Hi Adrienne,

I was waiting for Carol to answer you because she has followed up the family much further than I had. Elinor's marriage to John Cleator is included in the letters of William Radcliffe of Chester which are held by the Manx Museum, and copied for us by Ian Radcliffe.

I thought that this published information about the earlier family might also be of interest to you:

”Radcliffe y Vayr. Alice Radcliffe, second daughter of John Belfast and his wife Jane Teare married Thomas Radcliffe her second cousin in 1717.The description "y Vayr" (of the road) applied to Thomas has puzzled many, and has been variously interpreted as meaning one who lived by the road, or who was overseer of the parish highways (such as they were in the early eighteenth century.)” [C.K. Radcliffe]

“…This Thomas Radcliffe had a son Thomas, born 1690-95, and married Alice the daughter of John Radcliffe of Old Belfast, in 1718. He and many of his descendants were known as 'y Vair' or 'y Voar'. Thomas Radcliffe…. had seven children, one of whom, Thomas, shoemaker and weaver, purchased the Cronk Breck in Ballachurry quarterland. By Ann Sayle, his wife, he had a younger son James born in 1760 who lived at the Lhen Moar and was a noted codfisher and weaver. He built the cottage in which he lived by his own hands. His great grandson was the well-known schoolmaster of Andreas, William Radcliffe, whose patronymic "Billy-Harry-Jemmy-Jem-Hom-Voar-y Sundher", is a remarkable example of how the country people preserved the long records of their descent and incidentally proves the connection of the 'Voar' branch with the other Sundher families. George Radcliffe, uncle to William the Schoolmaster, emigrated to the U.S.A. and was one of the pioneer house builders in Cleveland, Ohio. Another brother James became a farmer in the U.S.A. and the descendants of John, the eldest of this generation, emigrated to Australia.” [R.CUNLIFFE SHAW]

Sue