Everything that Brian says in his latest message I agree with, except the name Begaby, which would be Regaby, and with the possible exception of the 1851 census. That year Daniel was lodging in Cannell’s Lane, Ramsey, with Peter (tailor or dairyman from Douglas) and Isabella Cannell. He was unmarried, a grocer. I picked up this entry in the library of the Manx Museum in 1974, when I think we were still handed the original enumeration books. I didn’t pick it up some years later at the Public Record Office in London, and the fact that Brian has not picked it up either makes me think that that page, or even book, might not have been filmed.

This Daniel is too young to have been the father of either William (b 1837/8) or Catherine (b 1843) who gave Daniel Joughin, farmer, as their father on marriage. The two Daniel Joughins that we know to be farmers were married quarterland farmers at Ballaquark, Bride, and Rhenab, Maughold, and producing their own extensive legitimate families. It is most unlikely that either would be the father.

My best guess is that the father was Daniel Joughin, baptised 31st January 1819 at Maughold, son of Robert Joughin and Mary Garrett. He was orphaned at a very young age, and eventually married Eleanor Caley at Lonan in 1853. It was this Lonan connection to 1837/8 William that put me onto him, for William’s family stayed in Lonan for the next hundred years. But even that tenuous connection begins to evaporate on looking into it further. Daniel and Eleanor had a daughter, Mary Ann, baptised at Lonan 4 months after the wedding. Daniel then vanishes. In 1861 Mary Ann is with her grandparents Caley at 16 Ballaragh, Lonan, while her mother is a servant to George W. Dumbell, the (in)famous banker, in Douglas. She is said to be married, but less than a year after the census she remarries, on 14th Jan 1862, to James Forsyth.

We do have a possible Lonan connection with Catherine. As has been pointed out, I was wrong in my feeling that Mrs. Corrin was not Mira’s mother. Now the IGI has a baptism at Lonan on 26th August 1866 of Margaret Ann, daughter of Catherine Joughin. Could that be Mira’s mother again?

We end up with orphan Daniel, born in 1819 who gets three women into trouble: the mother of William in about 1837, the much older Margery Teare, mother of Catherine, in about 1843, and Eleanor Caley, the mother of Mary Anne, in 1853. He marries this last before the birth, and gives his occupation as miner, though he could have been a farmer at other times. Catherine (b 1837) has Margaret Ann in 1866 and Mira in 1869, and marries Paul Corrin in 1877. Possible?