Notes on information contributed by J.W. Teare, Gollane, Sandygate, Jurby
Date(s): 1948
Scope & Content: A number of the stories and information were told to the writer by the late Will Wade. Introduction; Chapels; Preachers and evangelists; Oie'l Verrey; Sandygate chapel; Camp meetings on Cronk Sumark; Lhen chapel; Rush candles; Sunday school outings; Land etc - Boundary hedges; Ploughing winter wheat; "A buggil" ; "a braythakh"; horse mills; "damuth"; Sod drains; The mhellia; Ringing the bell; Turf; Sheep stealing; Gallows in each Parish; Fairs - Ladys Fair - first Wednesday in April for hiring female servants; Trinity Fair held on June 3rd; Midsummer; Hollantide and Michaelmas Fairs for buying and selling stock etc; Ale tents; Crofts; Curraghs; Selling butter and eggs in Ramsey; Thatching; Crofters; stone-breakers; Postman; Fishermen; Food; Keeping a goat with the sheep; Quaaltagh in July; Poor meadow; Lhen Trench; Money kept in "Long stawghin"; Time to sew corn when blackthorn in flower; clay; Characters - tramps and beggars; School; Paying the schoolmaster; Sandygate school; The 3 "R"'s; Buildings - sod houses; Dubs; Courting; Pinpound; Man-traps in orchards; Inns and ale houses; The chiollagh; Customs; Fairies; Herbs; Old Christmas; Manx weather calendar; Trammon trees; superstitions; hatching goose eggs; cures and common practices.
Language: English
Extent: 21 pages
Item name: typescript
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: FLS T.J.W./A