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Isle of Man / Re: Gibbon MacKewley of Ballanard ..... was in the Keys in AD 1502
« on: Monday 15 April 24 22:33 BST (UK)  »
btw he would have inherited even tho under age - but an overseer would be appointed - at age of 14 he would have the right to choose another overseer -His mother would continue to exercise her widowright. Book yourself a holiday on island and look at the original records in the Museum reading room!

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Isle of Man / Re: Gibbon MacKewley of Ballanard ..... was in the Keys in AD 1502
« on: Monday 15 April 24 22:27 BST (UK)  »
there are many lib asseds between 1511 and a century later -
 I selected the most readable one to post but there are probably enough surviving annual lib asseds to get a complete succession of holders of Ballanard -
Mark was certainly installed along with his mother  - Michael was probably an uncle as shown in the quoted excerpt there are McKewley's elsewhere in the same treen (ie near neighbours)
but if Mark died without issue then the next brother in order would inherit - as the parish regs haven't survived difficult to know -
 there were at least 2 Johns in sequence - they are held by Manx Museum I photo some of thos in 2nd half of 16th C  a decade ago for another purpose - not sure what were photo'd by mormons

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Isle of Man / Re: Gibbon MacKewley of Ballanard ..... was in the Keys in AD 1502
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 10:48 BST (UK)  »
Ballanard/Ballanird is in the treen of Tromode (Tremot in early records) in the parish of Onchan
in 1511 Mark McKewley was paying the Lords rent of 16s 4d (noted with surety of Michael McKewley) which suggests he was underage or young
- this is the earliest record though there may be some of the late 1490s but I'm not sure these include Onchan
see www.manxnotebook.com for explanation of property records etc
by 1600 John Kewley with mother was paying the same rent
in 1578 a John McKewley with mother was paying rent - I attach a photo of entry
you can trace the holder of this farm via Lib assed (possibly filmed under manorial records by Mormons)

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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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