The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has the details of your grandfathers death under the name Thomas Corlett and gives his age at 36.

The 1881 census has in Douglas:-

at 34 Barrack Street,

Mary Corlett, Housewife,26 Douglas
William Corlett 1.

Mary appears to have married William R. Corlett in Braddan in Sept. 1877 and could be the daughter of John Skillicorn and Elizabeth Colledge. John was a blacksmith living at 17 Athol Lane Douglas.

William Robert Corlett is probably the mate on board the boat 'Bessy' under William Maddrell and sailing out of Braddan. His age is given as 31 so fits the son of Thomas Corlett and Margaret Cowley from Patrick Parish which includes Foxdale.

Did your grandfather marry Jane Reilly in 1903 as seen in Brian Lawson's marriage index ?

Len Faragher