Hi Liz,

If you haven't already done so you need to look at the deaths index at the Registry between 1891 and 1901.

I have often come across same-name children in 1700s families. This is from Maughold burials:
Wm KERRUISH buried Dec 7 1728.
Wm KERRUISH Bro to ye above Wm buried Dec 14 1728.

Sue