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Items of General Interest
This page contains various pieces of news or articles
published on Creer family matters which may be of interest to all:-
- "Never to Return" by
Hampton Creer (ISBN No 0 952 4019 7 5) is a detailed and graphic account of
the 200 Manx prisoners who were
deported to the penal colonies, starting from 1698 and ending in 1862. It
provides a powerful insight into what life was like in the Isle of Man
during this 300 year period. I do not know whether to be pleased or
disappointed, but the none of the crimes recorded in this book were
committed by anyone bearing the Creer name! Hampton Creer is a farmer
today living in the Isle of Man, and this book was written as a result of
some of the things he discovered in the Manx Museum whilst researching his
family tree. One of his ancestors, a Christian Hampton, was among the first
group of prisoners to be deported from the Isle of Man to Jamaica in 1698
and was never heard of again.
"History of Three Manxmen in
the Swan Valley" - is an account by John
McAllister Creer of three Manxmen, one of which was a John Creer, who left
the IOM at the beginning of the last century and settled in Western
Australia. This article was originally published in the IOM Family History
Society Journal and is reproduced here.
If you have any bits of news or information that you think you would be of
interest to others then please let me know
and I will publish them here.
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