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Name
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The Manx Prisoners of War (1803–1814)
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Description
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In the autumn of 1811, twenty-seven Manx soldiers captured while serving in Wellington's army were held in French prisoner-of-war depots scattered across the continent. Thomas Crellin of Peel — himself a prisoner at Longwy — wrote to Robert Cannell in Douglas reporting the distribution of forty pounds that the Bishop of Sodor and Man had raised for their relief. The letter names every man and traces each to his parish: John Lace of Kirk Onchan, Thomas Faragher of Peel, Robert Quay of Kirk Maughold. Two of those men had been prisoners for ten years, captured in 1803. The relief came not from the Crown but from the island itself — ordinary Manx people contributing what they could for men they would have known by family if not by face.
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Active Period
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1803–1814
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Type
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Prisoners of War
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Source
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Thomas Crellin's letter, 1811; Bishop's collection records
