I worked out who I thought was the most likely family from information which you put on the board from Margaret Hardy's 1815 Bride will. [Cath bapt 12 DEC 1781 Bride (eldest child), William bapt 2 FEB 1785 Maughold (eldest son).]
On 14 Sept 2007 you wrote:
"I received the Will of Margaret Hardy, nee Christian, the only family member's it states is her 2 daughter's Margaret & mary, also her sister Cathrine Christian, the witnesses & executive of her will are William Christian & John Bridson, the executive of guardian & supervision of the under age children are
William Christian and John Kneale of Bride.
I have the name of her daughter Mary's husband when she grew was John Quarry, I cannot read the name of Daughter margaret's husband, but obviously her sister Cathrine had not married by 1815 when this will took place, Margaret Hardy was pregnant when she made this will, but as yet have not found another child to this marriage, unless it died".
Please see my reasoning (which needs confirmation and may be wrong) here:
http://www.isle-of-man.com/cgi-bin/interests/genealogy/bulletin/index.pl?noframes;read=517051
You need to look at the parish registers for all the family members identified in that long thread of messages, of which mine above was only one, because they changed parishes.
- Please read through them and make a list of ones to look up on LDS film. You can find a Family History Centre under "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" in the phone book.
As well as looking up all the later members of Margaret's family, if you put "William Christian" and "Margaret Cowle" as father and mother on the IGI on Familysearch.org and Event "birth/christening; Region: British Isles; Country: Isle of Man, then Search, you will see a list of their children.
If you click on Margaret's name you will see at the bottom of the screen "Source Information" and that her bapt date of 17 SEP 1786 Ramsey is under 1761-1849 on LDS film number 0106741 which you can order to view at a FHC.
If you click on that film number, and then on Parish register transcripts, 1761-1849, and then on "View Film Notes" it will usually tell you exactly what is on that film which might also include marriages and burials.
Several members of the family can be seen on the Ramsey film, but you also need to order Bride and Maughold for the others, and especially Bride, in case these entries give you extra clues such as place names.
If you look up Source Information for all her possible family members from the IGI extracted entries (ignore members' entries) these will give you the film numbers you need.
Bride Baptisms, marriages, burials 1693-1849 are on LDS Film no. 0106713.
The youngest child was bapt 1795 Ramsey, so you could check for Ramsey burials (on film - not indexed on Brian Lawson's website). Also for Ramsey / Maughold wills which could be those of Margaret [Cowle] and William Christian, and check those - LDS numbers on Brian's website. You would probably need to order several wills films because Christian was such a common name in the IoM.
Margaret Hardy's 1815 Maughold burial has no other information.
Sue