I have Eliza Sayle born Bride1837 (exact date unconfirmed – she doesn't appear to be christened according to IGI.) I have noticed, though from other North Country (English) lines that it was common for children not to be christened until they were about 5. I had no idea about John Kewley Sayle, although it fits beautifully. The 1861 census seems to say illegt SON (my caps), not grandson. Have I missed something? I was fortunate to visit IOM in 2005 and have been hankering to get back ever since but Australia is a bit far to pop over. I got Eliza's marriage cert to John Corkan (Kirkmichael) at Ballaugh. He appears in the 1851 census in Kirkmichael and is in the Kirkmichael burial register for Dec 21 1861. (I have copies of all these if you'd like them. Contact me, stephen.john.21 (notice the dots) at my hotmail address.) She then disappears off the radar until Nov 7th 1869 when as Elizabeth Corkan she married Henry Sidebotham at Manchester Cathedral (copy held – the certificate, not the Cathedral!). I believe she died in South Manchester in 1903, but I don't yet hold her death cert which is probably Chorlton Sep Q 1903 8c 530. I have the following key dates to her life:
1841 age 6 Ballacottier, Andreas (census); 1851 Albert Row, Maughold (servant) (census); 1860 “Ballaugh” (Mar cert); 1861 no record, any ideas?; 1869 7 Glebe Place, Longsight, Manchester (mar cert); 1871 21 Belmont Terrace Chorlton Manchester; 1881 40 Crosfield Road, West Derby Liverpool (laundress); I haven't investigated but didn't Ann Cowle Sayle go to West Derby?; 1891 25 Clitheroe Street, Moss Side Manchester; 1901 13 Ogilvie Street South Manchester; 1911 (don't have this census); 1903 Death in Chorlton, Manchester. She had 3 children, Alice Ann, Henry and Elizabeth. I'm descended from this Henry (grandfather).
One curiosity. She apparently signed her IOM marr cert to John Corkan, but made her mark on her marr cert to Henry Sidebotham. Any thoughts? Any other info, needless to say, very welcome!