We do not have a clear answer.

Some of the wages books for the mine show women listed, but they were either unmarried or widowed, so they had no husbands. There were only around 12 working overground in Laxey anyway, so was a small proportion.

FYI. From 1860s all women were banned from working underground - the Victorians were prudish about them stripping off to work, as the men did, in the extreme heat underground.

FYI. Women were also able to own property in their own right here on the Island.

We do not have a clear answer.

 This varied immensely  and was dependent many factors. The risks of explosions (Laxey Mines did not produce Methane with the exception after the fire in the Snaefell Mine in 1897), rock fall, and dust as a by-product of the mining. Depending on how much dust they were exposed to, miners often developed ‘miners lung’. That said Little Tommy lived to over 90.

FYI. Extracts from the local newspapers during the 1800's suggest that the miners were generally in good health.

 We do not have a clear answer.

 However, you only need to look at the old graveyard in Lonan Parish Church, which is where the majority, if not all, of the residents of Laxey would have been buried to see that many families lost young children. We have to remember that before the widespread introduction of antibiotics  and the effectiveness of better medical training, including cleanliness many children and adults would die from infections.

Perhaps a mitigating factor in women health would be that around Laxey they give birth as home - in the mid C19th physicians would often attend labour wards straight from the mortuary, with tragic consequences for both mother and baby.  

As far as the spread of disease, because there was not the overcrowding in Laxey that there would have been in the comparable urban areas of the UK in the C19th, the spread of infectious diseases may have been slowed somewhat.

It was built to retain the 'deads' (waste rock from the mines) that were known as Little Egypt.

 A slide is a geological fault in the earth, much like how the tectonic plates slide together to produce fault ridges on which there is seismic or volcanic activity.

This was a legal obligation as part of the contract given by the commissioners of mines to the project at Laxey. It was an exploratory level whereby they would sink shafts down to look for minerals. The Pioneer level petered out at the Dumbell Shaft. The ADIT  sometimes acted as a drainage level.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND

It remains the largest religious organisation on the Isle of Man with forty five Anglican churches and one Church of England Primary school. It is divided into three Deaneries - Douglas, Castletown and Peel, and Ramsey. The most Senior churchman on the Island is the LORD BISHOP of Sodor and Man, who also holds a seat on the Legislative Council of the Tynwald Court.

METHODISTS

Are the second largest Christian group on the Isle of Man, with thirty seven Methodist Churches. Methodism was first introduced here by John Merlin in 1758 and later preached by John Wesley who found here 'but six Papists and no dissenters'. The simple faith of the Manx people impressed him greatly and before long there were twenty ministers on the Island. Most towns and villages had a number of Primitive Methodist chapels and Wesleyan chapels, often situated on opposite sides of the street or one at either end.

ROMAN CATHOLICISM

Comes under the Archdiocese of Liverpool, and The Dean of the Isle of Man is the Very Reverend Canon Brendan Alger.

Manx Roman Catholics suffered greatly under the sixteenth century Reformation when they lost their places of worship and had to gather in ancient keeils. It wasn't until the early 19th Century that they were given some land on the Old Castletown road for St Bridget's Chapel and later were able to build St Mary's Church in Douglas.

Since then the arrival of workers from Liverpool and Ireland has considerably swelled the Roman Catholic population and there are now eight Catholic churches around the Island and a Catholic primary school adjoined to St Mary's in Douglas.