Hi Jean & Kevin,

Jean, about your suggestion for the bapt of James Callow Corkill, husband of Margaret Callow, did you find him in a census? (Sorry, I'm a bit muddled with the Ancestry census indexes you posted, because my computer is too slow to swap between them easily!)

I thought that this bapt was probably his, unless a census says differently?
James Callow son of James Corkill & Cath Corkill bapt 18 Sep 1836.
He was their eldest child.
Siblings were:
CORKILL Cath [daur of] James Corkill/ Cath Corkill [bapt] Parish Church 4 Nov 1838
CORKILL Thomas James Corkill/ Cath Corkill Parish Church 14 Feb 1841
CORKILL David James Corkill/ Cath Corkill Parish Church 6 Feb 1843
CORKILL Mary James Corkill/ Cath Corkill Parish Church 10 Aug 1845

James Corkill & Catherine Corkill married 13 Dec 1834 Maughold.

1841 Maughold census:
2 10 46 Dreemskerry
James CORKILL 35 Shoemaker Isle of Man
Catharine CORKILL 35 Isle of Man
James CORKILL 4 Isle of Man
Catharine CORKILL 3 Isle of Man
Thomas CORKILL 4 m Isle of Man

1851 Maughold census [It looks like Rowan? (next to Ballakilley)]
Name: James Corkill
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1805
Where born: Maughold, Isle of Man, Isle of Man
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Catharine Corkill
Household schedule number: 77
Household Members: Name Age
James Corkill 46 Farmer of 50 acres [all b.Maughold]
Catharine Corkill wife 48
James C Corkill son 14
Catharine Corkill daur 12
Thomas Corkill son 10
David Corkill son 8
Mary Corkill daur 6

Father could be:
James son of David Corkill & Mary Callow bapt 24 Feb 1805 Private baptism.
Mother: Catharine daur of John Corkill & Christian Cannell bapt 23 Jan 1803
OR Catharine daur of Thomas Corkill & Margaret Fargher bapt 5 Dec 1802!

I'm inclined to think Cath 1802 is the one because of where they were living in the censuses. Which would make her Margaret's aunt, and James Callow Corkill and wife Margaret first cousins.

Thomas Corkill 1777-1869 & Margaret Fargher were from a branch of the Ballajora family who had purchased intacks on Dreemskerry Hill (note where James & Cath were in the 1841 census). The eldest son John Corkill 1773-1859 had inherited Ballajora farm, and Patrick 1774-1843 and Thomas 1777-1869 bought the intacks opposite each other. Thomas's son John 1816-1872 marr. Eleanor Kelly of Lonan and was living next to Thomas & Margaret in two of the censuses I posted.

There is another snippet. I noticed that you wrote "Mar" for Margaret Corkill when she was aged 24, shortly after her marriage, and with her grandfather Thomas Corkill in the 1861 census. This was what Tom Corteen wrote in his transcripts, but the scan has "U" unmarr. Tom was usually so careful with his transcripts that I wondered whether he had researched this family and knew she was married, so changed his transcript - which would indicate that Margaret was indeed Margaret Corkill als Callow, and the Margaret Callow aged 14 who was also with her Corkill grandfather in the 1851 census?

I've just had yet another look at the scan, and although the other names have "Widr" or "Mar" or "Un", it is possible that Margt's entry has "M" rather than "U"? It looks the same as the first letter of "Mar" AND the first letter of "Un"!

Whichever, I still think that it is Margaret Corkill als Callow with her grandfather Thomas Corkill farmer aged 81 [in 1861] in those two censuses.

Thomas bapt 21 Dec 1777 Onchan was the 3rd son of John (known as Juan Dick) Corkill 1747-1823 of Ballajora and Margaret Cannell of Ballaskeally, Onchan.

Sue