Wills & Deeds

Legal documents are gold dust to the historian because such reliable information - the maiden name of a wife, the names of the surviving children, the extent of a family's possessions - was once not available from any other source. Until the census collections of 1841, they were the ONLY source of data beyond a birth, marriage or burial registers. Follow the link to the Index of Mylrea Wills or the Index of Mylrea Deeds to find a chronological listing of the documents relating to the Mylreas, as well as transcriptions of the documents.

The Manx Manorial Roll site is devoted principally to Manx property records (Kirk Michael is the main focus, but early Ballaugh entries have also been transcribed) from the 16th century and a marvellous source of genealogical information for the family historian. The originals of all of these documents reside mostly in the Manx National Library & Archives or the Public Records Office of the Isle of Man. As ever, Frances Coakley's A Manx Note Book and Brian Lawson's BMD (now found on Ian Radcliffe's site) are invaluable sources of all kinds of Manx documents.

I've added genealogical NOTES to most transcriptions to locate the individual in his/her family cluster, past and present. The purpose of the notes is to provide a "network of knowledge" for Mylrea family historians so that they can get on with creating new intelligence rather than ploughing across fields already worked to death.

Updates

NOV 2024 NEW

Mylrea of Cronk Urleigh is a narrative about a short-lived offshoot of the Ballacooiley Mylreas. John Mylrea, second son of a second son, went to Michael in the early 1800s. His son John prospered but the "star of the show" in many respects was his grand daughter Mary Ann who ran the family estate and more besides

May 2024 REVISION

When Nigel Crowe died, so too did his wonderful manxroots website. I have been working my way through many of the early Braddan wills & documents on the mylrea website to remove the links to Crowe's site and replaced them with text.