Philip and many others can be found in Brian Lawson's birth index.

Thomas Bridson and Margaret Hastings can be seen in the 1881 census at Malew Street Castletown with more children.

Margaret came from Patrick, daughter of John Hastings and Margaret Redpath. The mother appears to have remarried to a Quilliam.

Thomas ,I guess, was the son of Edward Bridson and Jane Quay but there are other possibilties.

Len Faragher