Sue, I am enormously grateful for all the information you have so kindly researched and provided me with in the four recent posts. All of this is a branch of my family I have only just discovered, it has taken me till one month before my 60th birthday to make these discoveries!! I came to live in the IOM in 1973, joining my parents who had retired here two years earlier. Until VERY recently, I had no idea that my great gramdmother was Manx born! I never knew my Grandfather and only had limited contact with my grandmother; great grandparents were never mentioned and my mother's sole surviving sister who is now 85 did not know who her grandparents were. (she was my starting point with this so she will be delighted to know all that you have told me!) I had no idea who they were until now! Again, sincere thanks for all your help, I am amazed and extremely pleased with all you have been able to find.
best wishes
Gillian