A correction needs to be made. In the 4th paragraph of the Aug 14 note, I said that my favoured potential parents for William Gelling born ca 1794 would be Robert Gelling the schoolmaster and Jane Kelly. However Jean Corkett sent me a note that refutes that.

Marg had sent Jean a copy of the marriage entry in the register for William Gelling & Margaret Quine (Marg's ancestors), and William has signed with an X.

However, Jean has a copy of the admin papers of Jane Gelling als Kelly who died in childbed in 1795, and in 1807 her son William signed off that he had received his inheritance. As befitting a son of a schoolmaster, he produced a beautiful signature. We should expect nothing less from a child of a schoolmaster, and it would be unlikely he'd sign his marriage with an X mark (assuming he hadn't broken his arm). Now I'd like to figure out where this particular William went to after 1807.

But meanwhile, it would seem we have eliminated 2 out of 3 potential candidates for William Gelling born ca 1793 (the other one of Ballamillaghyn died early) and it only leaves John Gelling and Isabella Cavendish. I'm still not 100% convinced because the naming of children isn't a good match. There's a marriage of a William Gelling and Elizabeth Caine in 1793 Braddan that would be excellent but the IGI doesn't produce any children.

Re Isabella Cavendish, who married a John Gelling in 1788 and had 11 children, it would seem she lived past 1851. She is "Widow Gelling" age 65 in 1841 at Shaw's Brow Douglas, with Elizabeth Gelling age 16. In 1851 Isabella is at the same address, a widow age 84 b England with granddaughter Elizabeth 26, a dressmaker b Braddan. Elizabeth works out to be the illegitimate daughter b 1825 of John & Isabella's daughter Sarah G and Felix McKewin, before Sarah married John Shimmin. The burial index has an Isabella Gelling age 89 buried 1856 Braddan and it looks like she left a will. It would be wonderful if somebody could check this will.