Eleanor, here's a correction to something I wrote in the earlier message.

I suggested that Eliza Blore Ford's mother, Charlotte, was probably a sister of William Blore b 1820. Well, I've dug more deeply and discovered that Eliza Blore Ford had a twin sister, Lydia Taylor Ford, and that their parents, Henry Ford and Charlotte Hayes, had married on Dec 25th 1837 at St Philip's Church, LP. Charlotte was almost certainly the sister of the Eliza Hayes who married Wm Blore in Braddan in 1849. Charlotte's father was Joseph Hayes, mariner (deceased in 1837)

So why did Henry Ford and Charlotte Hayes give the middle name of Blore to one of their twins ? Do you suppose that, by 1858 Wm and Eliza Blore were childless, and that Henry and Charlotte decided to let Wm and Eliza bring up one of their twins, and so they named her accordingly ?

Just a theory.

Jean C