Hi David

Having looked at trees on Ancestry, I can’t find any which seem to have the correct census entries apart from Griffin Family Tree (janeyg50) which has the right 1901 census..... I’m assuming that your Alfred Callister married Christian Anna Quayle in 1894.

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Name Alfred Callister
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 25 Oct 1894
Event Place St Barnabas, Braddan, Isle of Man
Gender Male
Marital Status Single
Father's Name William Callister
Spouse's Name Christian Anna Quayle
Spouse's Gender Female
Spouse's Marital Status Single
Spouse's Father's Name William Quayle

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1891
47 Orchard St, Royton, Lancs

Ancestry’s transcription:

Name Age
Abraham Gremer 28
Elizabeth Gremer 27
Florence Gremer 4
Gordon Gremer 2
Thomas Gremer 8/12
James Ecallester 25
Alfred Ecallester 19
Charles Knedle 23

notes:
Alfred Callister (no middle initial) lodger, unm, 19, mason b Ramsey IOM
with a James E Callister lodger unm 25 stone waller b Laxey IOM

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1901
17 Wesley Terrace, Douglas

Ancestry’s transcription:
Name Age
Alfred Calliste 32
Christian Calliste 39
Mary J Calliste 6
Elizabeth Calliste 4
Alfred E Calliste 1

notes:
Alfred Callister mason b Ramsey
CC wife b Marown
chn b Douglas

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1911
11 Albany St, Douglas

Ancestry’s transcription:

Name Age
Alfred Collester 43
Christain Collester 48
May Collester 14
Edward Collester 11

notes:
Alfred Collister mason b Ramsey
CC b Marown
chn b Douglas

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So Alfred gave his birth year as: 1870 (marriage),1872 in 1891, 1869 in 1901 and 1868 in 1911. Having married a woman who was born in 1862/3 (baptised Jan 1863), he may have added a few years to his age at census time in 1901 and 1911.

When his son Alfred Edward Collister b 1899 married Laura Killey in 1921, he gave his father’s details as Alfred Edward Collister deceased mason. But sometimes people guessed or invented their father’s christian names so may not be reliable.

I can’t find a legitimate birth so started looking at possible illegitimate births.
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Here’s a possibility for Alfred Callister in 1871:

1871
26 Hope St, Douglas

Ancestry’s transcription:

Name Age
Elizabeth Collister 49
William Collister 18
Emily Collister 16
Isabella Collister 13
Frances Collister 10
Esther Graham 34
Earnest Alped Graham 2
James Connelly 40
Jno Wm Brown 20

Elizabeth Collister was a widow (from an earlier census, her late husband was a William Collister). Esther Graham was a widow/niece. Ernest Alfred Graham was Esther’s illegit son. Perhaps he spent his early years in this household and thought of the Collisters as his family.

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IGI baptism:

(mistranscription)

Ernest Alfred Knockaloe
Isle of Man Parish Registers
Other information in the record of
Other information in the record of and
from Isle of Man Parish Registers
Event Type Christening
Event Date 12 Jun 1868
Event Place Maughold, Isle of Man
Gender Male
Father's Name Robt Chr Quirk Knockaloe
Mother's Name Esther Graham

note:
actual entry reads:
Ernest Alfred, illegit son of Esther Graham of Douglas (and added in pencil....reputed father Robt Chr Quirk, Knockaloe)

Esther was a widow (nee Cowley ?)

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But this is only one possibility for the identity of Alfred Callister. I can’t find him (or Esther) in 1881.

Jean C