The cost to Mann was not only in the people it lost but in what those people took with them. The parishes were not just losing population — they were losing the families who had served in the Keys, administered justice in the courts, kept the registers, maintained the chapels, and carried the language. When the Corletts of Orrisdale chartered a ship to Ohio, a family that had farmed that land for generations was uprooting itself. When the Cannells and the Sayles boarded the Ocean, they were carrying the island's religious culture across the Atlantic and leaving a gap in the parishes that could not be filled by people who had not grown up in those parishes, who did not know the names of the fields, who could not speak the language of the wells and the keeills and the calendar customs.
William Brew was a Manx emigrant who settled in the Cleveland, Ohio area during the nineteenth century, forming part of the significant Manx community that established itself in the industrial cities of the American Midwest.
William Christian is recorded in Northampton County, Virginia, in 1652. He was a member of the Christian family of Manx origin who settled in colonial Virginia, forming part of the early wave of Manx emigration to the American colonies.
William K. Corlett was a Manx emigrant who settled in the Cleveland, Ohio area during the nineteenth century. The Corlett family was a well-known Manx surname, and William formed part of the significant Manx community in the American Midwest.
