For those 46 or so of you not privvy to the ensueing frantic e-mail exchanges, Dianna and I have common G.G.Grandparents and working from both ends (me from Mann, she from Indianna) we have re-united two family branches long-since separated.
Now to try to contact the other descendants of the thirteen children of our common ancestor, Francis Richmond (b. 1811 Liverpool), a gardener in the Ramsey/Lezayre area who married Elizabeth Holland in Maughold in 1835. Their children were all christened in Ramsey or Maughold or at St Peter's Liverpool - if you recognise anyone please get in touch - their names and dates of baptism are:
Frederick Richmond 10th September 1837 Ramsey
Robert Richmond 22 September 1839 Maughold
Claudius Richmond 1st May 1842 Maughold
Francis Richmond 20 December 1846 Maughold(Dianna's ancestor)(married Ann Quayle, Lezayre 1878)Gardener and farmer in Lezayre
Cordelia Richmond 20 December 1846 Maughold(married John Glass in Douglas, 1872)
Elizabeth Evans Richmond 6th August 1847 St Peters Liverpool
Eleanor Richmond 29th March 1849 St Peters Liverpool
Henry Richmond 12th August 1849 Maughold
Margaret Richmond 5th December 1850 St Peters Liverpool
Ann Richmond 17th October 1851 St Peters Liverpool
James Richmond 11th March 1853 St Peters Liverpool
Alfred Fletcher Richmond 2nd October 1854 St Peters Liverpool, married Fanny Rathbone)(my ancestor) Market Gardner in Lezayre and Crosby
Edgar Richmond 5th October 1851 Maughold(Married Margaret Kermeen 1880, Lezayre)
Fruiterer in Ramsey
As far as I know only Francis, Edgar and Alfred remained in the Isle of Man to raise families.
Alfred's daughter Elsie married Ernest Killip (my Grandfather) in Crosby December 1914 - after serving in France, he taught in Liverpool (1918-1924) and Ramsey (1924-1936) and was the first headteacher at Laxey School until he retired.
Dianna's ancestor Francis's daughter Mary Richmond married George Strickett they had daughters Marion and Edna and emigrated to Canada and then to Chicago in 1924.
Any information gratefully recieved.
Ian