Greek Vase Copy
Description: Copy of a Greek vase, with the Three Legs design, brought from Cleveland, Ohio.
This object appears in The Annual Report of the Manx Museum and Ancient Monuments Trustees of 25 April 1929. The brief description states: 'Copy of Greek vase, bearing the Three Legs design on a shield. Family of the late Sheldon Kerruish, Cleveland, Ohio.'
In the 1820s the first Manx settlers began to arrive in Ohio. In 1826 the first Manx pioneers are known to have arrived in the Cleveland area. They consisted of three families —William and Eleanor Kelly, Patrick and Ann Tear, and William and Mary Kneen — with seven children between them, but many more came the next year when something like seventy families (about 200 people in all) arrived in Ohio. The following year about the same number arrived and in succeeding years others came, though apparently never in such large numbers, and it was estimated in 1883 that, in Cuyahoga County alone, the total number of survivors of the original movement with their descendants and later arrivals amounted to between 3,000 and 4,000. The city of Cleveland, Ohio is said today to have the highest concentration of Americans of Manx descent in the United States.
Measurements: overall: 23 cm x x x 11 cm
Materials: ceramic
Object name: vase
Collection: Social History Collection
ID Number: 1954-2651
Subject tags : #MM100