the 1911 report
on the Constitution
- Some issues of the early 20th C magazine Manxman are on line
- List of WW2 dead as reported in Examiner
Annuals - a start has been made on the photographs of WW1 Roll of Honour but
these will be on CD-Rom, A few additional years of
the Annuals have also been added
- Partial scans include the 1849 Letters
of Bishop Shirley, the 1869 Ab-o'th'-Yate
sketch (in Lancashire dialect) describing a trip to the Island plus several
others
19 April 2005
- Tourist Guides - J Brotherston Laughton's
Guide of 1842 (1847 edition) and the copiously illustrated Mates'
guide of 1898 (1902 edition) though the CD-Rom version will be needed
to fully appreciate some of the photo's
- The Portrait and Event sections of the Examiner
Annuals are now virtually complete for 1898 through to 1923
- More Early Wills (again most courtesy
of Joyce Oates)
- A start on the classic Manx Crosses
by P.M.C. Kermode (his earlier Norse Heritage
is also available)
- A few of the Manx Dialect plays
and poetry by his sister Josephine ("Cushag")
- A selection from the Atholl Papers (mostly
concerning events leading up to the Revestment)
- Various manorial rolls and composition books for Arbory
(several courtesy of Wally Corrin)
- Many completions of missing material (eg in Mannin)
& of course many enhancements to existing material
- On the CD-Rom are more transcriptions from German PR's and also an annotated
1841 census for Peel
24 Oct 2004
1 Sep 2004
10 Mar 2004
- 12 Photographs dating from c. 1880
- Manx names from Ohio Censuses 1830,1840,1850,1860
- Hall Caine's novel The Deemster
- Many additions to other sections.
25 Jan 2004
16 Dec 2003
25 Jun 2003
- Main site moved from University to this - considerable tidying up to bring pages up to HTML 4.01 standard as well as to improve accessibility.
- Complete text and music Manx National Music added; Manx Ballads also completed
6 Jan 2003
3 Dec 2002
11 Oct 2002
5 June 2002
- Many more years of Manorial Rolls for Peel
Cottages have been transcribed
- More chapters from Train's
History of 1845 added
- Many missing sections/chapters that were awaiting scanning
have now been added (eg in the various Manx Society or under Full
Text version) - currently the CD_ROM
version now has over 9100 files.
- Some additional short studies (eg that on Late
Victorian 'Photographic' Albums) added, generally accessible
from the Subject catalogue
pages
28 Feb 2002
8 Jan 2002
3 Oct 2001
10 May 2001
1 Nov 2000
8 Jun 2000
- William Kennish's Mona's
Isle of 1844 gives a fascinating account of country
customs in the 1820's and 30's.
- Town customs of some 70 years later were denounced from the
pulpit in Morals of
Douglas
- The various dance halls so vigourously denounced are covered
in various pages on the Palace
and Derby Castle. Other
tourist attractions on Douglas
Head are also illustrated
- To return to an earlier age and more serious matters - the
translation of the scriptures into Manx under Bishop Hildesley was
the all too brief flowering of the Manx Language - Weedon's 1799
Memoirs of Bishop
Hildesley are now partially complete.
- The parish pages have been
re-organised to give easier access to information - that for the
'cinderella' parish of Santon
will give a flavour when all is complete.
- Mannin is now 90% complete (a
few short stories missing) - many early papers from the IoM
Natural History and Antiquarian Society are also available as
are many of the fascinating collection of previous unpublished
documents in the pre-war issues of Journal of Manx
Museum.
- A master list of all biographies
available on my site is also nearly complete - many more subject
pages have also been added to my catalogue
pages..
3 Jan 2000
29 Oct 1999
21 May 1999
18 January 1999
- For family historians Pigot's
IoM Directory of 1825 is now online - this is almost the
oldest (a Manx section was published as part of the Irish
Directory in 1823). (The 1837
edition has not been forgotten but this
is becoming more of a retype than a scan)
- Mona Miscellany vol II (Manx
Soc vol 30) is also almost complete - this included the
Douglas Householder list as well as a genealogy of the Greenhalgh
family.
- At long last, Moore's Manx
Worthies is now complete, though some files, currently over 50
Kbytes, may have to be split for easier downloading.
- Another of A.W.Moore books - Diocesan
History of 1893 is now on-line (though some chapters await
linking of footnotes) - this has been possible thanks to Mr K
Gumbley who gave me his scanned version.
- A key player in the Manx church in the 1830's was Benjamin
Philpot (Archdeacon and Vicar General) - I have given the Manx
chapters from memoirs of him in Our
Centenarian Grandfather
- To balance the scales and pay unto Caesar what is Caesar's (or
should that be Quayle's ?)- Clay's Currency (Manx
Soc vol 17) which covers the history of Manx Coinage and
banking.
- Also on the banking theme is P.G.Ralfe's Sixty
Years of Banking.
- Ralfe was a keen ornithologist and observer of the Manx
countryside in the first part of this century - I have scanned his
description of the Island from his Birds
of the Isle of Man.
23 December 1998
- A fair amount of A.W. Moore's Manx
Ballads 1896, has been scanned , including some of the
music (though these can be quite large GIF files)
- 1896 also saw the publication of the 'rival' Manx
National Songs by W.H.Gill - a start has been made on
this so it is possible to compare Moore's original Manx with
Gill's parlour-room Englished version.
- To complete the musical scene a copy of A
Book of Manx Songs as issued to Manx Troops in WW1 is
also included (gives words of Ellan Vannin and Manx National
Anthem).
- As many of these ballads also appeared in the Manx Society
publications a good start has been made on Vol 16 Mona
Miscellany.
- Otherwise much of my time has been spent tidying up the site,
completing a few more page-sets and publishing a CD-ROM of my web
site.
24 November 1998
26 October 1998
- Much time has been taken up with providing a frames-based
index to most sections (not quite complete as of yet) and in
tidying up, and better indexing, many other pages - the small
icon at the
bottom of many pages will switch into this mode. For those who do
not like frames the existing (& new) pages will still work as
before.
- Complete text of 1911 version of Sophia
Morrison Manx Fairy Tales is now available. Other Anglo-manx
books intended to be added are Egbert Rydings Manx
Tales and I.H.Leney Shadowland
in Ellan Vannin
- The 1819 edition of Lex
Scripta (i.e. the Laws and Statutes of the Island) has been
started.
- over 95% of the Manx Note Book
(ed. by A.W Moore) 1885-7 is now available - minor editing +
correction will be done over the next few weeks.
- Much of the tidying up is prior to the production of a CD-ROM
version of these pages (now some 1000+ pages!) - should be
available mid/late November (i.e. in time for Christmas) at a
estimated cost of £10 (or $15) + pp. E-mail for further
details.
27 August 1998
- The page on the Coastal
Path has now been considerably expanded - my recent holiday on
the Island has allowed me to take more photos which will be added
over the next few weeks.
- A Six Day's Tour through
the Isle of Man, 1836 - presumed author was John Welch
architect of many of Bishop Ward's churches. This is an
entertaining, and at times rather caustic, view of the
Island.
- A brief biography of another larger than life character,
Rev Robert Aitkin, has
been added to my Methodist people pages.
- Sections from two more directories - Pigots
1837 and Brown's 1894
- have been added; more to follow over next few weeks.
- More sections added to the genealogical
sections e.g. a brief section on newspapers
and on illegitimacy.
Other sections have been updated.
10 June 1998
5 May 1998
19 Apr 1998
8 Apr 1998
- Waldron's A
Description of the Isle of Man of 1726 in the edition
with notes published by the Manx Society is now scanned in (a few
figures to be added). This account, indicating either great
credulity or possibly 'mickey taking' at the Manx expense, is a
source of many of the folktales retold in later years.
- Considerable extra material has been added to the Ohio
emigration section - see Manifests
of Emigrant Ships, 1826/7 as a convenient departure
point.
15 Mar 1998
- A significant amount of tidying up - Claris Home
Page though not exactly want I want has allowed a
considerable amount of checking and correction to be done
- Feltham's Tour of 1797
is now virtually complete - a most useful document surveying the
Island at the end of the 18th Century. Links have been
added to other pages as appropriate
- The earlier Tour through
the Isle of Man, 1794 by D. Robertson is partly available -
completion soon
- High Baliff Laughton's
Reminiscences published 1916 but referring to 1850-1880 life
in Douglas is well worth reading for its amusing asides on Manx
Legal life.
7 Mar 1998
- Several new arrivals - the complete directory from Thwaites
1863 Isle of Man Directory and Guide is now available; I don't
intend to add the historical section as this adds little being
based entirely on other secondary sources (in particular Cumming's
1861 guide). Each parish also included a potted history of the
parochial charities derived from the 1831 Isle of Man charities.
As this is also now on-line I do not intend to copy these
sections. However I will add the various town and parish
guides.
- As mentioned above the Isle
of Man Charities of 1831 is also on-line. This is a useful
historical document - in particular for the state of Manx schools
c.1825.
- A considerable amount has been added to the emigration
section of the Genealogy sources section - in particular dealing
with the 1820's emigration to Ohio.
23 Dec 1997
30 Nov 1997
- Most of the pages on sources for Genealogy.
There is still more to do do but I hope to finish them
shortly.
- A couple more chapters of 'Moore's
History - those on the Land Settlement, Agriculture and
Mining.
20 Nov 1997
- Mostly tidying up, however a brief description of each parish,
taken from Brown's IoM Directory of 1894, has been added to the
parish page.
A start on a long term project to add both the gazattteer and maps
from Woods Atlas of 1867
has been made with Santon Parish.
6 Nov 1997
- 'A History of the Isle
of Man' by A.W.Moore - the 'classic' history of the Island -
with some 1000+ pages and footnotes this will take some time to
complete. Although a two volume paperback reprint is available I
have added hyperlinks. Currently just the Introduction is scanned;
further chapters will be added at regular intervals.
3 Nov 1997
- 'Castle Rushen' by
Armitage Rigby; full-text - illustrations to follow shortly
27 Oct 1997
23 Oct 1997
- Old Historians of the Isle
of Man - scanned text of Manx Society vol 18; currently
Camden's History, Bishop Wilson's Histories and Groses
'Antiquities' are complete. The remainder will be added as time
permits.
22 Oct 1997
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