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Scope and Content

This item comprises a black binder marked 'Martins Bank Limited' containing 38 sheets bound together, with notes by Harold Blundell on the Isle of Man.

  • Sheet 1 contains a list of early printed works on Manx folklore and customs published c 1703-1929.
  • Sheets 2-3 contain the music and lyrics to the 'Manx Fishermen's Evening Hymn' by William Henry Gill (1839-1923).
  • Sheets 4-5 entitled 'Visits' contain notes on the Beggars' House and other locations.
  • Sheet 6 contains notes on Manx agriculture.
  • Sheet 7 contains notes on beggars and vagabonds.
  • Sheet 8 contains notes on local characters.
  • Sheet 9 contains notes on the island's churches.
  • Sheet 10 contains notes on the government, administration and courts of the island.
  • Sheet 11 contains notes on the history of the Isle of Man c 1066-1406.
  • Sheet 12 contains notes on the characteristics of the Manx people.
  • Sheets 13-15 contain notes on Manx folklore and fairies.
  • Sheets 16-17 contain notes on Manx homelife and the island's houses and other buildings.
  • Sheet 18 contains notes on Manx names.
  • Sheets 19-20 contain notes on the economy, specifically the mining industry.
  • Sheet 21 contains notes on the Isle of Man's rivers.
  • Sheet 22 contains notes on smuggling.
  • Sheet 23 contains notes on the Stanley family of the Isle of Man.
  • Sheet 24 contains geographical and historical notes on the parish of Lezayre.
  • Sheet 25 contains historical notes on the parish of St Michael's.
  • Sheet 26 contains historical notes on the parish of Garff.
  • Sheet 27 contains notes on the town of Onchan and surrounding area.
  • Sheet 28 contains historical notes on the island's capital, Douglas.
  • Sheet 29 contains geographical and historical notes on the village of Baldwin West and East.
  • Sheets 30-31 contain geographical and historical notes on the parish of Rushen.
  • Sheets 32-33 contain geographical and historical notes on the parish of Malew.
  • Sheet 34 contains historical notes on the parish of Castletown and Castle Rushen.
  • Sheet 35 contains geographical and historical notes on the parish of Rushen.
  • Sheet 36 contains geographical and historical notes on the parish of Glenfaba.
  • Sheet 37 contains geographical and historical notes on the parish of Peel.
  • Sheet 38 contains geographical and historical notes on the parish of Raad Mooan Manachan.

In the back of the file are two loose sheets of headed paper bearing the logo of A. Stanley Davies, Celtic booksellers, of Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, containing handwritten lists of reference works about Manx history and folklore.