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Isle of Man / Re: wills
« on: Saturday 11 March 23 09:03 GMT (UK)  »
the quoted section using "obo" is taken from the summaries of thousands of deeds, wills and marriage contracts on my cd edition of manxnotebook - obo is my shorthand for on behalf of which is a standard phrase used in these contracts whereby generally parents of the young couple about to be married come to some arrangement over land to be transferred in the future (eg conditional on a child being produced, survival of mother etc)
these contracts have to satisfy a court - this one didn't at 1st attempt hence my note at start - these summaries were done by myself to aid my own private research at the Manx Museum where I (and other visitors) have easy access to the originals - in this case North Side Sale May 1728 Lezayre #25
- I understand that these deeds were photographed some years ago by the Mormons and might be found online

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Surname please?
« on: Friday 10 March 23 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
he was held in Knockaloe (Knockaloe camp #5793 where he was registered on 18 May 1915 - transferred to Spalding for deportation on 14 Jan 1919
(see my site www.manxnotebook.com for details of these camps)
his PoWIB number was 14924 from which brief details can be found as those with PoWIB #s below 15000 can be found under the Military section in the Red Cross (ICRC records) - age 24 gave address as 7,11 Bahnhofstr Hamburg
he came to Knockaloe from Handforth (a Camp nr Manchester that was being cleared of Civilian internees ready for Military combatant PoWs) and was probably in Camp 2 compound 1

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Isle of Man / Re: WWI and WWII internees
« on: Tuesday 14 June 22 07:55 BST (UK)  »
would love to see these - My interest in is the Manx connection + especially in terms of WW1 the life in Knockaloe, the site of which I can see from my window and also the Douglas camp - I understood from a previous researcher that no camp-related material seems to have survived in the family.
However as you can see from my site www.manxnotebook.com I've collected the various stories found in the UK and IoM national archives but haven't so far searched local papers other than the Manx.
Please eiother PM me or via my web site contact.

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Isle of Man / Re: WWI and WWII internees
« on: Saturday 11 June 22 08:07 BST (UK)  »
need to correct his departure date from Knockaloe - it was August not Sept (I misread my database) - the ICRC card gives some additional information from which it appears he was interned probably by early December but was released following the Kitchener directive that released most who could be vouched for by employers etc but was reinterned following the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915, he was briefly held in Handforth (near Manchester) before being transferred to Knockaloe where he remained until late August 1919

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Isle of Man / Re: John James Caine (1858 _?1928)
« on: Friday 10 June 22 11:49 BST (UK)  »
the Douglas was a paddle steamer of the IoM steam packet co - see photo on my site www.manxnotebook.com/maritime/iomspco/dougls2.htm so he would be living on Island with shifts on board

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Isle of Man / Re: Any ideas
« on: Friday 10 June 22 11:43 BST (UK)  »
the dress looks post ww1 ?1920 - was there no information re photographer printed on back of photo - certainly prewar Walton had his name + address at bottom of photo

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Isle of Man / Re: WWI and WWII internees
« on: Thursday 09 June 22 17:05 BST (UK)  »
does the information fit in with what you know about a Johann Kuss - as you can see from my web site I've researched all the accounts I can find in the public domain - do you have access to any letters emanating from Knockaloe (or any other camp - as it would appear from his PoWIB number (see my site for info re this) that he was interned before the end of 1914 - possibly one of the London camps).

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Isle of Man / Re: WWI and WWII internees
« on: Thursday 09 June 22 10:24 BST (UK)  »
In my data base for Knockaloe I have a Johann Kuss - in 1st Red Cross record age 39 born Schonenbach + noted with UK address 49 Gordon Road Strood - he was given Knockaloe camp # 12849 and released 23 Sept 1919 - ie at very end of the camp's life which indicates he was successful in his appeal not to be deported (see my internment pages on www.manxnotebook.com) - he probably arrived at Knockaloe on 22/23 July 1915 and was in camp 3 compound 2 probably initially hut 2a or 2b as these seemed to be allocated in sequence, he would appear to be in the 3rd tranche of arrivals to this camp which opened early July 1915 - he would be one of a party of some 300 transferred from camps in England as more internees were being concentrated in the two IoM camps.

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Isle of Man / Re: John James Caine (1858 _?1928)
« on: Wednesday 08 June 22 19:41 BST (UK)  »
I have a fam tree for the Greg(g)or family of Peel - see www.manxnotebook.com/famhist/families/greggor.htm
I think given the Peel connection that J J Caine's parents are John Cain + elizth garrett m Kirk German(ie Peel)  18551229
and Emily is dau of Benjamin Gregor + Ann Cringal

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