Governor's of Isle of Man:

1518 John Fazakerley

Isle of Man Registers Checked by Malcolm:

Registers of Births Marriages and Deaths:

Arbory from 1729 to late 1980's
Braddan from 1683
St Barnabas' from 1854
St Georges from 1786
Castletown from 1850
Malew from 1649
Santon from 1690
Rushen from 1708
Andreas from 1655
Bride from 1693
Jurby from 1606
Lezayre from 1696
Maughold from 1648
Ballaugh from 1695
German from 1673
Kirk Michael from 1629
Patrick from 1714
Lonan from 1718
Marown from 1799
St Mathews from 1705
Onchan from 1698
St Thomas' from 1853

Dissenters from 1849
C of E from 1884

I didn't check Baptisms - The LDS have done all that and it is all on the
IGI.

Also checked all available Monumental Inscription books that have been
prepared by the IoM Family History Society, all Wills indexes at the Manx
Museum Library, all newspaper biographical records from 1750 to date
excluding an unindexed century 1850 - 1950.

Fazakerley Connections to the Isle of Man

1. Bridget Fazakerley 
Found: Administration of the IoM estate of Bridget Fazakerly dated Feb 7th 1793, in which it states that Bridget died intestate "some time ago". No family details given, unfortunately.

> Wonder if she (if we have the right Bridget) owned the estate or if James
> did. If it belonged to the Cowley family or Fazakerley family. 

With a name like Cowley we certainly have the right one. Cowley is a very
common Manx name. It was probably Cowley estates.

(Note: Bridget Cowley married James Fazakerley April 25, 1769, St. George's Church, Liverpool; Bridget Fazakerley, widow of James Fazakerley, Brewer, Castle St., Liverpool, buried March 25, 1781, St. Nicholas' Church, Liverpool)

DOUGLAS

"At a Court holden in the House of Thomas Quine in the Parish of Kirk Patrick
on this 9th Day of March 1793

Bridget Fazakerly of the Town of Douglas having departed this life several
years ago Intestate and her next of Kin within the Diocese having refused to
take upon them the Burden of the Administration of her Effects The Court
thereupon and upon the humble Petition of Thomas Killey of the said Town,
Mason, an alleged principal Creditor of the said Intestate and for the
Preservation of the Rights of all Persons interested in her Estate has
committed the Administration of all and singular the Goods, Rights, Credits,
Chattels and Effects of the said Bridget Fazakerly to the said Thomas Killey
in Trust for the Benefit of all Persons interested theirin and he is
thereupon sworn well and truly to administer the same to inventory appraise
and afterwards sell the Goods and Effects of the said Intestate by Public
Auction to the best advantage to exhibit into the Episcopal Registry a full
true and perfect Inventory and Accounts Sale of her Estate to pay all her
just Debts so far forth as her Goods and Effects will extend and the Law
bind him and to render an Account of his said Administration when thereunto
required by the Ecclesiastical Court of this Diocese and to these Ends he
hath given Pledges in Forms of Law namely John Gell of Thynnah in the Parish of German and George Oates of Kirk Braddan yeoman."

Decretium Este
Ev. Christian

This suggests that there should have been an Inventory in the Episcopal
Registry, but I didn't find it.
It also suggests that there were next of kin resident in the IoM, but these
may have been Cowleys.
There is another document but it is merely the mentioned Petition from
Thomas Killey to Evan Christian (Vicar-General) asking for permission to
have this matter dealt with at the Court.

2. George Armstrong Fazakerley
(Note: George Armstrong Fazakerley, died Sept. 08, 1901, Isle of Man and buried at Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, Sept 12, 1901; Parents possibly Joseph & Jane Armstrong Fazakerley, Occ., Painter, of Walton)

I have now searched through the IoM BMD records from 1606 to the present day. Haven't found very many Faz's, but I suppose knowing that they AREN'T there is just as valuable to our researchers.
One that I did find:
Your record #7707, George Armstrong.
He died here in the Isle of Man. Anyone wanting his death cert. can find it in Parish of Rushen register, Volume C-1, page 234.

George Armstrong was on holiday in the Isle of Man with his sister. They were staying with a Mr Thomas Harrison in Port Erin. GA went for a swim in Spaldrick Bay in conditions that were not really fit for swimming.
Several rescue attempts were made when he got into trouble in the water, but to no avail. GA suddenly ceased all movement and sank beneath the surf.
Coroner's inquest was held on 9 Sept 1901 in the Station Hotel. Verdict: heart failure due to over-exertion.

GA was 24 years old, he lived at 15 Church Road, West Walton, Liverpool and was a wholesale butchers manager.

Newspaper Report of George Armstrong Fazakerley:
BATHING FATALITY AT PORT ERIN
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A YOUNG VISITORS SAD END
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GALLANT CONDUCT OF VISITORS
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INQUEST
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A bathing fatality which occurred at Port Erin on Sunday morning cast a deep gloom over the pretty and popular Southern holiday resort. Mr George Armstrong Fezerkerley, a young visitor, 24 years old, who with his sister had been staying with Mr Thos. Harrison, at the Truggan, went for a bathe in the sea at Spaldrick at about half-past eleven o'clock. He was accompanied by another visitor named Smith, who was first in the water, but deemed it prudent to go ashore again on account of the dangerous surf which was rolling in on the beach. Deceased got through the surf, and was swimming some thirty yards from the shore, when Smith called out to him to come back. Smith and another person then tried to launch a boat, but it capsized immediately. Then they secured a piece of rope, and running out on the rock at the side of the cove, tried to throw it to Fezerkerley. The rope, however, would not reach the deceased, who was trying to swim towards it, when his head suddenly fell down on his chest, and his motions ceased. The attention of others had now been attracted, and several gentlemen hurried up. A visitor named G. H. Whiteley, of Halifax, was the first to plunge in to the rescue, and others followed, so that the body was quickly got ashore. Efforts to restore animation artificially were carried out for about two hours unsuccessfully, and from the circumstances of the case, the medical gentlemen who were on the scene were of the opinion that the young fellow was dead when he was taken from the water, death having resulted from heart failure through over-exertion.

Mr Jas. S. Gell, High-Bailiff of Castletown, and Coroner of Inquests for the Southern District, held an inquiry into the circumstances of the death of the deceased in the Station Hotel on Monday at noon. The jury first viewed the body at the lodgings of the deceased at Beachfield House, Truggan (Mr Thos. Harrison's), and then assembled at the Station Hotel to hear the evidence.

The first witness called was Miss Fezerkerley, who deposed: The body the jury have just viewed is that of George Armstrong Fezerkerley, my brother. He was a bachelor, 24 years of age, and he lived at 15, Church-road, West Walton, Liverpool. He was manager for a wholesale butchery establishment. He came to Port Erin on Monday last. I joined him here on Wednesday. Since he came he has been bathing mostly every day, generally at the baths. I think he was a good swimmer. About noon yesterday we left the house together, and he went off to go to bathe at Spaldrick beach with another gentleman named Smith. I knew he had a weak chest, but I have not known that there was anything the matter with his heart. He seemed a healthy man.

Robert Joseph Smith, of Ellerslie, Woodhey-road, Rock Ferry, deposed: I was lodging in the same house as the deceased, but I did not know him before coming here. Yesterday morning was the first time I had been bathing with him. He had been talking a great deal about swimming, and I gathered from what he said that he was a good swimmer. We went to Spaldrick beach and undressed on the shore. I went first into the water, and on account of the surf I deemed it prudent to return. In the meantime deceased passed me, and I saw him about 30 yards from the shore. I called out to him to come back, and beckoned to him. He called back, whether in fear or not I cannot say. Then another gentleman and I got a boat and ran it into the sea, but it immediately capsized in the surf. There was a rope on the beach, and we ran out on the rocks to throw it to him. He was about fifteen yards from the side of the rocks, swimming all right, and with his head well out of the water. We threw a rope, which had some cork attached, to him, but it did not reach him. Just then his head suddenly fell down upon his chest, and there was no further effort at swimming. He had been making headway up until then. We were all the time calling for help. If anyone of us had attempted to jump into the water, it would have simply added to the trouble. It would have been useless, in the state of the water, for anyone but an expert swimmer to have attempted it. When I saw that it was all up with him I gave up, and walked towards my clothes. Afterwards I saw his body brought ashore, the tide having drifted it towards the shore. The whole thing did not take more than five minutes. I am only a poor swimmer myself, and was nearly drowned about fifteen years ago.

Herbert Cookson, of Buxton, deposed: I am a visitor staying at Port Erin. Yesterday about noon I was walking down to the baths with two friends named Craven. We got about halfway down, and I saw a boat floating overturned in the bay about 30 or 40 yards from the shore. I said to my friends that something had happened, and we ran as fast as we could round the cliffs. We rushed down the shore, and seeing a man in the water, I and Mr Henry Craven threw off our coats and dived in, and brought the body out. He was floating with his hands stretched out, and his face under the water, making no effort to swim, and apparently like a dead person. We immediately began artificial respiration, and it was continued with assistance for some time, but produced not the slightest sign of life. The doctors who came took charge. My opinion is that the case was hopeless from the first. The sea was very bad indeed for bathing, as there was a heavy swell on. If a man was not a very strong swimmer, it was most unsafe.

Dr Hylton Thompson, of Bolton, deposed: I am staying at present in Port Erin. yesterday morning I was at a friends house in Spaldrick, when a sailor came for me, and I ran down to the bay as hard as I could. I found the body on the shore with twelve people round it. It was lying on some coats and blankets. Mr Cookson and some others were present, and for the moment they had stopped the artificial respiration, and had turned the body over on his chest, and were rubbing his legs. I had the deceased turned over on his back, and with the aid of several of St John's Ambulance men who were about, we kept up artificial respiration for a couple of hours, so as to give him every chance, but there was not the slightest sign of life. My brother, Dr Wm. Thompson, and also Dr Wallace, of Blackburn, assisted. I think the man died from exhaustion and heart failure. He was a man of poor physique. It was not a case of drowning, as he did not sink, and the lungs were not full of water: the air came in and out freely as I performed the artificial respiration. Death was due to a weakened heart, exhausted by over-exertion. The sea was very rough, and I suppose he found the breakers too much for him.

Police-Constable George Edward Bridson deposed: Yesterday, about 12-30, I went to the shore at Spaldrick, and saw the body of a man lying there. Dr Thompson and another gentleman were trying to restore animation, but without success. The body was first removed to the Falcon Yard, and afterwards to his lodgings at the Truggan.

After the Coroner had summed up the evidence, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with Dr Thompson's evidence that death was due to heart failure, caused by over exertion while bathing, acting on a weak heart.
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Isle of Man Examiner 14th September 1901

NOTES: GA's death certificate is in the Rushen Parish Register Vol C-1 page 234 entry no 411, together with the Coroner's certificate.
His name is spelled correctly there - Fazakerley.
The death occurred on Sunday 8th September 1901. The Coroner's Court was on 9th September.
On the way to Spaldrick from Truggan, GA walked past one of the nicest bathing beaches in that part of the Island - I guess that was because low tide was at about 1.30pm that day and the water's edge would have been quite a distance away. But why did he also walk past the open-air swimming baths?
Comments by Malcolm:
I was wondering why GA went to swim at Spaldrick. The route from the Truggan (where he was staying) to Spaldrick Bay passes by a long sandy beach at Port Erin which is perfect for swimming, and is very popular today. (I was there a few days ago)
I checked the tide tables for 1901. High tide was at 7.16am, so I guess that by the time GA was out and about the tide would have been low. Port Erin beach shelves shallowly so the water would have been quite a long way out, and may have been uninviting. Spaldrick would have water in it even at low tide.

3. John Fazakerely
John Fazakerly, cork cutter, late of Liverpool
"Begs leave to acquaint the Wine Merchants and Brewers of the Isle of Man and Public in general that he has taken a shop in Douglas where he means carrying out the CORK CUTTING Business, and all its Branches, and hopes to merit their Favors- All Orders in the above Line will be carefully executed on the most reasonable Terms.
Manx Advertiser, May 16, 1811

4. Peter John Fazakerley
Marriage of Peter John Fazakerley to Audrey Ann Grocock (otherwise White) at St. Olave's, Ramsey in 1956.
Peter was 26, a salesman, living at the Premier Hotel, North Promenade, Ramsey. Son of John Philip Fazakerley, a retired clothier. Audrey was 26, a hotel receptionist, daughter of Arthur Grocock, a jeweller. Witnesses were Leslie Charles, George Rice, and Audrey Slack.
(St. Olaves Register page 225 number 9)

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