Fragment of electoral regulations establishing voting rights and procedures for House of Keys elections. Stipulates single votes per property owner, nomination procedures for vacancies, issuance of writs for elections, and annual summoning of the House of Keys. Appears to be part of broader electoral or constitutional reform document.
Elizabeth Christian is recorded in Charles City County, Virginia, in 1662. She was a member of the Christian family of Manx origin who settled in colonial Virginia, forming part of the wider pattern of Manx emigration to the American colonies in the seventeenth century.
Elizabeth II (1926-2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and Lord of Mann from 1952 until her death. She visited the Isle of Man on several occasions and took a personal interest in Manx affairs. The title Lord of Mann (not "Lady") was used at her express wish, maintaining the historic form of the title.
A single worked prehistoric flint found in the garden of No. 8, Elizabeth Rise, Castletown.
The artefact is a missile head of late Mesolithic (heavy bladed) character, and measures 68mm overall. The artefact is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1969-0041.
The grid reference is centred on the garden.
The site of a 19th century lead mine shaft. The 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey maps shows a wheelpit stood at SC44968972 which was connected to the shaft by pumping rods supported on piers. The wheel was powered by a leat which ran through the field numbered as Plot 1584 on the 1870 map. Associated levels are also shown at SC44788969 and SC44808967. Almost no surface remains now survive.
A post-medieval house in Castletown.
The dwelling is shown set within substantial grounds on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping of 1867. The gardens have since been developed for residential use.
The site of a steam-powered mill at Ellerslie which was probably the only one on the island in the early 19th century. The disused mill is shown on the 1958 1:10560 Ordnance Survey map.
The Manx people left. Ohio, Cleveland, Virginia — they carried their language, their constitutional instinct, their identity. A tradition connects the Virginia Christians to the same family as Illiam Dhone, and the Fincastle Resolutions of 1775 — drafted by Virginians named Christian — preceded the Declaration of Independence. Whether those Virginians came from the Isle of Man, as A.W. Moore believed, is a question the primary sources have not yet answered. What is documented is the Ohio emigration: John Sayle wrote home from Ohio in Manx Gaelic. The language lived longer in Ohio than it did on the Island. Parish registers and ship manifests trace the Ohio Manx by name, by parish, by ship. The Virginia tradition has no such paper trail.
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A legal document excerpt detailing provisions for enfeoffment and succession of trustees for Isle of Man property. The text outlines procedures for re-enfeoffment by survivors, nomination of new trustees, and constraints on the number of trustees (not to exceed three at any time).
England is the largest constituent country of the United Kingdom and the suzerain power that exercised overlordship of the Isle of Man. The relationship between the English Crown and the Island shaped Manx history profoundly, from the medieval transfer of the Lordship to the English Stanleys in 1405, through the Revestment of 1765, to the continuing constitutional relationship as a Crown Dependency.
A comprehensive doctoral thesis examining smuggling as commercial activity, social crime, and policing problem in eighteenth-century England. Covers regional variations (East Anglia, Kent, Sussex, Cornwall), the role of violence, involvement of revenue and military forces, and extends analysis to comparative contexts including the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, France, and Scandinavia. Highly relevant to understanding the smuggling trade that prompted the 1765 Revestment.
An official record of Henry Nowell (Deputy Governor) and Richard Tyldesley (Comptroller) taking possession of several parcels of land called Lough Maloe, Lough Allo, and the dry Closes/Calcotts Closes in the parish of Christ Ley Ayre. The action was performed by cutting sods of earth as a symbolic act of taking possession on behalf of their Honourable Lord.
A legal document detailing the comprehensive list of rights, revenues, lands, and jurisdictional powers appertaining to the Isle of Man, including ports, lands reclaimed from the sea, rents, court jurisdictions, and various feudal rights and revenues. The document appears to be part of a larger legal instrument defining the extent of lordship powers and property rights.
An order issued by the Bishop of Man (Derby) in 1691 regarding the administration of funds (£43 19s 10d) deposited for repairs to Peel Cathedral. The order clarifies that no interest is due from the Lord Bishop while funds remain undeployed, and authorizes the Bishop and Governor jointly to invest the money if a secure opportunity arises. Relevant to understanding ecclesiastical governance and financial administration on the Isle of Man in the late 17th century, contextualizing pre-Revestment institutional structures.
The conjectured site of a Bronze Age barrow, proposed by William Cubbon. The site was later discounted and thought to be a natural hillock. No surface evidence of a barrow has been noted here.
Letter from Charles Lutwidge to Grey Cooper at the Treasury (15 June 1770) transmitting an estimate of £155 8s for repairs to Douglas Pier following storm damage in March 1770. Lutwidge requests Treasury approval and proposes a tonnage tax on ships using the harbour to fund repairs. The estimate details costs for mason work, materials, and reconstruction of the lighthouse.
