Name

Edward Christian of Bemahague

Biography

Of the Christian family that had signed the Keys' Resolution of March 1765. Forced to sell the family home at Bemahague in 1789 — twenty-four years after the Revestment — because the economic conditions the Revestment had created had ruined him. The property had been a Christian family home from at least 1600, the same family that had produced Deemsters from 1408. Robert Heywood bought it. The Manx Government purchased it in 1904 and turned it into Government House — maintained at Manx expense for the representative of a Lord who has never spent a night under its roof. A family's farm, lost to the consequences of the Revestment, paid for by the Manx people.

Active Period

fl. 1765–1789

Place

Bemahague, Onchan

Family / Group

The Christian Family

Period

Crown Administration

Role / Office

Landowner

Book Chapter

Chapter 18