ISLE OF MAN
Shelf Mark: IM
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
Island-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes
Island wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Cheshire, Lancashire & the Isle of Man parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences & monumental inscriptions. London: SoG Enterprises, 2001. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 15, part 1: Channel Islands & the Isle of Man. London: Society of Genealogists, 2000. [TB/PR 23] SoG on-line bookshop.
Catholic missions & registers 1700-1880, vols. 1-6 & Catholic parishes in England, Wales & an atlas [RC/REG]
List of microfilms in the Manx Museum Reference Library [Photocopy] [Box 37/folder 37]
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
National Burial Index . 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
Isle of Man Church of England M(I) 1884-1964 [Mf 3396-3397]
Isle of Man Dissenters M(I) 1849-1964 [Mf 3398]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Cumberland & Northumberland Quarterly Meeting Z 1648-1837 & supplement 1653-1743, M 1650-1837 & 1656-1732, B 1656-1837 & 1651-1743 (includes the Isle of Man) [Mf 3380]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Index to monumental inscriptions published by Isle of Man FHS [IM/M 7]
Isle of Man monumental inscription [Typescript] [IM/M 1]
Memorials of “God's acre”, being monumental inscriptions in the Isle of Man, taken in the summer of 1797: Manx Society, vol. 14 [IM/M 2]
In addition to free access from within the library to census indexes on various web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
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The Isle of Man was in the province of York and the Diocese of Sodor and Man. Until the abolition of the Archdeacon’s Court in 1874, the year was divided into two parts with alternating jurisdiction of the Vicar General of the Bishop of Sodor and Man and the official of the Archdeacon of the Isle of Man. From 1874 until the end of 1884 wills were proved solely in the bishop’s consistory court. From 1885 jurisdiction was transferred to civil courts (the High Court of Justice) and records are kept in the island’s Deeds and Probate Registry.
If the deceased lived or had property outside the island the will may have been proved in the Prerogative Courts of Canterbury or York, the Chancery Court of the Archbishop of York, the Commissariot Court of Edinburgh, the Prerogative Court of Armagh or the Irish Principal Registry, the Consistory Courts of Carlisle, Richmond (Western Deaneries) or Chester or, since 1858, in the Principal Probate Registry in London.
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved at the Principle Probate Registry 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com (formerly 1837online)
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Archdeaconry of the Isle of Man
Calendars of wills 1631-1800 & calendars of wills & administrations 1800-84 [Microfilm] [Mf 774]
Diocese of the Bishop of Sodor and Man
Book of wills with inventories & probate accounts 1713-16 [Microfilm] [Mf 776]
Calendars of wills 1659-64, 1668-80, 1697-1809, calendar of wills & administrations 1800-84 & High Court of Justice 1885-1949 [Microfilm] [Mf 775]
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the Isle of Man. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Andreas | Arbory | Baldwin | Ballaugh | Ballure | Braddan | Bride | Castletown | Cronk y Voddy | Crosby | Dalby | Dhoon | Douglas | Foxdale | German | Jurby | Kirk Arbory | Kirk Braddan | Kirk Bride | Kirk German | Kirk Lonan | Kirk Maughold | Kirk Michael | Kirk Patrick | Kirk Rushen | Kirk Santan | Laxey | Lezayre | Lonan | Malew | Marown | Maughold | Michael | Onchan | Patrick | Peel | Port St. Mary | Ramsey | Rushen | Santan | St. Marks | Sulby
