There are 20 or so well known IOM names, mostly seamen, who during 1830 - 1847, were jailed, mostly for abandoning ship, etc.
http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/genealogie/inst_recherche_ligne/instr_prisons/prison/prisonnniers.jsp

Click on "search form." On form, you can write in Isle of Man without a surname.