Helen, we had a long discussion on this board about John Maxwell Brew in March 2004.
Did you order the English death and marriage certs from the details you were given? And look at the Canadian b/d/ms and census?

These were two of 9 or 10 messages about John Maxwell Brew:
http://www.isle-of-man.com/cgi-bin/interests/genealogy/bulletin/index.pl?noframes;read=497483
http://www.isle-of-man.com/cgi-bin/interests/genealogy/bulletin/index.pl?noframes;read=497467

I'll be interested to see what you found after following our suggestions, so that we can perhaps suggest more sources to build on to the new information.

Sue