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On 21 October 1805, the combined fleets of France and Spain met the Royal Navy off Cape Trafalgar. Manx sailors were there — because the herring fleet had trained them, because the Irish Sea had hardened them, because the press gangs had taken them or because, impoverished with no work at home, they had volunteered for the only employer hiring. They carried Manx names — Quilliam, Cawle, Bainbridge, Christian, Crow — and served on Nelson's ships alongside men who had never heard of Tynwald Hill. The battle that would be remembered as the greatest moment in British naval history was fought, in part, by men from an island whose own parliament had been silenced and whose harbours had been left to rot.
First World War One of the ceramic First World War Centenary poppies that were laid out at the Tower of London in 2014, in a glazed wooden case with sloping top on the underside of which is laser-cut an inscription. Positioned on a shelf immediately below the First World War and Second World War memorial tablets in St Columbas Church, Arbory.
Butte, Montana, was a major copper mining centre that attracted Manx miners from the 1880s and 1890s onwards, as the decline of the Laxey and Foxdale mines on the Island drove experienced miners to seek work abroad. The site, described as "the richest hill on earth", drew Manx settlers who maintained connections with their homeland through the North American Manx Association.
Chicago attracted Manx settlers particularly after the great fire of 1871, when reconstruction work brought over many Manx builders and carpenters. By the mid-twentieth century, the city contained a substantial population of Manx descent, with about half of the North American Manx Association's Illinois membership residing in and around Chicago.
Galva, in the north-central section of Illinois, was settled by Manx farming families from 1848 and 1849 onwards, with emigrants coming particularly from Onchan, Crosby, Peel, and northern parishes such as Bride and Andreas. The Galva Manx Society held meetings attended by several hundred persons, and the settlement formed part of a broader Manx presence across the Illinois prairie farmlands.
Minnesota was among the American states where Manx emigrants settled during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The state's membership in the North American Manx Association reflects the broader pattern of Manx settlement across the upper Midwest.
A geographical and historical study of Manx emigration to America from the 17th century onward, with particular emphasis on the major settlement wave of the 1820s–1830s in Ohio. Examines the distribution of Manx-Americans, early pioneers, economic integration, and cultural preservation. Relevant to understanding the broader Atlantic diaspora and social conditions driving emigration from the Isle of Man during the pre-Revestment period.
Manx miners settled in Iowa County, Wisconsin, near Dodgeville and Mineral Point, during the lead mining boom of the mid-nineteenth century. By 1855 the community was large enough to build its own church, known as the Laxey Church, but the settlement dispersed as the shallow lead deposits were exhausted in the second half of the century.
A catalogue/index page from the Manx Society's scholarly publication of medieval documents relating to the Isle of Man, dating to 1282 (10 Edward I). The page lists Latin summaries of charters, letters patent, and agreements involving Norwegian and Scottish kings, the Monastery of Rushen, and Manx territorial holdings. Relevant to understanding pre-Revestment Manx sovereignty and ecclesiastical history.
At its height, the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles stretched from the Hebrides to Dublin. The parliament had 32 members — 16 from the island and 4 from each of four groups of Hebridean islands: Lewis, Skye, Mull, and Islay.
Representatives arrived at Tynwald by boat, crossing hundreds of miles of open water.
Mark the full extent of the sea kingdom on a large map. Mark each island group. Then calculate: how far did the Lewis representatives have to sail? What route would they take? How long in a Norse longship?
A parliament held together by ships and kinship and the authority of a king who ruled from Castle Rushen.
This rounded granite boulder was found at Bemaken Friary (see also Manx Cross 004). Its precise findspot is unknown, but a local tradition reports that it was found in a field bank on the boundary between the Friary and the neighbouring farm of Ballaclague lying to the north-west.
The stone bears a simple ogham inscription which spells the name, 'Macleog', from which the modern Manx surname 'Clague' is derived.
The stone is now displayed at the Manx Museum.
Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry VII and a key figure in the Tudor claim to the English throne. Through her marriage to Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, she was connected to the lordship of Mann, and her influence helped secure the Stanley family's position as Lords of Mann following Henry VII's accession.
Mark Hildesley (1698-1772) was Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1755 until his death. He is remembered for his promotion of the Manx language, commissioning the translation of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer into Manx. His episcopacy saw the establishment of parish libraries across the Island.
Marown is a parish in the central part of the Isle of Man. Its parish church, dedicated to St Runius, is one of the ancient keeills (chapels) of the Island, and the parish encompasses part of the central uplands and the valley of the River Dhoo.
