Hi Sue:

Thanks indeed for the copies of the wills of William Kermeen and Anne Kermeen which you sent of line. I'm gratfeul to have them as will others when Brian Lawson posts them on line.

I note, as you say, that the wills refer to John Kermeen as son and that the one place where Anne refers to John as her "own Natural Son" comes immediately after a reference to her son in law Thos Corkill. Your point then that, taken in context about a shared inheritance it does not mean illegitimate is well taken. In other wills I have read from places other than the Isle of Man "natural son" did indeed refer to illegitimate.