ELIZABETH MYLREA als SHIMMIN Will 1729 Malew

From Summary of Wills, A Manx Notebook

dated 20 aug 1729; Fildraw; Deed of Gift to dau Issable Quackin als Mylrea

NOTES

  1. Fildraw
  2. also referred to as Bess
  3. Married John Mylrea 1686; six children: Elizabeth (married Thomas Norris) born 1686, Charles (married Margaret Kewley?) b1687, Thomas (married Jony Kinley) b1689, Ann (married Thomas Cain) b1694, Cath (unmarried) b1697, Isable (married Thomas Quackin, Robert Shimmin) b1701
  4. Husband John died 1727
  5. An apparently fractured family, with pressing financial issues over several generations
  6. There is much about the Malew Mylreas of the 1600s and early 1700s that does not hang together so extreme caution must be exercised
  7. For further insights into the Malew Mylreas, please refer to Mylreas in Ballaquaile and Fildraw

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