i have heard on history sites that people in the past years often started to have children within the first year of marridge( if not already pregnant ) my father joined the navy as a boy of about 17 or 18 in 1939, both my parants were from douglas, on his navy papers it says next of kin wife then gives my mums name and their address as ballasalla huts ( it gives me the full address but i have left this of here) but they did not get married untill 1940 and in douglas, there first child was not born till 1944, do you think there may have been a child befor 1944 as it seems to me 4 years is a long time did you have to have children to have a house in the huts , i dont think there was talk of a child befor 1944 but could it be possible, i often wonder why they went from douglas to ballasalla then back to douglas about 1951 there was only two of us born in douglas the rest in the parish of malew