do you know his date of birth ? - many Manx went out to South Africa in the 1890's when the Laxey mines were in decline, others went out as troops in Boer War and stayed - after that there would be a number who went out to join relatives - the Manx Quarterly carried accounts of Manx Societies in Transvaal etc but I have only scanned in a few in on my web site (manxnotebook) - strangely there are no Christians amongst the names !.