Notes on information contributed by the Misses Taylor, Crofton, Baldhoon, Laxey, interviewed by Margaret Killip
Date(s): July 1968
Scope & Content: Miss E Taylor, retired elementary school teacher and her sister Miss Bella Taylor; Miss E Taylor's long connection with the Manx Music Festival; Laxey Village choir; Laxey Brass Bands; House built on Baljean land; Father a miner; Mother's people were Mylrea's; Moore Baljean (Moore of the Great Meadow, Castletown) inherited the farm in Lonan - built a large road bridge and the parish church; Irish labours Savage and Connors; Lime; Qualtrough the draper; Lawsons built the terrace of houses in old Laxey near the shore called Bay View Terrace; School in Agneash kept by Mrs Kinrade; Kinrades also had the Bridge Inn in Laxey; Ellen Cannan, dress maker; Brundal Farm ownership; William Cowley's milk round; The Sprogs means the goods and chattels of a property; Leza Quine's father killed in a mine accident; Cornish miners brought into work the Laxey mines; Conish and Welsh names.
Language: English
Extent: 2 pages
Item name: typescript
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: FLS T/024