What is your I.O.M. connection, I am a member of the I.O.M. FHS, are you?
I get the magazine quarterly, it has quiet a lot of interesting articles.
I am a bit stuck with that side, have got back quite a way with the Quayle name but my G G Granfather died about 1872 aged only about 29 and his wife and children left the island and came to Barrow in Furness (which in that era was a boom town and recruited miners from all over the place, Cornwall, I.O.M., etc) I really need to send for his death certificate to see what he died of - my mum always said it was a mining accident. I know about his parents and siblings and my G G Grandmother from arriving in Barrow.
I have a book that was written by George E Quayle titled 'Legends of a Lifetime - Aspects of Manx Life' He was supposed to be a bit of a tall story writer (which is strange because my maiden name was Ritson - don't know if I am related to 'The biggest liar' Ritson, they still hold a competition at Wasdale every year for the title.)
In the book by G Quayle he relates many stories of people in the Isle of Man from the late 1800's, my mum met him as an old man about 1980. George was the son of my G G Grandfather's brother, I read the book hoping to find some titbits about my ancestors but he mostly talks about his mother's side.
If you give me your Manx names I will look through and see if there are any anecdotes about them.
Thanks Keith.
Carol
I really cannot keep up with your responses, I can see I am going to be busy for a while typing these answers into a timeline.
Thank you again Keith.
