Hi Bob,

You might need to get several birth printouts (photocopies) before you get lucky. I got ones for seven children during the 1870s and 1880s for one family where their mother was from the IoM, and four of them gave the correct parish for her. The others just had IoM. She was the person who had registered most of their births.

She was given a free passage in 1874, at a time when these were being offered to labourers and domestic servants. The shipping list included people from all over the UK as well as the IoM.

Sue