George Borrow and the Ohio Manx (1855)
- Item sets
- Diaspora
- Name
- George Borrow and the Ohio Manx (1855)
- Description
- George Borrow, travelling in 1855, met a woman whose son lived in an Ohio village where the Manx language was spoken. The encounter, recorded decades after the first emigration ships sailed, confirmed that the language the emigrants carried across the Atlantic was still alive in the American settlements — at a time when institutional support for Manx on the island itself was continuing to erode.
- Date
- 1855
- Origin / Destination
- Ohio Settlements
- Period
- Emigration and Diaspora
- Type
- Historical Account
- Source
- Borrow, Wild Wales (1862); Kinvig
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 17 — What They Carried