My ggrandfather Thomas Airey RICHARDSON was supposedly something to do with the Manx Parliament according to some of his grandchildren (my aunts and uncles), but nobody knows any details. He was born in Whitehaven Cumberland in 1856 and his wife was Margaret (Maggie). On both the 1881 and 1901 census, he is shown with addresses in Cumbria. Does anyone know how I can check this fact?