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Manx Americans

{{short description|Americans of Manx birth or descent}}

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|group = Manx Americans

|native_name = {{native name|gv|Americanyn Manninagh}}

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|population = Self-identified as "Manx"
6,955 (2000){{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ancestry/ancestry_q_by_DAC_2000.xls |title = Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000 |access-date=2013-05-05 |publisher = United States Census Bureau}}

|popplace = Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, California, Virginia and Washington, D.C.,

particularly the cities of Cleveland, Mentor, and Painesville, Ohio and Peoria, Illinois.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUAjS96SVgoC&dq=manx+americans+concentrated+in+california+ohio&pg=PA147|title=The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place|page=147|isbn=978-0-85323-036-6 |last1=Robinson |first1=Vaughan |last2=McCarroll |first2=Danny |date=January 1990 |publisher=Liverpool University Press }}

|langs = English, Manx

|rels = Christianity

|related = Breton Americans, Cornish Americans, English Americans, Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Welsh Americans}}

Manx Americans ({{langx|gv|Americanyn Manninagh}}) are Americans of full or partial Manx ancestral origin or Manx people who reside in the United States of America. Areas with significant numbers of people whose ancestry originates from the Isle of Man include Holt County, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio.

Settlement in Missouri

William Banks was the first Manx settler in Holt County, Missouri, 1841.{{cite web |url= https://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/famhist/genealgy/holt.htm |title= Manx Settlement in Holt County Missouri |author= Ralph, Lois |publisher= isle-of-man.com |access-date= April 19, 2025}} He was followed by members of the Callow, Cottier, Garrett, Kennish, and Teare families of Maughold. Thomas Cottier arrived in Holt County in 1847, and through his influence approximately 500 Manx people immigrated to the state from the island.{{cite book |url= https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/mocohist/id/31467/ |title= History of Holt and Atchison counties, Missouri |year= 1882 |page= 314 |access-date= April 19, 2025}}

Settlement in Ohio

The city of Cleveland, Ohio, is said{{who|date=April 2025}} 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 of the Isle of Man. From 1822 onwards, many families such as the Corlett family became farmers and leased land from the Connecticut Land Company. In 1826, more families such as the Kelleys, Teares, and Kneens 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 and of Manx descent, bound together by their Manx language and customs. Among 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.[https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/british-immigration BRITISH IMMIGRATION] – Immigrants from England, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales[https://books.google.com/books?id=XGhLJ2AacqAC&dq=st+manx+school+ohio&pg=PA88 British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900] – By William E. Van Vugt

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