Frances, thank you for your response! The employment information is new to us, and we'll pursue it further. The John Souter in question is my mother's grandfather, and she told me last night that he was in fact from Scotland, and married Jane Leslie in Glasgow. We have a baptism certificate indicating their son Simon was privately baptized by the rector of St. Bride in 1837.

Is there somewhere we could write to find out about any other children that might have been born on the Isle of Man? We know he had about 6 others!

TIA, Ann Owens