When Anne Colvin was born on 10 January 1763, in Peel, Isle of Man, her father, Arthur Colvin III, was 11760 and her mother, Mary Myllevorry, was 11760. She married Hugh Shimmin on 14 November 1776, in Kirk German, Isle of Man. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters.
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"""The Statute Laws of the Isle of Man"" by C. Briscoe are published."
Census gave Island population of 40,081.
Potato riots caused by imposition of tithes.
Scottish and Irish (Donegal, Antrim): variant of Colville , probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.
Manx: if not identical with 1, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn, with /v/ substituted for /b/.
English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin, Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).
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