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. It came well down the order. The standard survey of Manx settlement in the United States puts Ohio first and Illinois next, with Wisconsin some distance behind, then the mining areas of Montana, Wyoming and Arizona. Minnesota is named among the other states of any significance in the Middle West, with Iowa and Nebraska, alongside a few in the north-east, namely Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut, and Utah, Colorado and the District of Columbia.

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.

An Isle of Man Steam Railway locomotive.

The three legs of Mann, the Island's triskelion emblem.

A Manx warrior of the Norse-Gaelic age, in mail and helm with sword and shield.

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), mother of Henry VII, and by her marriage to Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, Countess of Richmond and Derby. Her Manx significance is her husband's. The Island was his, and the Manx writers who mention her do so in passing, as the mother whose son's crown followed from Richard III's designs on the Stanleys. The standard nineteenth-century life of her, Caroline Halstead's of 1839, mentions the Island only casually, at three pages of the whole book, and the Manx bibliographers note the fact when they list it.

Margaret Murray was a Manx woman remembered for her knowledge of the Manx language and traditions.

The case is known from the Lord's own court books, the Liber Scaccarii and the Liber Placitorum for 1616 and 1617, which are held by Manx National Heritage and were read for this site from the FamilySearch images in September 2026. It does not appear in Train's chapter on Manx superstitions or in Moore's Folk-lore of the Isle of Man, both of which print later and milder cases from the church records. Margaret yne Quane and her son John Cubon lived at Lambfell in the parish of Kirk German, in Glenfaba sheading. The word yne in her name is Manx inneen, daughter, so she carried her birth family's name through her marriage, as married women in these books commonly did. Her husband is not named anywhere in the record. John Cubon held a four shilling share of the quarterland of Lambfell in the 1617 setting roll, alongside a senior John Cubon and two John Cotters, with a share in a mill and a share of the waste, so he was an adult landholder rather than the child of the later published accounts. The record opens on 20 November 1616 with a memorandum in the Liber Scaccarii. Margaret Quane of Kirk German had been committed to prison in Castle Rushen for charms used and practised by her tending to sorcery and witchcraft, as appeared by the examinations of divers persons upon oath. She was now bailed at the instance of two neighbours, William Stevenson and Patrick Quaile, each bound in ten pounds that she would appear at the next Head Court of gaol delivery and abide the censure of the law. On 22 December two more neighbours, Thomas Kelly and Hugh Cayne, entered the same bond for John Cubon, son of the aforesaid Margaret Quane. On 28 December both were sent back to prison by the officers of the spiritual court, which had by its own law and trial found them guilty of witchcraft and sorcery. On 28 February 1617 the church delivered them to the Lord's gaol by its censure. The procedure is the one the Spiritual Laws prescribed, and which Moore printed in 1891: presentment to the Chapter Quest, the Bishop's prison while a jury of the parish inquired, and delivery to the Lord's gaol and court if a notorious fault was proved. On 2 June 1617 a list of the names of the twenty-four Keys was drawn up and bound in with the bail entries. The next day the Head Court of gaol delivery sat at Castle Rushen before Captain Robert Molyneux, the Comptroller John Halsall and the Deemsters Thomas Sansbury and Ewan Christian. Sir William Crowe the Vicar General, Sir John Cosnahan and Sir Hugh Cannell the Register showed their proceedings in writing, which were read openly in the face of the court. The Deemsters, howbeit, for their better satisfaction to have a more formal and judicial trial according to law, advised with the twenty-four Keys, who consulted that Margaret should have a further public trial by another jury. A jury of twelve was empanelled from every sheading but Rushen, with Thomas Quirk sitting for German. She was brought to the bar and put herself to the jury, who found her guilty of sorcery and witchcraft, and the Deemsters pronounced that she should be taken by the Coroner of Glenfaba to the place of execution and there burned till the life departed from the body. At the same court John Cubon appeared, put himself to the trial of the jury now empanelled in his own right, was found guilty, and was sentenced in the same form. The record calls him plainly her son and gives no age. The man who suspected them is named in the Glenfaba pleas of May 1617, where the moar of Kirk German presented the bloodsheds of the parish. Phillip Costen had drawn blood from Phillip Cubon, from John Cubon and from Margaret Quane. A note in the margin releases him by consent of the court of all the bloodwipes upon the Cubons and yne Quane, because he avouched that he did it in defence of his life, or to avoid other harm that might befall him by their witchcraft, wherewith they were by him suspected and against some of them lately proved. The court recorded the act and the reason given for it, and accepted them. It did not record a belief. Rhys, collecting on the Island about 1890, was told that if you could draw blood, however little, from a witch or from one with the evil eye, they lost the power of harming you, and that formerly this was sometimes acted upon, the man who fancied himself in danger sidling up to another on leaving church and inflicting a slight scratch. The 1617 entry and the 1890 belief are set side by side here, nearly three centuries apart, and the reader can judge the resemblance. The books follow John Cubon to the end. The Receiver's Kirk German fines for 1617 leave his line blank, with the note that his goods had fallen to the Lord. In the Glenfaba pleas of October 1617 a Thomas Cubon sued John Cotter for the four shilling parcel and lost, because Cotter had bought the ground in the Lord's right, to whom it fell due by the death of John Cubon, convicted for witchcraft. The Kirk German setting quest of 1619, sworn by four neighbours, two of whom had been in the case from the start, struck him from Lambfell for that the ground by his execution in the law fell due to the Lord, and entered Cotter as tenant on a composition of twenty shillings. For Margaret the record ends with the sentence. She held no land, so no fiscal or manorial entry had cause to name her again, and her execution is inferred from the sentence and from her son's, not documented. The date and place of either execution are recorded nowhere. Neither the temporal books nor the recited church proceedings name any act, victim or harm, only charms tending to sorcery at her committal and sorcery and witchcraft at the verdict.

The site of a post-medieval corn mill.

Marion Shimmin (born Marion Fallows, 1879 - 29 June 1942) was a trained music teacher and social reformer from Manchester who settled in Peel after marrying Christopher R. Shimmin in 1906. Elected unopposed to the House of Keys for Peel in 1933 following her husband's death, she became the first woman member of the Manx parliament's lower chamber, serving on fisheries, health, insurance and education committees until her death, while also collecting Manx folk stories, language and music for Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh.

Sir Mark Cavendish (born 21 May 1985 in Douglas) is a former professional cyclist and one of the greatest sprinters in the sport's history, who joined his local Douglas cycling club at age nine. Riding for HTC-Highroad and other teams from 2007, he won the men's road race at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships, and across a career from 2007 to 2024 he claimed a record 35 Tour de France stage victories, surpassing Eddy Merckx's long-standing total of 34. He was knighted for his services to cycling.

Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1755 until his death in 1772, under whom the Bible was first put into Manx. He came to the see by an unusual route. The patronage lay with the Duke of Atholl, who waived his right of nomination and referred the choice to the bench of English bishops, asking them to point out a man worthy of wearing the mitre which Bishop Wilson had adorned. They recommended Dr Mark Hildesley, rector of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, unanimously. The sources do not agree on the date of his consecration: one gives 25 March 1755, another 22 April of that year. He knew what he was following. On succeeding Wilson he wrote that he was aware it is sometimes said that a person succeeds with disadvantage to an office which has been filled by a predecessor of note, and went on in that vein at some length. The translation was his work. Manx people had no part of the Bible in their own tongue. The Gospels of Mark, Luke and John and the Acts of the Apostles had been translated in Wilson's time but never published, and the Gospel of Matthew was printed in 1748. Hildesley divided the remaining task among his clergy, and while it went forward he set some of them to translate the Prayer Book as well. The Prayer Book appeared in 1765 and the Bible in 1775, three years after his death. He was at Ramsey for one of the more dramatic days of the century. When Thurot's squadron was taken in the bay in 1760, the people of the west side could hear the guns, and a Manx ballad has the Bishop with all his train among those listening. A piece of the Belle Isle's bowsprit is said to have come ashore on the Bishop's own ground. Hildesley wrote afterwards to Dr Monsey, dryly correcting the accounts then circulating: they might as well have given the bishop the honour of having preached Thurot's funeral sermon, since he did preach at Ramsey on the very day the body was supposed to have been buried there. His own family had been clergy before him. He was the son of Mark Hildesley, rector of Murston and afterwards of Witton in Huntingdonshire, and grandson of a Counsellor Mark Hildesley. His mother Avis bore sixteen children who lived to be baptised. His wife Elizabeth, born Stoker, died on 27 February 1763. The monument at Kirk Michael records his own death on 2 December 1772, in the seventeenth year of his consecration, aged seventy-four.

A post-medieval house in Castletown.

Central parish of the Isle of Man, lying between Douglas and Peel. Marown formed one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Island. In the eighteenth century it belonged to Middle Sheading, but the Common Law Courts Act of 1796 altered the arrangement and placed German, Patrick and Marown together in the Sheading of Glanfaba. The parish contained a number of substantial farms and estates. Robertson’s survey listed Ballakilly, the Gharth, Ballahutchin, Ballaquiney Moar, Ballaquiney Beg, Ballanicholas, Corvalley and Ballacallin among the principal properties. Ballakilly was then associated with the Rev. Thomas Christian. Thomas Christian was also responsible for one of the earliest substantial works printed in Manx. Robertson recorded Paradise Lost translated into Manx by the Rev. Thomas Christian of Ballakilly, Kirk Marown, probably published in Douglas in the 1790s. Marown had its own fair in February. Robertson’s parish-register summary recorded twenty-four baptisms and eleven burials in 1792, twenty-nine baptisms and twelve burials in 1793, and similar totals during the following years, although marriages were omitted from the return. The parish lay across the central route between Douglas, St John’s and Peel. Its position also brought it into the landscape of St Trinian’s at Greeba, where the ruined chapel became attached to one of the best-known Buggane traditions on the Island.

The modern Marown parish church. Marown parish, dedicated to St Runius (also called Ronan or Ma-Ronan), is the only landlocked parish on the Isle of Man. The present ("new") St Runius church, in the centre of the parish, replaced the older medieval church (Old St Runius) as the parish church in 1853. The land for the new church was donated in 1844 by Phillip Killey, a Douglas brewery owner; Tynwald approved the scheme in 1847; the foundation stone was laid by Bishop Auckland in 1849; and the church was consecrated in 1859. It was designed by architect Ewan Christian in a standard cruciform plan with a bellcote and north porch, built of slate with granite dressings, and has a plastered nave with lancet windows. It contains two stained-glass windows by William Glasby, said to be the only examples of his work in a Manx church. A vestry was added in 1899, the church was reroofed in 1958, and an organ was installed in 1959. The displaced Old St Runius church was thereafter used as a mortuary chapel, fell into disrepair, and was restored by volunteers before reopening for services on 9 August 1959.

A post-medieval cemetery in Marown parish.

Sports Field dedicated to those who served their countries during two World Wars. First and Second World Wars. Opened by Harley Cunningham, who donated the field, in 1946.

A post-medieval millpond dam in Marown parish.

A post-medieval millpond dam in Marown parish.