My great grandfather was John ffinlo and live in Dalby. My grandfather John Joseph emigrated to Wales in the early 1900s where my father, David ffinlo, was born. I have always understood that there were two prominent families called Quirk: ours who were farmers and fishermen and theirs who were, and still are I believe, coal merchants. "We" didn't talk to "them" because, as my favourite aunt explained to me thirty years ago "they drank". My grandfather was a Hell and Brimstone lay preacher with the result that my father became an atheist at the age of three-and-a-half and a whisky drinker at eleven. I am a rather ribald publican so I'm sure I'd get on with the other Quirks famously. I'm given to understand that I am the son of the family's eldest surviving son. I have a cousin who is keen on family trees and I'll ask him about Brydon. Two of my second cousins, Walter and Lesley (both dead) were very prominent members of the Manx community. Lesley was something of an expert in the language. I last saw him in 1968. They both had several children.
Regards,
Tim