Individual Details
William "Ii" Clucas
( - )
Tombstone:
"Elizabeth Clucas - wife of Wm. Clucas of Strang who departed this life May 24, 1862, 49 years of age.
Also the remains of the above Wm. Clucas who departed this life June 14, 1871, at 58 years of age"
"In the grave where I am lying,
Weep not for me.
Wintery winds around me sighing
Weep not for me.
Holy angels guard are keeping
Round the spot where I am sleeping
Whilst immortal joys I'm reaping
Weep not for me"
Blacksmith and bonesetter of Strang
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WILLIAM CLUCAS - (Second Bone-setter). Extract from Page 5, I.O.M. Times, dated 17th June, 1871
Sudden Death of Mr. Clucas of the Strang.
- "As if regardless of the wants of society, needless of any amount of good done in the past, and pitiless and impartial as regard, the object of his full stroke, the dread monster, with one blow, perhaps without a moment's notice, has made such a blank in society as will be indeed difficult to fill up. On Tuesday night last Mr. Clucas sat happy and well in his quiet home at the Strang, went upstairs to bed humming a hymn-tune - on the following morning his daughter, who went into his room to wake him, found his prostrate, a lifeless corpse. The evidence given by a medical man in the inquest held the same day, was to the effect that death was caused by disease of the heart, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. That this sad event will be deeply regretted all over the Island, there is no doubt; but the poor especially will have reason to mourn the loss of a benefactor The very mention of the word Strang in any part of the Island is connected with ideas of dislocated joints, fractured bones, and other severe bodily injuries and diseases. Scarcely a day passed without a score or so of unfortunate sufferers being relieved by his skillful, and we are given to understand, almost unerring treatment, and it is quite certain that implicit confidence was placed in him by the people of the Island generally, and also by no small amount on the other side of the water. In the younger period of his life - almost before he reached manhood - he was considered skillful as a bone-setter. At the age of twenty, when working at the forge (his then vocation), he was called upon to set a broken leg, which he did satisfactorily. After the death of his father (also a noted bone-setter) he forsook the hammers and anvil, and gave his whole mind to studying in his important calling in life, and the success which attended his efforts in that capacity can be abundantly testified by hundreds who have received benefit under his treatment. Such, however, are the mysterious ways of Providence, that the kind indulgent father, the obliging and peaceful neighbour, and the most useful member of society, may be hurried from time into eternity, leaving none to fill their place; while he whose absence from society would scarcely be felt, is, to all appearance, indulgently spared. A very short time ago Mr. Clucas was seized with a serious illness, which he feared might terminate fatally, and he had repeatedly expressed a fear that, on account of painful sensations he sometimes felt in the region of the heart, he
FUNERAL OF MR. W. CLUCAS OF THE STRANG - MONAS HERALD: 25TH JUNE, 1871: (Received from the Family History Society Library, IOM, August 16, 2003)
"The funeral of this universally respected gentleman took place on Saturday last. Ten o'clock was the hour appointed but, owing to the large number of people who came from great distances requiring refreshments, it was eleven o'clock before the cortege left the deceased gentleman's house. Before that hour there were no less than 40 vehicles, besides an assemblage of something like 1,000 people. There was a long train of mourners who sand an appropriate hymn before the procession started. The Rev. T.C. Langton received the corpse at the cemetery, but, being taken ill when reading the funeral service, the Rev. T. W. Drury, the son f the respected Vicar of Braddan concluded it. Singularly enough, too, the clerk was taken seriously ill during the service. Large as was the assemblage of persons who accompanied the corpse from the deceased gentleman's residence to the cemetery, and who congregated in the cemetery itself, the multitude would have been much greater had the funeral taken place on any other day than Saturday which, being market-day, kept many farmers in town who would have gladly availed themselves of an opportunity of paying a tribute of respect to one whose good works had endeared him to all. On every hand - north, south, east and west - a general regret is expressed by both rich and poor, gentle and simple, at the loss of one who had proved himself so useful a member of the community. To the very large number of persons who have been or were, at the time of his death, under Mr. Clucas's surgical care, his decease will be keenly felt, and the deep feeling of emotion which was evinced by the multitude who assembled at the funeral, testified how high was the estimation in which the deceased gentleman was held."
"Elizabeth Clucas - wife of Wm. Clucas of Strang who departed this life May 24, 1862, 49 years of age.
Also the remains of the above Wm. Clucas who departed this life June 14, 1871, at 58 years of age"
"In the grave where I am lying,
Weep not for me.
Wintery winds around me sighing
Weep not for me.
Holy angels guard are keeping
Round the spot where I am sleeping
Whilst immortal joys I'm reaping
Weep not for me"
Blacksmith and bonesetter of Strang
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WILLIAM CLUCAS - (Second Bone-setter). Extract from Page 5, I.O.M. Times, dated 17th June, 1871
Sudden Death of Mr. Clucas of the Strang.
- "As if regardless of the wants of society, needless of any amount of good done in the past, and pitiless and impartial as regard, the object of his full stroke, the dread monster, with one blow, perhaps without a moment's notice, has made such a blank in society as will be indeed difficult to fill up. On Tuesday night last Mr. Clucas sat happy and well in his quiet home at the Strang, went upstairs to bed humming a hymn-tune - on the following morning his daughter, who went into his room to wake him, found his prostrate, a lifeless corpse. The evidence given by a medical man in the inquest held the same day, was to the effect that death was caused by disease of the heart, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. That this sad event will be deeply regretted all over the Island, there is no doubt; but the poor especially will have reason to mourn the loss of a benefactor The very mention of the word Strang in any part of the Island is connected with ideas of dislocated joints, fractured bones, and other severe bodily injuries and diseases. Scarcely a day passed without a score or so of unfortunate sufferers being relieved by his skillful, and we are given to understand, almost unerring treatment, and it is quite certain that implicit confidence was placed in him by the people of the Island generally, and also by no small amount on the other side of the water. In the younger period of his life - almost before he reached manhood - he was considered skillful as a bone-setter. At the age of twenty, when working at the forge (his then vocation), he was called upon to set a broken leg, which he did satisfactorily. After the death of his father (also a noted bone-setter) he forsook the hammers and anvil, and gave his whole mind to studying in his important calling in life, and the success which attended his efforts in that capacity can be abundantly testified by hundreds who have received benefit under his treatment. Such, however, are the mysterious ways of Providence, that the kind indulgent father, the obliging and peaceful neighbour, and the most useful member of society, may be hurried from time into eternity, leaving none to fill their place; while he whose absence from society would scarcely be felt, is, to all appearance, indulgently spared. A very short time ago Mr. Clucas was seized with a serious illness, which he feared might terminate fatally, and he had repeatedly expressed a fear that, on account of painful sensations he sometimes felt in the region of the heart, he
FUNERAL OF MR. W. CLUCAS OF THE STRANG - MONAS HERALD: 25TH JUNE, 1871: (Received from the Family History Society Library, IOM, August 16, 2003)
"The funeral of this universally respected gentleman took place on Saturday last. Ten o'clock was the hour appointed but, owing to the large number of people who came from great distances requiring refreshments, it was eleven o'clock before the cortege left the deceased gentleman's house. Before that hour there were no less than 40 vehicles, besides an assemblage of something like 1,000 people. There was a long train of mourners who sand an appropriate hymn before the procession started. The Rev. T.C. Langton received the corpse at the cemetery, but, being taken ill when reading the funeral service, the Rev. T. W. Drury, the son f the respected Vicar of Braddan concluded it. Singularly enough, too, the clerk was taken seriously ill during the service. Large as was the assemblage of persons who accompanied the corpse from the deceased gentleman's residence to the cemetery, and who congregated in the cemetery itself, the multitude would have been much greater had the funeral taken place on any other day than Saturday which, being market-day, kept many farmers in town who would have gladly availed themselves of an opportunity of paying a tribute of respect to one whose good works had endeared him to all. On every hand - north, south, east and west - a general regret is expressed by both rich and poor, gentle and simple, at the loss of one who had proved himself so useful a member of the community. To the very large number of persons who have been or were, at the time of his death, under Mr. Clucas's surgical care, his decease will be keenly felt, and the deep feeling of emotion which was evinced by the multitude who assembled at the funeral, testified how high was the estimation in which the deceased gentleman was held."
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Freer ( - ) |
| Child | William Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | John Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Thomas Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Edward Freer Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Sarah "Lenora" Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Hannah Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Agnes Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | William George Clucas ( - ) |
| Child | Louis Freer Clucas ( - ) |
| Father | William "I" Clucas ( - ) |
| Mother | Living |
| Sibling | Margaret Clucas ( - ) |
| Sibling | Robert Clucas ( - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Clucas ( - ) |
| Sibling | John Clucas ( - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Ann Clucas ( - ) |
| Sibling | Edward Clucas ( - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Clucas ( - ) |