Hi - I'm VERY new to this, and am having no luck finding who I'm searching for, so suspect I'm looking in the wrong places!
So far, I have a mystery to solve, in that my paternal g/grandmother was called Starkey (known as Jessie) and had 3 children: Laura and Winnie who lived together as spinsters near Coronation Park, Ramsey all their lives, and my Grandfather James (Jim) but his surname was HEANEY - different to his mother and sisters, and nobody seems to know why! Regardless of why, I just can't seem to find any Starkeys to match, and no Heaneys at all. My Grandmother Heaney was Taggart before marriage and so far as I know, all Starkeys were from Ramsey and the Taggarts may have begun in Douglas then moved to Ramsey...where do I start looking??? The census for 1841 & 1861 don't have any matching christian names.....