Hi Valerie,

I could be barking up the wrong tree entirely here but I recently received some items from my uncle regarding my Bridson family line and something in your message caught my eye.

My Mother was a Bridson, her father was Marhshall Bridson and he was one of 6 or 7 children. Any way there is a family grave in Braddan with the following members in:

Francis Bridson Could be Frances, not 100% sure age 46yrs died 1918
Francis May Bridson Died age 60 yrs in LONDON in 1966
James Bridson died age 2 months 1927, I think this was a brother to my mum
James Bridson died age 46yrs 1912

It was the Francis May that caught my eye with your Francis Alice. You see Both Francis and Alice were family names and my Bridson's were really into family names being passed on again and again, even to giving the girls boys names, i.e. one of my mum's sisters was Joyce Marshall Bridson!

Are we connected by any chance?

Kind regards

Sue