Joe
sorry to miss the fracas but just back from a long weekend away.
If you want to check on the facts I would strongly (& politely) refer you to A W Moore's History of the Isle of Man - published in 1900 by the then speaker of the Manx parliament and THE acknowledged expert at the time - a copy is freely available on Manxnotebook (www.manxnotebook.com/fulltext/hist1900/index.htm). I'll be very happy to argue any problems/discrepancies you may see in your family history and that accepted as Manx history for the last century.