I see on Manx Notebook that Paul Corran, tanner, is in John Quane's will -

"It is hereby my will and wish to be allow and permit of [11] John Corran tanner Drumgold Street to hold the tanyard & and all the pr**** recited for the term of five years free from paying any rent for the time? for the *** por to enable to make every necessary repairs also to make new where wanted to the whole to be finished about the end of the forth year and direct my trustee's to fulfil the same this 20th January 1834 JOHN QUANE."

Why wouldn't Mr. Quane bequeath anything to Paul's wife Mary if she is indeed his daughter? Is that just the way it was back then?

Thnx, Carol