Progenitors of Three Lines of Immigrants to the U.S.

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A number of Grimshaws lived on the Isle of Man in the late 1600s, 1700s and 1800s. Earlier records of these Grimshaws are primarily from Kirk Michael, and later records are mostly from Ballaugh. The earliest record located thus was for Essabell Grimshaw, who was a christened in 1643. Her father was indicated as Thomas Grimshaw, who may have been the original Grimshaw immigrant (presumably from Lancashire). At least three Grimshaws have been recorded as emigrants to the U.S. from the Isle of Man. By the early 1900s few if any Grimshaws apparently remained on the Isle of Man.

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Grimshaw Croft in Ballaugh

Deed of Sale of Cronk Breck to Thomas Grimshaw by William Kneen

The Dressmakers of Ballaugh, Who Met in Cronk Breck

Two Contemporaneous Grimshaw Families in Ballaugh 

John and Thomas Grimshaw Voted for a New Church in 1830

William, John, Philip and (Maybe) Thomas Grimshaw, Manx Immigrants to the U.S.

John Grimshaw Book Sent from New York to the Isle of Man

Grimshaw Family Information Provided by Dr. J. F. Craine

Records of Wills from Isle of Man Family History Website

Grimshaw Family Lines Identified for the Isle of Man

Hypothesized Family of Origin for John and Thomas Grimshaw

What Does The Village of Ballaugh Look Like?

Kirk Michael and Ballaugh Old Church

Where Is the Isle of Man, and Where Is Ballaugh?

Published Descriptions of Ballaugh

Thomas Grimshaw Was a Casualty in the Loss of the Herring Fleet in 1787

References

Thanks go to Dr. J. Ffynlo Craine of the Isle of Man for providing much of the information that made this webpage possible.

Grimshaw Croft, now named Cronk Breck, is located in Ballaugh. This dwelling was apparently occupied by Thomas and Catherine (Cowley) Grimshaw. If so, the three (and possibly four) Grimshaw emigrants from the Isle of Man to the U.S. were probably born in this house. Photos and maps of the home are shown below, courtesy of Dr. Ffynlo Craine.

The location of the former Grimshaw's Croft in Ballaugh is shown below. The map is from Dr. F.J. Craine. The pink arrow shows Cronk Breck, which was known as Grimshaw’s Croft in early 19th century. The area shown is approximately 400m square and is taken from 1870 survey.

Dr. Craine has also provided satellite imagery of Ballaugh, which is shown below. Cronk Breck is under the "+" sign in the center of both photos. A smaller scale view is provided first, with Cronk Breck indicated ont he west side of Ballaugh. A larger scale view is shown below.

Source: http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=54.311244&lon=-4.544892&z=19.3&r=0&src=msl 

A deed of sale, executed in April 1787, of Cronk Breck to Thomas Grimshaw by William Kneen has been provided by Dr. Craine. A transcription is shown below. It would be reasonable to conjecture that Thomas bought the land from a relative, since Thomas married a Catherine Cowley, and William Kneen's wife was "Catherine Kneen otherwise Cowley".

Know all men by these presents that I William Kneen of the parish of KK Michael by and with the joint consent and approbation of Catharine Kneen otherwise Cowley my wife for and in consideration of the sum of Forty pounds and fifteen shillings currency of this Isle already paid & satisfied unto me by at and from the hands of Thomas Grimshaw of the parish of Ballaugh. Have given granted alienated passed over Sold and by these presents do give grant alienate pass over and for ever absolutely sell unto him the said Thomas Grimshaw his Heirs Executors administrators and assigns all and singular that parcel of our Estate of Land situate in the parish of Ballaugh called Cronk Brack being of Squeen's Quarterland & of such Lord's Rent as the Setting Quest shall adjust thereon and adjoining the Rent of William Corlet of Ballaterson beg on the North, the Highway leading to Ballaugh church on the East, the rent of Robert Gawn on the South and the Rents of John Kneen and John Corlet on the West. To have and to hold unto him, the said Thomas Grimshaw his Heirs and Assigns the said premisses with its ways waters watercourses Easements liberties Profits Issues Hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging for ever as aforesaid commencing from the date hereof yielding and paying the Lord's Rent of the premisses with all Boons suits and services annually incumbent thereon. And I the said William Kneen and Catherine Kneen my said wife do hereby covenant & agree by and with the said Thomas Grimshaw that we our Heirs and Assigns shall awarrant maintain & defend the said premisses and its appurtenances in the peaceable possession of him the said purchaser his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns against the right Title Challenge and Demand of all and every person or persons whomsoever to the same. And for the faithful and true performance of all and singular this Deed of Sale I the said William Kneen and Catherine Kneen otherwise Cowley my wife do bind and oblige ourselves our Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns in the penalty of Eightyone pounds and ten shillings currency of this Isle. As witness our subscriptions this 10th day of April 1787

Wm Kneen my X

Catherine Kneen my X

Signed and delivered in presence of

Patrick Cannel my X

Dan Stephen

19th April 1787

Wm Kneen and Cath. Kneen the executing parties to the before written Deed of sale acknowledged the same to be their Act & Deed and to be paid the consideration money.

Robt Farrant

We the Setting Quest of the parish of Ballaugh do settle and proportion on the premisses mentioned in the beforegoing deed of sale to bear and pay the yearly lords Rent of one shilling and eight pence. As witness our subscription this 27th day of April 1787.

William Corlett

John Craine

John Corlett

William Kewley

At a Court Baron holden at KK Michael for the parishes of Michael Ballaugh and Jurby the 4th day of May 1787

The beforewritten Deed of sale being acknowledged before the High Bailiff of Peel and now openly published in Court and no Objection offered against it the same is therefore allowed of for and in the name and behalf of the most noble John Duke of Athol Earl Strange Lkord of mann & the Isles &c and confirmed by this Court.

?? Heywood

An interesting aspect of the history of Grimshaw Croft (a.k.a. Cronk Breck) related to the Dressmakers of Ballaugh is shown below.

THE DRESSMAKERS OF BALLAUGH

Now that we are so used to buying our clothes from department or chain stores or from catalogues, probably made in distant parts of the world such as Taiwan or Korea, and from new materials like nylon, polyester, viscose, rayon etc. we might forget how they were hand-made at the beginning of the century, either at home or by dressmakers.

Ballaugh, in the early nineteenth century, was famous for its dressmakers, and in particular for a group who met in Cronk Breck, a house up a narrow lane on the opposite side of the A10 road, facing the former Rectory. This, in 1910, was owned by a Craine family, two of whom were women missionaries. While they were away they rented the house to Flo and Kitty Quayle, who lived at "Squeen", not to be confused with Mwyllin Squeen (Squeen Mill) close by on the other side of the river.

The group consisted of six or seven women and girls, headed by Etty Wade (Hester or Hetty) who were trained, two at a time, over a period of years, for most of them just to be able to make their own dresses, others to provide garments for people who brought their own material to be made up to designs they had chosen. They came from all parts of the Island, many from Peel, because they appreciated the workmanship provided by the Cronk Breck group. It was said of them that the sewing was so neat that you could wear the garments inside out! In contrast to more organised apprentice dressmakers, Cronk Breck girls were not expected to do any cleaning - someone else was employed to do that, because it would make their hands too rough for sewing! Cronk Breck has been added to and extended but in those days there were two rooms downstairs and two up, with a kitchen which ran right along the back. One of the rooms was the cutting room where Flo Quayle, the tailoress, kept the stock of materials, measured with a yard stick, cut out the garments from illustrations chosen by her clients, and where fittings took place. The other downstairs room was where the seamstresses worked, doing the more tedious jobs such as over-sewing from left to right to avoid the thread getting in the way, tidying the seams on the Singer treadle sewing machine, lacking the garment together for the first fitting, sewing on buttons and hooks and eyes, making 'dress protectors'. Among the more specialised jobs were faggotting, whipping, rouleauing, smocking, pin tucking, making plackets and gores, pleating and making buttons, and for very special evening gowns, sewing on sequins and beads.. They would work with oil lamps after dark and in winter, from 8.30 in the morning until 6.30 with one hour for lunch. Materials in those days were, amongst others, velvet, velvetine, crêpe de chine, satin, voile, foulard, seersucker, gingham, piqué, Viyella, all kinds of woollen materials, many woven from Manx wool in Tynwald mills, and after the 1914/18 war, parachute silk at 1/- a yard.

Of the six who worked at Cronk Breck, the head of the group was Hester (Hettv or Etty) Wade who was Johnny Wade's daughter and lived with him at Dollagh Beg Farm, a little way down river. When the group dispersed in the 1920's she continued dressmaking at home until, in 1926, she went to Liverpool to look after her brother. There were two sisters in the group, Florence (Flo) and Catherine Therese (Kitty) Quayle, daughters of Johnna who lived in Squeen, a farmhouse across the river from Cronk Breck. Kitty later married George Nicholas Wade of Dollagh Beg Farm, in November, 1920. Florence (Flo) married J. Edwin Boyde of Ballacoraige Croft, the Curragh, who started the well- known tailoring and dressmaking business in Parliament Street, Ramsey, where, later, girls from Ballaugh were apprenticed. He died in 1979, aged 95.

There were, of course, other dressmakers in Ballaugh, including Anna Kinrade living opposite the present garage, who taught Alice Corlett, Arthur Mylroie's mother, and also Lizzie Cowell, so that Ballaugh seems to have been a centre for making garments in those days before the art was mechanised by industrial-type machinery which did all the fancy stitches at speed and could be operated by low-paid labour from all parts of the world, although still, of course, you could pay the price and buy hand-made couturier garments.

Another important member of the group was Kathleen (Katie) Joughin, now (1996) 93 years old. When the group broke up she went to work with Hetty Wade at Dollagh Beg Farm until unfinished work was cleared up - mostly blouses, probably about 1920, and then in "Manxonia" in Douglas until she married, in 1927. Others were Annie Leece of Sandygate, Katie Christian (Mrs. John Cowley) of Jurby West and Mona Harrison, niece of Edwin Boyde, the tailor.

Girls leaving school were sometimes apprenticed to dressmakers, starting between the ages of 14 to 16 when one of their main jobs was to sweep the floor before leaving at night and first thing in the morning to pick the pins out of the sweepings with a magnet. They did the fetching and carrying, delivering to customers and waiting on the seamstresses. At the long table they might do some over- oversewing or other basic jobs, in one case being told to hold a button in the palm of the hand with the little finger to avoid catching the thread! At the end of perhaps of a year, they were called 'improvers' and worked on their own. Finally after two years, they qualified as dressmakers or tailoresses earning (in 1930) 2/6d. a week. No longer, it seems, are young girls taught by their mothers to make dresses for themselves or even to do the simplest of mending jobs and there is nothing like the old 'Girls Friendly Society’ which encouraged home needlework.. The tailoring course at the College of Further Education did not open until 1975. Nowadays there are so many jobs available to girls leaving school, but in the 1920's and 30's there were only three options: 'going into service', dressmaking or marriage. This, of course, is what is known as progress, but it seems sad that the art of making one's own clothes has been lost and that Ballaugh is no longer famous for its dressmakers and tailors.

When the Cronk Breck group broke up the house was left empty for a number of years and gradually deteriorated to the extent that when the next owners, the Macaskies, first inspected it they found grass growing knee deep in the rotten floors and plaster failing from the ceiling. However, under the plaster were some good oak beams, possibly ships' timbers, so they decided it was worth restoring and they bought it from the Craine sisters who were living in a flat over the then Westminster Bank, re-roofed it, put in drains to replace the cess-pit, and added two oriel windows on the west side. They were told by David Craine, the historian, that under the flagstone in front of the porch door a Viking's remains had been found, with leather thongs still twisted round the leg bones, together with some broken pots and pieces of a spear. These were sent to the Manx Museum by David Craine, who said that the site of Cronk Breck had been occupied for many centuries and had also been an early Christian chapel before it became a farmhouse, the home of the Craine family, 'two cottages back-to- back, lived in by two brothers, farmers. The Craine family donated two East windows in the Parish Church. The Macaskie's ancestor, Gilbert, had been a Senechal of Man during the reign of Edward II of England, so that it was fitting that other members of his family should come back to the Island to live and to save and improve a building on such a historical site, and embellish it-with a garden full of flowering trees and shrubs. (These facts are given by the kind permission of Mrs. Macaskie in 1996)

Squeen was bought from Johnny Quayle by Commander Parkes, R.N., Aide de Camp to the Governor, greatly enlarged and extended by a glass-roofed billiard room, so that it looked very much as it does today (1996) glimpsed from the road (the A10) across a field in front of Cronk Breck. Commander Parkes married as his first wife, the eldest of the Craine sisters, and had a daughter by his second wife, Beth. who married Gordon, Bishop of Sodor and Man. It was sold to Richard Waller in 1957 and then to R.F. Stiles in 1993.

The approach to Squeen was a lane which ran beside the village school but there was a path along the river to Cronk Breck and on, under the railway bridge, joining the main Kirk Michael road near the present garage which, in those days, was where the cookery classes were held for the school.

Although not directly connected with dressmaking, across the river, which is banked by a profusion of bluebells in Spring, over a narrow bridge, there is another property of great social history interest- Mwyllin Squeen, one of the two water mills in Ballaugh, the other being Scrondal, in the Glen, older than the Squeen, mentioned in the Manorial Roll of 1513, serving the quarterland. These mills were called by the generic name 'corn' mills which covered many kinds of grain - wheat, barley, oats, rye and 'pearl,' barley. Mwyllin Squeen served the crofters round about, according to David Craine in his Mannanan’s Isle. This is now derelict and overgrown, but a detailed reconstruction of its plan by Dr. L.S. Garrad in 1967 gave its date as being built in 1736. The property now belongs to the Craine family whose father, Charles Cowell Craine, son of John Robert of Brough Jiarg, Captain of the Village, acquired it from Johnny the Cregg, and later, in 1964, bought it from the family estate.

Owners or occupiers before the Craines were a Corlett, then a Fayle, and then another Corlett, a butcher with a shop in Ballaugh, who used a small building attached to the mill as a slaughter-house, now a stable. He lived in Mwyllin Squeen from about 1900 to 1914 when he moved to Ballacrye. Next to the 'slaughterhouse' is another smaller extension used, it is said, as a washhouse. Propped up against its wall there is one of the millstones, and another is outside Cronk Breck front door, used as a garden table. On the north side of the 'street' a modern garage has been built on to part of the old threshing mill. The farmhouse itself is still unaltered except for a large modern extension built on to the back. In the ground round the house now (1996) temporarily overgrown with weeds, there is evidence of a real gardener's garden, once cared for lovingly and with knowledge by Janet, Charles' wife. Every year an orchard of sonic 30 fruit trees still crops generously supplying friends and family with apples, pears, plums and cherries.. An ambience of happy family life still persists overcoming its temporary neglect and waiting for another member of the Craine family to bring it back to life. The farmland round about must have been very extensive and included what is now a small modern 'estate' called Faaie Craine, after Charles Craine, who died in 1979.

Since the Ballaugh river dries up in the summer months in its lower reaches, Mwyllin Squeen must have been a part-time mill, only working to grind the corn newly harvested when the autumn rains created a flow of water enough to drive the water wheel. Scrondal Mill, serving the whole quarterland, has a flow of water all through the year. Probably in the past the river disappeared underground at or near the present War Memorial, as it does today (1996). The reason for this, no doubt, is that it is there that the subsoil becomes typically sandy and gravelly and able to absorb the water. Geologists could confirm this theory.

The lane loading to Cronk Breck and Mwyllin Squeen is immediately opposite what was once The Rectory. In 1877 Rector Kermode, who was the last Rector to live in the Old Rectory at the Cronk, an antiquarian, paid for and oversaw the building of a 'new’ Rectory near the Parish Church, St. Mary of Ballaugh, built in 1833, converting a typical 4 room Manx farmhouse, called 'Squeen Lodge' into a pseudo Victorian family house, which from then on was occupied by a series of Rectors, one of whom used to hold classical music 'evenings' in the big drawing room, and another, in the same room, a meeting of the Mothers' Union. In the old days domestic help was readily available to run such a large house, but in 1977, when the Reverend Theo Childs retired, after 7 years incumbency, it was decided to build a new, smaller, modern house in the grounds of the Rectory with less costly upkeep. While waiting for a purchaser of the existing building it was lived in by a family during whose occupancy a fire broke out and the building was gutted. During its rebuilding, in one of the first floor bedroom walls, which had been part of the original Manx farmhouse, the skeleton of a horse's head was found, with two boar's tusks stuck in the jaw, set into a joist hole. This discovery, of course, gave rise to much investigation and surmise by antiquarians and folklore experts, and the usual great exaggeration in the local press and village word of mouth exchange. (For full details, see an article by Yvonne Hayhurst in Vol. 100 of 'Folklore', in the Manx Museum).

The present owner of the building, now erroneously called The Old Rectory, transformed it from its original Victorian aspect into a hotchpotch of exterior additions and excrescences. A great number of trees in the once wooded grounds were cut down and the garden 'landscaped' to include a very small pond and a grand new drive to the front door. The sweetly scented privet hedge was destroyed, together with patches of fine crocuses at the back gate, so familiar to passers by.

So the third Squeen was changed from Manx Farmhouse, to Rectory, to modern 'property’, leaving only Squeen, Mwyllin Squeen and Cronk Breck as examples of Manx heritage.

Mrs D Dobby

Summer, 1996

Mwyllin Squeen

From Larch Garrad’s plan: possible date of origin of mill: 1736 “Lightly incised on a red sandstone datestone”.

Arthur’s Contribution

First name of miller Corlett, then a Fayle, then another Corlett, John, a butcher with shop in Ballaugh main road, father of Alice Corlett (born 28.2.1886). He moved to Mwyllin Squeen bout 1900 and lived there until 1914 when he moved to Ballacrye. He used the building attached to the west wall of the mill as a slaughterhouse.

John Robert Craine was caption of the Village.

There was a cottage (possibly where the Mac bungalow now stands, to which a family of Taylors moved when floods moved them away from Ballacrye.

Arthur’s mother was a Craine living at Mwyllin Squeen?

Johnny the Creg (Johnny Quayle) who had two daughters - Mary and Anne. It was then the Corn Mill which served the crofters round about who took their grain there to be milled.

David Craine - “Manannan’s Isle”

The Killane mill, SC 340969 GBM 24/039, was the manorial corn mill for Jurby.- 'From Patrick McBrew for the mill of Carlane, with the freshwater fishing there, by the year, demised to him, 17s'- It collected its water by way of a complicated series of drains from a large area of marsh curragh land; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was held by members of the Christian family (MMMs 5608-19c). Like most other Manx mills its most recent buildings are of local stone and its roof of imported slate; it has recently been renovated as a dwelling.

The Isle of Man, by L. S. Garrad, T. A. Bawden, J. K. Qualtrough, W. J. Scatchard. P 220

Two Grimshaw families were recorded in Ballaugh in the mid-1700s -- John, who married Joney Cannell, and Thomas, who married Catherine Cowley. John was born in 1751, some time before than Thomas, who was born in about 1761. It is likely that John and Thomas were brothers.

Thomas and Catherine (Cowley) Grimshaw raised a large family on The Isle of Man (probably at Cronk Breck, as noted above). The christening dates for their children are shown in the descendant chart below, from the LDS Family Search website:

Thomas Grimshaw (ca. 1761, Ballaugh, Isle of Man) & Catherine Cowley Married 4 Feb 1786.

|-----Margaret Grimshaw (ch. 13 Jan 1787, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?)

|-----Catherine Grimshaw (ch. 8 Feb 1788, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?)

|-----John Grimshaw (ch. 28 May 1791, Ballaugh, Isle of Man - 18 Jun 1797)

|-----Mary Grimshaw (ch. 14 Jul 1793, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?)

|-----Thomas Grimshaw (ch. 17 Jan 1796, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?)

|-----Anne Grimshaw (ch. 13 May 1798, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?)

|-----John Grimshaw (ch. 22 Jan 1801, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?) & Jane unknown

|-----|-----John Grimshaw (?, Isle of Man - ?)

|-----|-----Catherine Grimshaw (?, New York - ?)

|-----Philip Grimshaw (ch. 2 Oct 1803, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?) & Julia A unknown

|-----William C Grimshaw (ch. 27 Jul 1806, Ballaugh, Isle of Man -?) & Phoebe Cain

As noted, John Grimshaw was older than Thomas. The following descendant chart and information have been located for John Grimshaw.

John Grimshaw (24 Nov 1751, Kirk Michael) - 21 Mar 1817, Ballaugh) & Joney (Booy) Cannell (ch 2 Nov 1756, Ballaugh - 29 Oct 1837, Ballaugh).

|-----John Grimshaw, Jr. (1787, Ballaugh  - 13 Sep 1789, Ballaugh)

|-----Jane Grimshaw (ch 20 Jan 1790 - ?) 

|-----Margaret Grimshaw (ch 30 Nov 1792, Ballaugh - 4 Jan 1844, Ballaugh) & Nicholas Cannell, Jr. Marred 21 Dec 1823).

|-----|-----Jane Cannell & unk Lawson

|-----|-----Judith Cannell

|-----|-----John Cannell

|-----|-----William Cannell

|-----|-----Thomas Cannell

|-----Anne Grimshaw (ch 26 Nov 1797, Ballaugh - ) & Thomas Caley. Married 4 Feb 1827, Ballaugh.

John GRIMSHAW

CHRISTENING: 24 NOV 1751, Kirk Michael IOM

DEATH: 21 MAR 1817, Kirk Michael IOM
Joney Cannell Grimshaw's Will:
IGI Film #106419 Ballaugh 1818

BURIAL: 21 MAR 1817, Ballaugh Cemetery

REFN: wlr

Family 1: Joney (Cannell) GRIMSHAW

MARRIAGE: BFR 1786,
Her mother's 1786 will lists Joney Grimshaw
No Ballaugh marriage record listed

1.  John GRIMSHAW JR
2.  Jane GRIMSHAW
3. +Margaret (Grimshaw) CANNELL
4.  Anne GRIMSHAW

http://apk.net/~ctd/d0001/g0000097.html#I532 

Joney (Cannell) GRIMSHAW

CHRISTENING: 22 NOV 1756, Ballaugh IOM
Joney Cannell Grimshaw's Will: IGI Film #106419 Ballaugh 1818
Kirk Ballaugh Parish Christening Records FHL Film #0106707:
"22 Nov 1756 daughter of John Cannell and Joney Crain/Craine."

BURIAL: 29 OCT 1835, Ballaugh Cemetery

ALT INFORMATION: homestead - Ballamoar
From Her mother's will: "Fiftly -- She left and bequeathed unto her Daughter Joney
Wife of John Grimshaw the Sum of six pounds Her smoothing Iron, a Blanket and the other Half of her shaped woolen and linen Apparel aforesaid."

REFN: wlr chr map

Father: John CANNELL III
Mother: Joney (Craine) CANNELL

Family 1: John GRIMSHAW

MARRIAGE: BFR 1786,
Her mother's 1786 will lists Joney Grimshaw
No Ballaugh marriage record listed

MARRIAGE ENDS with DEATH of SPOUSE: 21 MAR 1817

1.  John GRIMSHAW Jr
2.  Jane GRIMSHAW
3. +Margaret (Grimshaw) CANNELL
4.  Anne GRIMSHAW

 

John GRIMSHAW Jr

BIRTH: 1787, Ballaugh IOM
Margaret Quayle Cannell's Will IGI Film #106419 Ballaugh 1818
IGI date

BURIAL: 13 SEP 1789, Ballaugh IOM
Ball[augh] Burial Record page 63:
"John son of John buried 13 Sep 1789 age 2"

REFN: wlr bur

Father: John GRIMSHAW
Mother: Joney (Cannell) GRIMSHAW

 

Jane GRIMSHAW

CHRISTENING: 20 JAN 1790, Ballaugh IOM
Margaret Quayle Cannell's Will IGI Film #106419 Ballaugh 1818
igi

REFN: igi

Father: John GRIMSHAW
Mother: Joney (Cannell) GRIMSHAW

 

Margaret (Grimshaw) CANNELL

BIRTH: 1792
wec
Margaret Quayle Cannell's Will IGI Film #106419 Ballaugh 1818

CHRISTENING: 30 NOV 1792, Ballaugh IOM
Ballaugh Parish Christening Records FHL Film #0106707:
"30 Nov 1792 daughter of John Grimshaw and Joney Cannell"

DEATH: 04 JAN 1844, Ballaugh IOM
Ballaugh Monumental Inscriptions Book 00.5:
"Sacred to the memory of Margaret Cannell wife of Nicholas Cannell who died 4th Jan 1844 aged 51 years."

BURIAL: JAN 1844, Ballaugh Cemetery
Jan 1844 Ballaugh Burial Register 1598-1986 Book page 17:
"Margaret als Grimshaw Cannell age 51 years buried."

REFN: wlr chr gsi bur

Father: John GRIMSHAW
Mother: Joney (Cannell) GRIMSHAW

Family 1: Nicholas CANNELL JR

MARRIAGE: 21 DEC 1823, Kirk Ballaugh IOM
Kirk Ballaugh Parish Marriage Records FHL Film #0106707:
"21 Dec 1823 married her cousin Nicholas Cannell Jr son of Nicholas Cannell and Jane Corlett."

1.  Jane (Cannell) LAWSON
2.  Judith CANNELL
3.  John CANNELL
4.  William CANNELL
5. +Thomas CANNELL

 

Anne (Grimshaw) CALEY

CHRISTENING: 26 NOV 1797, Ballaugh IOM
Margaret Quayle Cannell's Will IGI Film #106419 Ballaugh 1818
Ballaugh Parish Christening Records FHL Film #0106707:
"26 Nov 1797 daughter of John Grimshaw and Joney Canel"

REFN: wlr chr

Father: John GRIMSHAW
Mother: Joney (Cannell) GRIMSHAW

Family : Thomas CALEY

MARRIAGE: 04 FEB 1827 Ballaugh IOM
IGI Record Ann GRIMSHAW Thomas CALEY
  Marriage: 4 Feb 1827 Ballaugh, Isle Of Man, England
Source Information: Batch number: M038011

Source: http://junior.apk.net/~ctd/d0001/g0000097.html 

formerly: http://apk.net/~ctd/d0000/g0000099.html#I535 

A records of an 1830 Vestry Meeting indicate the presence of John and Thomas Grimshaw in Ballaugh. Their names are shown in bold in this record, shown below.

At least three, and possibly four, Manx Grimshaws immigrated to the U.S. All four were apparently the children of Thomas and Catherine (Cowley) Grimshaw. Records of their immigrations are shown below.

William Grimshaw of Ironton, OH

A companion webpage describes William and Phoebe Grimshaw. The following is an excerpt from that webpage.

William C. Grimshaw was born in Great Britain (Isle of Man) and apparently married Phoebe Cain, who was born in Greenup, Kentucky, after immigrating to the U.S. William and Phoebe, arrived in Lawrence Co., Ohio in about 1847. They apparently had five children - Jennie, William Henry, Ann G. Noble B., and John E. Grimshaw. William Henry, Nobel and John subsequently moved to Illinois. William and Phoebe are apparently buried in Woodland Cemetery, Upper Township, Lawrence Co.

John Grimshaw of New York

John Grimshaw and his wife Jane were recorded in the 1850 U.S. Census of New York, as shown below. Since their older child, age 19, was born in the Isle of Man, and the younger one, age 16, was born in New York, the couple must have immigrated between 1831 and 1834.

Cindy O'Brian has found an 1850 U.S. Census record of William's older brother, John, age 49, living in Bushwick, Kings Co, New York with his wife, Jane (age 51) and two children, John and a sibling (Samantha or Catharine), ages 19 and 16, respectively. This census record is shown on a companion webpage as follows:

New York, John and Jane Grimshaw

John and Jane Grimshaw were born on The Isle of Man and were living in Kings County, New York. He was 48 and she was 51; their children, John and Samantha, were 19 and 16 years old. John was born on The Isle of Man, and Samantha was born in New York. John was a toll gatherer. William Hurst (?), a laborer, was living with this Grimshaw family. [Author's note: It appears that the daughter's name, shown as Samantha in the 1850 census index, is more likely to be Catharine.]

Philip Grimshaw 

Philip is recorded as immigrating in 1831 in the naturalization record shown below from a  companion webpage. He must have married after immigrating, as his wife, Julia, was born in New York.

28. Phillip Grimsha, 1831, New York

    Myers, Mrs. Lester F., 1968

The record for Phillip is quite sparse (Myers, 1968, p. 21):

GRIMSHA, Phillip

128

I -- N

21

Phillip was apparently a New York resident who was also an immigrant, as indicated by the fact that he was recorded in the "I—N" (Immigration Naturalization) pages that were indexed by the reference. Additional research would be required to obtain more detail on his immigration to the U.S. A dual page-numbering system (indicated by the numbers 128 and 21) is used in the index. The entry in the original reference is as follows:

GRIMSHA. Phillip, a native of the Isle of Man, Great Britain, declared his intention of becoming a citizen on June 10, 1831 in Court of Common Pleas, at Oswego, N.Y. He was a resident of Scriba. He took the Oath of Allegiance in Cayuga Co., Oct. 27, 1841. Witnesses, G.W. Foster and Ams Underwood declared that he had complied with the 5 year and 1 year residence requirements.

New York, Philip and Julia Grimshaw

Philip and Julia Grimshaw, ages 46 and 39, were living in New York City and had two teenagers with different surnames (Paddock and Morgan) also living in the household. Philip was born in England, Julia was a native of New York.

John and Philip Grimshaw Families in the 1860 U.S. Census

The 1860 U.S. Census found Jane Grimshaw, probably widowed, in Wayne County, New York with her children, John and Catherine. Philip and Julia Grimshaw are also recorded in Wayne County, as shown in the summary record below.

Thomas Grimshaw

It is possible that John, Philip and William Grimshaw's older brother, Thomas, also emigrated to the U.S., as indicated by the following record (see Thomas Grimshaw's name in bold). Thomas may have arrived on the ship William Dawson in 1827, if this is a record for him. Although his age should have been 31 instead of 35, it was not uncommon for immigrants to be untruthful about their ages.

Known Emigrant Ships and Manifests

Introduction

This page attempts to list the ships the early Manx emigrants to Ohio travelled on - at present only those for 1826 and 1827 are included. I suspect, though currently have no proof, that after these years the route had become well enough known and with sufficient communication from friends or relatives already settled, for individual families to travel alone. The actual voyage, route to Ohio, costs etc are discussed elsewhere.

There were certainly other emigrants and destinations - Thomas Tear refers to a couple of families who travelled to New Brunswick and to Philadelphia in 1826

An index of imigrants arriving at New York from 1820-1840 exists, however it does not appear to be complete [having examined several such manifests I suspect that many names are present but mis-indexed]. Microfilms of the ship's manifests are available and it is from these, mostly via the help of Tim Davis, that I have been able to put togther this page. The act by which these manifests were required and availability of archival copies is discussed elsewhere. Several of these emigrants can be found in 1850 Ohio census, and various early immigrant documents (eg Pioneer Manx Women)

Liverpool Departures

Although no record was kept of emigrants at the ports of exit, it is possible by examining newspapers of the time to construct a list of sailings - the following list (not claimed to be complete) is based on sailing notices in the Liverpool Mercury (courtesy of Liverpool Central Library) for the four month period from April to July 1827.

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1827

....

William Dawson

Liverpool Arrived New York June 18, 1827 (ref #355)

• Phil Carlet 26 shoemaker Great Britain

o Jane 21

• Mathias Quail [Quayle]26 mason

o Ann 23

• Daniel Carlot [Corlett] 24 weaver Great Britain

o Wm 30 tailor

o Ann 30

o Jane 30

o Margt 17

• Chas Comish (Cerush?) 55 farmer Great Britain

o Jane 55

o Mary 21

o Margt 22

o Will (?) 19

o Jane 16

o Ann 13

• James Carlet 3

• Thos Garret 1

• Mathew Keowen (?) 40 tailor

o Jane 30

o John 3 ½

o Will 2 ½

o Ann 1

• Eliza Kallen 70

• Thos Grimshaw 35 farmer Not sure he is Manx, but listed with the others

• Thos Carlet 31 laborer

• Edwd Mathews 28 joiner Not sure he is Manx

• Ann Ratcliffe 29

• __?__ Callow 65 (female) Can't read name

Source: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/genealgy/mfests.htm 

John Grimshaw apparently sent a book back to the Isle of Man from New York with a message written in the front cover. Dr. Ffynlo Craine provided the following e-mail and attachments with this missive. This John Grimshaw is believed to be the immigrant described in the preceding section.

E-mail from Ffynlo Craine with attachment...

July 15, 2007

Thomas -

I visited my cousin this afternoon, and while chatting mentioned our correspondence. She got up and fetched a book which turned out to be a copy of the American constitution dated 1833. The reason why she did so is in the attached image. It shows a letter written to my GG grandfather John (1804-1862) on the inside of the front cover of the book.

Regards,

Ffynlo

PS - Here "gorse" would be Common Gorse (Ulex europaeus) used for hedging, not native to the Isle of Man, but now common everywhere here.

A transcription of the message is shown below.

Left Page:

Long Island Near

N Y 10th 11th 1841

 

To John Craine

(unintelligible)

Sir ∙ I received your 

papers, as for the Bearer 

I did not see as he 

stayed no time in

New York.

________________

I also received from

My Sister Ann,

a Manks prayer

Book an English

Methodist Hymn Book

and a Methodist plan

and a few papers ~

for which I intend to send

her some thing in return.

John Grimshaw

Right Page:

Please to send myself

a few Manks Beans

a few grains of Wheat

peas Barley & oats

and 2 or 3 potatoes

a little Gorse & Broom

and Scotch Cabbage seed

as I wish to try an

Experiment ~.

Your (unintelligible)

John Grimshaw

Dr. Craine provided many records for this website, which are shown below. These records form the basis of many of the interpretations on the Grimshaws of the Isle of Man on this webpage.

Initial E-mail from Dr Craine

Subsequent E-mail

Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007

My apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I've put some rather unsorted material into a PDF file. Make of it what you will, and let me know if I can be of any further help - assuming of course that this material is of help!! By and large the Manx Grimshaws seem to start disappearing about 1850. None appears in a list of property owners dated 1867. I had vaguely wondered where they went...

Regards,

Ffynlo

Records Provided

Dr. Craine provided Grimshaw information from the Ballaugh Baptismal, Marriage and Burial Registers, wills, Kirk Michael Burial Register, LDS International Genealogical Index Records, and the 1841 Census.