Hi. Does anyone know who the Margaret Corlett was who married John Corkill in Maughold on 23 Nov 1833? (No other details given.)
In 1851 they were at Ard, Maughold with their 6 children. John Corkill was entered as aged 41, Propr Farming 20 Acres b.Maughold, and Margaret as aged 37 born German - the only one in the family not b.Maughold.

Their children were:
1. JOHN CORKILL Christening: 19 JAN 1834 Maughold [in 1841 census aged 7]
2. WILLIAM CORKILL Christening: 03 JAN 1836 Maughold [in 1841 census aged 4]
3. MARY CORKILL Christening: 16 SEP 1838 Maughold [in 1841 census aged 3]
4. PETER CORKILL Christening: 14 FEB 1841 Maughold [Burial: “infant Son of ____ CORKILL B'Gorrey Sep 1 1842”. In 1841 census aged 5 months.]
5. MARGT CORKILL Christening: 13 AUG 1843 Maughold
6. PETER CORKILL Christening: 19 APR 1846 Maughold [in 1861 census aged 15]
7. ANNA SUSANNA IRELAND CORKILL Christening: 25 FEB 1849 Maughold [“Ann” in 1861 census aged 12]

Mother Margaret died soon afterwards: Margt CORKILL, 39, Balla Chrink buried 13 Jul 1851, and John Corkill remarried as a widower 27 Jan 1855.

I have been trying to help a descendant of John Corkill and Margaret Corlett but his tree on Ancestry follows the Corlett side with details also given by several other people. They give Margaret Corlett's birth as 1812 b.Ballaugh (one wrote Maughold) with parents William Corlett 1769-1840 & Jane Kewish 1771-1814, both b.Ballaugh. The 2 sources given for this by one person were the 1851 IOM census (which actually said she was b.German, not Ballaugh) and the 1891 census (when she was dead).

There are 14 entries on several parish registers (FamilySearch) for Margaret Corletts bapt between 1812 and 1814, but none in German. Several in Ballaugh, but how did they know which one to choose? Is she named in a parent’s will? I can’t see wills for either William Corlett d.1840 or wife Jane Kewish d.1800 (and if she died in 1800 how did she have a daughter in 1812? One person had d.1814.).

There is an 1811 will for William Corlett Parish Clerk of Ballaugh who had a daughter Margaret as one of his execs, but obviously not Margt b.1812-14.

Many of these trees have vast numbers of Corlett and Kewish relatives for the Margaret Corlett who married John Corkill, and one has her in censuses from Maughold to German to Malew to Illinois (1880) to Maughold (1881) to Lancs in 1891, then to New York when aged 93 in 1905!

I know this is typical of Ancestry (& other) family trees but I'm hoping to find a kernel of truth somewhere.

Sue