Hopefully, this will go through this time as Francis says she has sorted it out.

Francis Two points here. Have you got the right Gicks? There is so much confusion over the coincidences of marriage such as two, at least, married to Jane Moores.

Also, the family and farming would have been breaking up by that census. William died in abt 1837.
Because of the Industrial revolution in England, particularly in Lancashire, and the whole of the North, it was attracting people from farming - more work, more money.

People aspiring to government office, and therefore to have greater influence in a Britain growing in world power by the day, were picking up land cheap in order to seek such office.

The world had never experienced before such changes, and one in which Britain dominated.

Empire was opening doors to emigrants from this country.

A knowledge, and understanding of history, especially of this dramatic period, is essential for understanding the changing social conditions, sometimes overnight, that affected our ancestors at this time.

Farming was in great decline as farmers sold off, and some even lost, their land and emigrated.

When I am in the records office in Douglas, hopefully soon,I will try to research again from where I got my information.

I have a habit of jotting stuff down on scraps of paper at the time, then mislaying it before I can record it more permanently. (I am changing slowly)