An annotated chronology
The building and the museum did not begin together. These dates carry their access limits with them.
8 entries, in chronological order.
ARCHIVE / PRIMARY RECORD
Newspaper accounts quoted through Qualtrough’s research describe the new Castletown windmill. The quoted report concerns the windmill, not the earlier watermill.
Manx Notebook: Castletown windmill research ↗ARCHIVE / PRIMARY RECORD
The historical feature reproduces an August 1829 report of storm damage. The access layer is a later quotation of contemporary news, not a manuscript inspected here.
Manx Notebook: Castletown windmill research ↗INTERPRETATION
The later windmill history records rebuilding after fire. This is a historical account; it does not support the souvenir’s story of abandoned ruins used for witch dances.
Manx Notebook: Castletown windmill research ↗DOCUMENTED MUSEUM HISTORY
The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic’s institutional history dates Williamson’s island centre to 1951 and identifies Gardner as resident witch.
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic: institutional history ↗LATER HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
The annotated guide reports an ownership transaction involving Gardner. Original deeds have not been inspected in this project.
Manx Notebook: annotated Museum souvenir guide ↗LATER HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
The annotated guide reports the museum passing to Monique Wilson after Gardner’s death. This date is attributed to the later account.
Manx Notebook: annotated Museum souvenir guide ↗LATER HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
The editorial introduction describes closure in the early 1970s and dispersal of exhibits. It does not provide a precise independently checked closing day.
Manx Notebook: annotated Museum souvenir guide ↗LATER HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
The annotations give 1999 for completion; the windmill page describes the conversion as complete at the start of 2000. The historic museum site is not presented here as an open visitor attraction.
Manx Notebook: Castletown windmill research ↗An undated museum souvenir claimed that the windmill existed in 1611. The annotated guide and the building research identify a confusion with an earlier watermill. We show the claim as a claim, rather than placing it on the timeline as an established construction date.
Read the annotated souvenir ↗Dates marked “reported” come from later accounts. Original deeds and manuscripts have not been independently inspected. A residential conversion is not a current visitor attraction listing.
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