Gawne Cain genealogy
I think that I am able to throw light on a puzzle in the genealogy of Gawnes and Quirks that has continued since A W Moore’s Manx Families. The key is that Jane Gawne Shuttleworth who married William Cain at Rushen in 1810 was the same woman Jane Gawne Cain, now widowed, who married Phillip Quirk in 1823 giving birth to Robert Charles Quirk who was the last Quirk of Knockaloe. This Jane Gawne Cain is the daughter of the Jane Gawne who was aunt to Edward Moore Gawne and who had married Charles Shuttleworth in Liverpool in 1788 ( Doctor Charles Shuttleworth according to A W Moore).
The evidence for this is the entry in the parish register for Malew on 8th November 1823 of the marriage of Philip Quirk and Jane Gawne Cain, widow; signed “Jane Gawne Quirk late Cain”. Also the will of Jane Shuttleworth, alias Gawne (Archdeacon’s wills 1822 no. 18) and the several later documents of release appended to it. This confirms an earlier conjecture which arose from our family tradition. My grandfather Barton Gawne Cain who was born in 1873 told us that we had an ancestor Jane Gawne Quirk mother of the last Quirk of Knockaloe, but this was difficult to understand. However if Jane Gawne Cain married again it is explained. By her first marriage, to William Cain, Jane Gawne had a son William Edward Cain who became tidewaiter at Peel and in his turn had sons Edward Gawne Cain and Barton Shuttleworth Cain.
Two further factors have confused subsequent genealogists. Firstly the brothers-to-sisters marriages of Jane Gawne and Elizabeth Ann Shuttleworth to William and John Cain and secondly the long memorial inscription in the old churchyard of Kirk Rushen (reference ZH12) which is patently impossible and either incorrect or unsubstantiated in many of its elements.
The GAWNE genealogy can thus be extended:
Generation No. 3
7 . EDWARD3 GAWN (THOMAS2, THOMAS1)
Children of EDWARD GAWN and JANE TAUBMAN are:
ii. JANE GAWN b. Bef. 18 November 1766, Rushen, Isle of man. m. Dr. CHARLES SHUTTLEWORTH at St Nicholas Church Liverpool on 9th February 1789. She was buried at Kirk Rushen Isle of Man on 28th December 1821.
Generation No. 4
Children of CHARLES SHUTTLEWORTH and JANE GAWN are:
i. JANE2 GAWNE SHUTTLEWORTH baptized 19th April 1789 in Kirk Rushen. She married (1) WILLIAM CAIN of Port Erin on 20th September 1810 in Kirk Rushen. He was later a merchant in Castletown. After the death of her husband WILLIAM CAIN and his burial in Kirk Rushen on 28th July 1823 she married (2) PHILIP QUIRK of Scarlett on 8th November 1823. He was baptized 16 Jul 1799, in Malew. He inherited Knockaloe in the parish of Patrick after the death of his nephew JAMES JOHN QUIRK in 1834.
ii. ELIZABETH ANN SHUTTLEWORTH baptized 26 December 1790 in Kirk Rushen. She married JOHN CAIN , brother of WILLIAM CAIN above, on 18 October 1818 in Kirk Rushen. He was an advocate in Castletown and he was buried in Rushen on 1st November 1832. Having lived in Castletown she herself was buried in Rushen on 1st November 1869 at the age of 78.
iii. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH baptized 27th March 1792 in Kirk Rushen and buried on 3 May that same year.
Generation No. 5
Children of JANE GAWNE SHUTTLEWORTH and WILLIAM CAIN are:
i. JANE3 GAWNE CAIN baptized 28 August 1811 at Rushen, married BARTON NICHOLAS BAYLEY at Malew on 21 December 1841, he died 16 June 1866 and is buried at Marown. She may be ‘the niece reared by Capt Quilliam’
ii. WILLIAM2 EDWARD CAIN baptized at Kirk Rushen 25 February 1813. On 11th September 1836 in St Philips Liverpool he married MARY JANE HALL who was baptized 10 September 1816 at Little Hulton, Lancashire. He was a watchmaker in Castletown and later Tidewaiter in Peel. 3 November 1843)
iii. MATTHEW TAUBMAN CAIN baptized at Kirk Rushen 15 February 1815
Children of JANE GAWNE SHUTTLEWORTH and PHILIP QUIRK are:
i. ROBERT CHARLES QUIRK baptized on 22 May 1824 and who died without issue on 29 September 1868, being the last Quirk of Knockaloe.
ii. ELIZABETH ANN QUIRK born 17 May 1826 at Malew.
Children of ELIZABETH ANN SHUTTLEWORTH and JOHN CAIN are:
i. JOHN2 CAIN who died Bef. 27th August 1846 at age 28 without issue,
ii. CHARLES SHUTTLEWORTH CAIN who was baptized 12th April 1827. He married CLARISSA KELLY (aged about 21)on 6th November 1856 at Marown. He died after 1857
Generation No. 6
Children of JANE GAWNE CAIN and BARTON NICHOLAS BAYLEY
i. EDITH SHUTTLEWORTH BAYLEY who married THOMAS CORLETT of Ballagarraghyn.
Children of WILLIAM EDWARD CAIN and MARY HALL
i. WILLIAM HENRY CAIN born 16th August 1837,
ii. ESTHER CAIN baptized 10 February 1839 in St Mary’s Castletown,
iii. MARY ELIZABETH CAIN baptized February 1840 in Castletown.
iv. EDWARD GAWNECAIN baptized 3rd November 1843 in Kirk German. He was a ship’s carpenter married MARGARET COLLISTER (baptized 22 Aug 1847 Kirk Rushen) Abt. 21 May 1872 in Kirk German. They moved to Liverpool where Edward was a shipwright
v. BARTON SHUTTLEWORTH born on 23rd December 1846