Name

Emigration and Diaspora

Description

The Manx people left. Ohio, Cleveland, Virginia — they carried their language, their constitutional instinct, their identity. Colonel William Christian of Fincastle, Virginia, descended from the same family as Illiam Dhone. The Fincastle Resolutions of 1775 — drafted by Manx-descended Virginians — preceded the Declaration of Independence. John Sayle wrote home from Ohio in Manx Gaelic. The language lived longer in Ohio than it did on the Island.

Date Range

1820–1900

Key Events

Chapter 17