Eleanor Karran
Epithet: Native Manx speaker (c.1870-1953)
Record type: Biographies
Biography: Eleanor Karran married John Karran whose family had farmed in Cregneash for generations. Walter Clarke recalls that she was a lovely lady but very shy; so shy that she always put her hand over her mouth when she spoke and she had a very quiet voice.
Leslie Quirk remembers Eleanor as a very fluent Manx speaker but, "...you had to drag it out of her a bit - she'd gone rusty."
Gender: Female
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Linked Records
Archives:
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 13i: Speaker: Eleanor Karran, Cregneash, Rushen
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 13ii: Speaker: Eleanor Karran, Cregneash, Rushen
- Jack, Eleanor and Harry Karran
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 10: Conversation: Ned Maddrell, Glen Chass, Rushen and Eleanor Karran, Cregneash, Rushen
- Recitations, singing and conversation in Manx Gaelic
- Mrs Eleanor Karran (about 80 years old)