Manx Americans

Manx Americans are Americans of full or partial Manx ancestral origin or Manx people who reside in the United States of America.

Manx Americans
Total population
Self-identified as "Manx"
6,955 (2000)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Washington, D.C.


Particularly in the cities of Cleveland, Mentor, Painesville, Peoria
Languages
English, Manx
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Breton Americans, Cornish Americans, English Americans, Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Welsh Americans

Settlement in Ohio

The city of Cleveland, Ohio is said to have the highest concentration of Americans of Manx descent in the United States. They predominantly descend from the Village of Andreas on the northern side in the Isle of Man. From 1822 onwards, many families such as the Corlett family, becoming farmers and easing land by the Connecticut Land Company. In 1826 more families such as the Kelley’s, Teare’s, and Kneen’s established themselves in Newburgh which would encourage more Manx settlement into the area. Cleveland was a town of only six hundred people. A population grew to around 3000 of both Manx-born or of Manx descent bound together by their Manx language and customs. Amongst the immigrants was William Corlett who donated land for the community's log schoolhouse so Manx children would be educated in their native Manx and English languages.[2][3]

Notable people
Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
  • Category

References
  1. "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  2. BRITISH IMMIGRATION - Immigrants from England, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales
  3. British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900 - By William E. Van Vugt


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