Hi Sue
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From Sue:

"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"! "

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Looking again (with huge magnification) at that "marital status" entry for 24 yr old Margaret Corkill, I see that in the other entries the U for unmarried starts at the top with a downstroke, whereas the M for married starts at the bottom with a little curl and an upstroke. So this is almost certainly "M".

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I like your suggestion for the parents of James Callow Corkill, husband of Margaret Callow. But I'll paste below what I'd found a couple of days ago about the couple I'd suggested (James Corkill and Mary Callow) before abandoning them, on the grounds that father James's and James jr's occupations were wrong.

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Children of James Corkill and Mary Callow:

1. MARGT CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 25 MAR 1821 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

2. ELINOR CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 25 MAY 1828 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

3. EDWD CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 29 OCT 1837 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

4. WILLIAM CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 23 JAN 1831 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

5. MARY CORKHILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 20 NOV 1816 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

6. CATH CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 21 APR 1833 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

7. JAMES CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 25 MAY 1823 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

8. ROBT CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 07 JUN 1835 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

9. JANE CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 11 JAN 1819 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

10. CHARLES CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 15 NOV 1839 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

11. JOHN CORKHILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 03 MAR 1815 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

12. ESTHER CORKILL - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 22 JAN 1826 Maughold, Isle Of Man, England

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This is their household in 1841, transcribed by Ancestry as Cakill instead of Corkill:

Name Age
James Cakill 45
Mary Cakill 45
James Cakill 15
Margaret Cakill 15
Esther Cakill 15
Elenor Cakill 10
William Cakill 9
Catharine Cakill 8
Robert Cakill 5
Edward Cakill 3
Charles Cakill 2

Ballajorey
Maughold 2/1
CORKILL James 15 Maughold 1464/7 18 1

Trouble is, James 45 is a mason, and James 15 is a blacksmith's apprentice. Could they have changed occupations before the 1860 marriage of James Corkill to Margaret Callow ?

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This is Ancestry's transcription of the same family's household in 1851:

Name Age
James Corkhill 58
Mary Corkhill 59
John Corkhill 34
Robert Corkhill 14
Edward Corkhill 11
Charles Corkhill 8
Margaret Corkhill 30
Thomas Quick 3
Thomas Crowe 2
Ann Christian 1
James Bridson 3

Maughold 1a/11
Ballakilley
CORKHILL James 58 Maughold 2524 255 37

James 58 is still a mason.
They're next door to the family of William Callow, tailor.
James jr no longer in household.

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Jean C