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Blue70
08-31-2009, 08:21 PM
A lot of people from the Isle Of Man settled in Liverpool I have great grandparents who came here in the 1900s. They could speak Manx Gaelic the language was more common than it is today. Manx people's surnames have similar origins to the Irish surnames but with some peculiarities. The Gaelic Mac pre-fixes were dropped off over time but most surnames retain the "K" or "C" or "Q" sound from the "C" of the Mac:-

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/fnames/sn1881.htm


Col
Waterways
08-31-2009, 10:29 PM
Lots of Liverpool people have settled in the Isle of Man. Dougls has been said to be a suburb of Liverpool.
Blue70
08-31-2009, 11:10 PM
I know some of my family went over to live there. The Isle Of Man has always had links to Liverpool.

Col
wsteve55
08-31-2009, 11:27 PM
Hi Blue,
no surprise about the links, as I.O.M. is only"down the road" as it were! Like the avatar. :nod:
George
08-31-2009, 11:50 PM
The Isle Of Man has always had links to Liverpool.

Col

Thats true...I worked on the Tynwald for 3 years. :rolleyes:

My... cannot understand why they sold that ship off? twas the fastest in the fleet at the time.
Blue70
09-01-2009, 12:32 AM
Hi Blue,
no surprise about the links, as I.O.M. is only"down the road" as it were! Like the avatar. :nod:

Still waiting for The La's second album...

Col
wsteve55
09-01-2009, 12:47 AM
Still waiting for The La's second album...

Col

Longer wait forecast,I think! :nod:
Waterways
09-01-2009, 09:18 AM
Thats true...I worked on the Tynwald for 3 years. :rolleyes:

My... cannot understand why they sold that ship off? twas the fastest in the fleet at the time.

They were moving over to ro-ro car ferry ships. All, or most, of IoM ships were turbines, which were fast but expensive to run. They only went top speed when full as it was too expensive in fuel to maintain top speed with half a ferry load. Tynwald was 27 years old when scrapped.