Edward Christian of Bemahague, of the Conchan branch of the Christians.

Bemahague is an estate on the rising ground above Douglas in the parish of Conchan, in the treen of Tremsare, where Edmund McGawne was the tenant in 1511. It is now Government House. A guidebook of the early nineteenth century called it a very delightful summer residence with a commanding view of land and sea, and allowed that the building had no architectural beauties, having been reared without a plan and enlarged at different times to gratify a whim or to suit convenience.

The Conchan burial registers place an Edward Christian of Bemaughag there in the eighteenth century. He died on 1 March 1790, aged fifty-six. The same list records others of the connection: an Edward Christian, husband of Margaret Christian alias Gell, who died on 6 January 1778 aged sixty-seven, and a Matthias Christian who died on 1 January 1772 aged forty.

The house did not stay with the family. By the early nineteenth century Bemahague belonged to the Heywoods, and John Joseph Heywood, born in 1789 and died in 1855, was its proprietor and one of Her Majesty's Deemsters. Joseph Jefferson of Bemahague was treasurer of the Manx Society in the 1860s.

Bemahague keeps a place in Manx folklore as well. The tale of the Mooayer ny Booiagh, the begrudged consent, is told of a servant girl there who was sent to Glen Crutchery Well for a can of water before daylight, and met the old man of Glen Crutchery on the way.