He was already in the IoM for the 1841 census, in Malew, as Hugh McCarty aged 30, "gardner", with Rose 25, Henry 7, Hugh 3 all b.Ireland, Mary 2, Denis 2 months both b. IoM. - Which gives you a pretty good idea when they arrived. [Relationships and exact adult ages not given in 1841.]
In 1851 he is in Onchan as a widower aged 40, gardener, at Labourers? Cottage, Summer? Hill, with his children Henry 17 apprentice (gardener), Catherine 15, Hugh 13 (all b. Ireland), Mary 12 b.Castletown IoM, Denis 10 b. German IoM, Rose 8 b. German IoM, and his mother Catherine, widow, 63, house keeper b. Ireland.
In 1861, Public House in Onchan Village, he is aged 50 innkeeper, with Mary wife 45, Catherine mother wid 76, and Daniel Mc Carthy nephew 14, all b. Ireland.
From Ancestry.co.uk.
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