Marg, what do you think about Len's conclusion that your Catherine, and Catherine Ann Quilleash who married Cannan, were different people? - That she was not Catherine Quilleash as you thought, but Catherine Clague?

Do you remember where the Quilleash information came from?

Originally you thought her husband -- Cannan died and she then married William Henry Sharpe, but we now know that it was Mary CHESWORTH (not Cath) who married Wm Henry Sharpe, and you recognised her as your grandmother.

Maughold marriage 19 Jan 1865:
James SHARP Full age Widower Weaver Braddan, [father] William Sharp, Weaver, and
Catharine CANNAN Full age Widow Ramsey, [father] Joseph Clague, Shoemaker.

A James SHARP aged 70, Ramsey, was buried Maughold Dec 21 1865, and a James SHARP aged 47 was buried Braddan 8 March 1868. He alternatively could have been buried Ramsey (not indexed).

William Henry Sharpe was bapt Ramsey 11 Feb.1870 son of Catherine Sharpe (father not given).

Catherine Sharpe als Cannan als Clague was the daughter of Joseph Clague, Shoemaker (info. from marriage).
Possibly bapt 15 March 1829 Arbory, daur of Joseph CLAGUE & Catharine RADDCLIFFE.
Marr. Daniel CANNAN 1 Sept.1849 Braddan.

The 1861 Douglas census has Daniel Cannan aged 40 ag lab b.Ballaugh, with Catherine wife aged 30 b.Rushen, and son Daniel J aged 7 scholar b. Onchan. [Daniel Joseph Cannan bapt 25 Jan.1857 Onchan]

If the correct Cath (Len please correct me if wrong), and as Cath remarried in 1865, Daniel Cannan must have died between 1861 and 1865 - possibly Daniel CANNAN aged 42, buried Braddan, 29 May 1864 (from Brian Lawson's website).

1881 census, 21 Church St., Ramsey, has:
Catherine SHARP Head W Female 53 Castletown, Weaver's Widow
Daniel CANNAN Son U Male 24 Douglas, Baker
William (ditto) Son U Male 11 Ramsey, Scholar
Sarah CORKILL Lodger U Female 24 Ramsey, Domestic Serv. Cook.
- So that "ditto" could have been intended to be Sharp rather than Cannan.

In 1871 they are with other families at 14 College st., Ramsey: Catherine Sharp Wid, aged 34 Lodging Housekeeper, with son Daniel Cannon aged 14 school boy, Catherine Sharp daur aged 5, William Sharp son aged 1, and Catherine Canan K?eeper unm aged 60. Only IoM as places of birth.
Catherine Ann Sharp bapt Ramsey 14 Jan. 1866, daur of James Sharp & Catherine.

Catherine SHARPE aged 57 yrs., Ramsey, buried Maughold 29 Oct 1886.

Sue