Archive 2 has a 25 Nov 2009 thread (headed “guidance please”) started by B Carter relating to the parents of Annie Isabella Quirk / Drysdale b 1877 Rushen.

In the era before familysearch had IOM parish register scans online, davidr had kindly looked up the baptism entry at the Manx Museum. This is part of his message:

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Rushen
12th January 1878
Annie Isabella
illegitimate daughter of Annie Quirk
of Struan-snail.
Bad news: the father is not named.

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I’d been looking for a different Drysdale family with a Manx connection and came across the following entry on familysearch:

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Baptism Rushen:
Name Events Relationships View
Annie Isabella Drysdale
Isle of Man Parish Registers, 1598-2009
christening:
12 January 1878
Rushen, Isle of Man father:
Drysdale
mother:
Quirk

Image shows:
“12 Jan 1878, Annie Isabella, daughter of (Quirk) Drysdale, abode Shuan Snail, trade ship carpenter.” Then below this, inserted along the bottom of the page, is written:
“corrected thus Annie Isabella illegitimate daughter of Annie Quirk of Struansnail, corrected by me E W Kissack vicar on the second day of June 1879, signed E W Kissack in presence of Thos Moore and Thos Kneen church wardens.”

Does this mean that there were 2 parallel birth registers and davidr saw the other version at the MM back in 2009 ?

Having failed to find any further references to this Quirk / Drysdale family on this site, I’m posting this message here now so that if anyone is searching current and archived messages, looking for clues to Annie Isabella’s birth father, this might be useful.

I’ve looked at various trees on Ancestry which relate to this family and can’t find any reference to this particular baptism entry. When Annie (as Annie Isabella Drysdale) married William Robert Teare at St Barnabas, Braddan, in May 1894, she gave her age as 18 and her father’s details as James Drysdale, timber merchant. I wonder how much she actually knew about her birth father, other than his surname and that he lived in Liverpool. Ship carpenter to timber merchant seems unlikely ? There was a James Drysdale joiner / ship carpenter (married to Jemima nee Jones) who could have been the right one. There was also a family of Drysdale timber merchants ---a different family ?

Annie’s age was 3 in 1881 and 13 in 1891, so she was probably only 16 at her marriage in 1894.

Jean C