Daniel Looney & Esther Christian.
Thank you Averil for your note May 30th.
I agree with all of your findings. Esther Christian could have been the daughter of either John Christian & Marjorie Gell bap. Oct 6th 1799 at Patrick, or of Matthew Christian and Margaret Bridson bap. May 20th 1798, also at Patrick. Her death must have occurred between March 1st 1836 when her youngest son William was baptised at Maughold, and March 12th 1840 when Daniel her husband remarried with Jane Crellin. There is a recorded burial at Patrick for a Hester Looney on November 12th 1839. She was 41 years old. So that is a pointer to her being the daughter of Matthew Christian and Margaret Bridson. The burial also fits nicely into the "window" 1836-1840.
William Looney my great grandfather died at Aston Union, Erdington, Birmingham on Jan. 31st 1894. He was just 58 years old. He was described as a Carpenter of Wilton Street, Aston Manor. The cause of death was recorded as Dementia Asthenia & Syncope. What I do not know is if his death was precipitated by the fact that his son Robert ( my grandfather) had run away to sea and had volunteered on January 30th at Devonport. The fact that my grandfather had run away was well known in the family, and I have a copy of his naval records. He apparently persuaded an old lady to vouch for him when he enrolled! No one in our family had noticed that the date he joined the Navy coincided with his father's death!
A sad story! My grandfather was reconciled with his mother sometime between March 31st 1898 when he was discharged on medical grounds at Plymouth, and the time of the 1901 census at Bangor in Caernarvonshire.