That's interesting, many thanks Frances. I like the idea of Robert having to promise to follow the plough as plowman, along with his father.

I have been sidetracked away from John Corkill & Ann Kissag to John's brother James's descendants because of the mess they are in with multiple trees on Ancestry. CR would never have imagined that work she did for someone in the US would spread like wildfire. If you get the chance at some stage would you mind please having a look at his wife Bahee Corkill als Lawson's A 85 1815 Maughold will which might prove me wrong?

Sue