Hi to Sue and JC;

First of all, yes the Arthur Brown was a draper and lived at Seamount in Ramsey from c1900.
He had served his time as a draper in Peel, and then ran a shop at 4/6 Market St, which still survives. At some time in the late 1890s, he opened a second shop in Ramsey, Glasgow House. This was on the Market Place in Ramsey and if you stand on the corner where the Swimming baths (which are about to be replaced) are, the grassy area next to where the coach stand is was the shop. Arthur decided that he could not give proper personal attention to two shops in different towns, so later sold the Peel business.

Christiana Corrin and Arthur Brown had a son Arthur Merrence (sometimes spelled Merrance)who was born 1890 and died aged 3 months. I do not have a clue where Merrence (whatever the spelling) comes from. At a guess it might be from Charlotte Chapman's side as there is no other obvious trace.
After little arthur died, they had three more sons, John Powell Brown, Harold Christian Joughin Brown, Greetham Brown and finally my Mother, Christine May Elaine, who was a much longed for daughter who arrived in 1906 and was totally spoiled by everyone !

The names present some problems, Powell (which is also my middle name) first appeared with John Powell Corrin, who was Christiana Corrin's brother. Again no obvious Joughin or Corrin trace, so I am inclinedto attribute it to the mysterious CHapman line. Harold's names are straightforward enough, but he hated them and dropped CHristian Joughin, and adopted CHAPMAN by deed poll. Greetham is another unusual name with no previous trace.

For JC - Wow; many thanks for the data. A marriage in Liverpool is NOT something I had expected, and that explains why a very thorough search in the IOM, that I have repeated several times, failed to turn it up.
That really is fantastic.

Robert