These may not be lost, but I certainly can't find them.

Just spent 4 days on the Island and searched through the civil registration indexes from 1904 to 1949 for the whole Island several times, including dissenters for the marriage, and checked freebmd when I got home in case the events took place in England after all, but I can find no trace. The names aren't very common, but I still couldn't spot them - is it my brain, my eyesight, or can anyone suggest another reason?

Birth: Robert Cavendish COLLISTER about 1906 (IOMFHS MI at Braddan: died 16 Aug 1954 aged 49)

Marriage: Robert Cavendish COLLISTER to Isabella Cavendish KERMODE (son born 1948 - register entry seen; 'Belle' buried in same plot as husband - see above)

Birth: Isabella Cavendish KERMODE about 1911 (died 8 Sep 1987 aged 76 - Braddan MI & age from IOM Independent News, by then named Brocklehurst)

Births: Dorothy Collister & Eileen Collister born between 1908 (marriage of parents Robert Clague Collister & Mary 'May' Ellen Corlett) and 1917 (father died at the Somme 1916)
I have a marriage of a Dorothy Margaret Collister d. of Robert Collister grocer's assistant to JC Bridson (surname agrees with family tradition) at age 32 in Nov 1940 at St George's, Douglas (1908) with Eileen Collister as one of the witnesses.

I have taken into consideration that the 'Cavendish' might have been omitted and that Collister can be spelt with an A.

Can anyone help?