Bruce and Sylvia, thank you for your astonishingly quick responses. I am a genealogy neophyte and just searched around your website last night so please excuse dumb questions (or feel free to point me to a good source for addressing these basic questions).
- Do you think it was valid to make the leap from a birthdate of 1824 to the christening record?
- Is there a way of searching the entire 1841 census for Edward Cowin (I found another one in Maughold but too old)?
- Are there censuses for 1830, 1850 etc.? Is looking at later censuses a good way to start figuring out when he may have emigrated? It appears that he married in the US.
Thanks in advance for any and all responses.