Looking for help with Manx Family History Research on the Isle of Man?
These incredible memoirs have been recorded here for the descendants of the Clucas family and Kermode family of Kionslieu Farm in the Isle of Man.
The 20 page introduction was given to us around 20 years ago. Having re typed it word for word, unbelievably I received the full 100 page memoir by email the very next day! After much frustration attempting to upload the pdf files to our website I have found a solution. I’ve taken screen shots of each page and so I hope you will bear with me as I add them in sections.
Introduction to the Unfinished Memoir
And I look back to joys long fled,
..where God keeps for me
A little island in the sea.
Kionslieu is a farm near Foxdale, I.O.M. (Ellan Vannin), where my father was born, the youngest of 11 children. I started to write a memoir of the Kermodes of Kionslieu who moved there in 1881. It proved difficult to trace the family far back as they hardly ever left wills or other legal documents and did not own land until c.1800; or rather it is likely that they had owned land but this branch of the family was descended from a younger son who had not inherited from his father’s land. In the 19th century there seems to have been no shortage of money, and this branch moved from perhaps craftsmen status to landowner. Their “arrival”’ was indicated in the Directory in Wm Thwaites’ Isle of Man published in 1863, where in Marown, J Kermode was among the ‘principal landed proprietors’ and Kermode, John among “farmers”. (his father had not been mentioned in 1852)
Terence Kermode
Contents
Preface
A hand drawn plan of Kionslieu Farmyard
Introduction to the ‘Unfinished Memoirs’
Some early Clucas’s from Kionslieu, dating back to 1640
Page 18 includes: Sage married John Curphy – I believe that this is the Sage & John referred to in emails received in 2020
Useful websites to help you with genealogy research
If the ‘Kionslieu Chronicles’ inspire you to visit Kionslieu Farm Cottages and you would like help in researching your Manx family history, we have links with specialists who can help, as above & the following links should be of help.
Isle of Man Family History Society
Somewhere to stay while researching your Manx Family History?
If your looking for a place to stay on the Isle of Man while you research your family history, look no further than Kionslieu Farm Cottages.
During our time here we have welcomed Clucas’s, Kermodes, Kelly’s, Quayle’s, Clagues, Maddrell’s & Wattersons from all over the world and you can be sure of a true Manx welcome when you come to stay.