Suzanne, this is a quick reply as your message looks as if it is about to fall off the bottom of the bulletin board.

Your great-grandfather W. J. Clucas Joughin was at various times a grocer, journalist, inventor and patenter. He wrote a book for boys called Gorry, son of Orry (King of the Island). He had a younger brother, John Joseph (whose descendant John Joughin has made contact with me), who was the Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths for the Peel district, and did some useful work recording monumental inscriptions. Their father John (1830-1901) was a Member of the House of Keys from 1876 to 1900. He had a shop in Michael Street, Peel that was featured in one of Peter Kelly’s Nostalgia columns in the Manx Independent in 1998, and a net factory.

If you would like to send me an e-mail with your postal address I will send you what I have, including WJCJ’s obituary in the Manx Quarterly, downloaded from the Internet, though I see that Frances Coakley put it there, with a copyright sign against her name, and in view of the bulletins recently posted on that topic she might jump in at this point.