I have a couple of corrections to my previous post.

In our paperwork, William (1818) married Esther Quirk (1818) in 1841 after they immigrated to the US. William has a brother John, a brother that could possibly Phillip, and a sister named Betzy (Elizabeth?) who married a Mark Christian. Esther had a sister (name and date unknown) who married a Lace (first name unknown) and they had John Lace and Lizzie Lace (most likely a nickname).

Neither myself or Steven Thomas, the person I hired to research my ancestors on the Isle of Man, have been able to find any Isle of Man records for any of them, or the people who are their parents in our paperwork, Thomas Teare and Hester (unknown last name), anywhere near Douglas. We have not been able to find an Esther Quirk in Lezayre, either.

William and Esther immigrated to the US in 1840 and were married in 1841. Both show up in US Censuses up until their deaths, though, as a married woman, Esther is always Esther Teare. We have nothing that documents her last name as Quirk.

My family paperwork says Lizzie Lace accompanied William Teare (1818)-who would have been her uncle- back to the US in 1876. She never married and shows up in the US censuses with William and Esther from then on.

All of the information that I have for William and Esther's descendants in the US has been well documented.

Steven Thomas has worked through some letter clippings that I have, and has come to the conclusion that the information we had for the Isle of Man-researched by my grandfather and great-grandfather by work of mouth-no sources exist, is most likely wrong. He has found a William Teare, born 1818 and baptised 25 Dec 1818 to William Teare (1781) in Andreas and Ellinor (Eleanor) Crow(e) (1790) in Lezayre Ayre, Isle of Man. William has a younger brother William (1814) who we assume died in infancy since they named their next child William, also. He also has a brother John, who inherited the family farm near Craig (Close e Caillee) and a sister Ellen. They were both born in 1822 and were baptised 26 Oct 1822.

I would really like to know about all my ancestors from the Isle of man. If anyone has information that can back any of this up, I would really appreciate hearing from you.

Last but not least, there is talk (message board chat) on Ancestor.com that says that the Teares are descendants of a branch of the MacIntyres of Scotland, but were banished to the Isle of Man in the 1300's for practicing witchcraft. If anyone has documentation concerning that, will you please contact me?

Hopefully, this is a little clearer than my last post.

Thank you,
Tracy