Number Phone Tracing


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Number Phone Tracing

Number Phone Tracing

The Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea, midway between England and Ireland, is not actually part of the British Isles and British laws don’t necessarily apply here. This affects the type and format of records available to the family history researcher and the way in which research can be carried out.

Organization of the Isle of Man

The island is divided into six sheadings, each containing a number of parishes. Historically, each parish was responsible for keeping birth, marriage and death records for the established church and for passing these to the bishop at yearly intervals. The six sheadings are: Ayre, Garff, Glenfaba, Michael, Middle and Rushen.

Compulsory registration of births, marriages and deaths arrived later in the Isle of Man than it did in Britain. Births and deaths were officially registered from 1878 and marriages from 1884. An event which occurred before these dates may be recorded in parish registers. Surviving registers run from the 1600s to 1878 and most are now located at the Manx National Heritage Library.