When researching the QUarrie family, as a J S Quarrie was a witness to the marriage of Eliza Corlett/Cowle to William Christian of Ballakey in 1827, I came across the following passage in Part 1 of a 2 part article on the Quarrie Family,
"The 'Manx Advertiser' of 7 August, 1813, reported that 'a field of barley has been cut this week on the estate of Ballavoddan, belonging to the Duke of Atholl, and farmed by Mr. John Scott'.
Scott was also involved in the running of Ballavar Farm in the Parish of Bride where a business arrangement with a family named Brown proved unsuccessful, though the relationship with that family appears not to have been thereby severed. The 'Manx Advertiser' of 26 February, 1814, included an item whereby 'Creditors of John Brown, Ballaveer, are asked to send in their A/cs. to John Scott of Ballavoddan, and his brother James Brown of the Geary'."

We know that OUR James Brown was Scots, and born c1789 and came to the Island sometime before 1820, fell ill and returned to Scotland no doubt to consult an Edinburgh doctor, was found to have a weak heart, and decided he so loved the IOM that he wanted to spend his last days not amongst his ain folk in Scotland but in the IOM. By 1822 he was farming the Kimmeragh, and in 1824 married Cath Cowell, and raised seven sons !

That is the definite part of the story; oddments that my mother remembered included a brother, possibly John and maybe an association with managing one of the Duke of Atholl's farms in the north of the Island.

In the QUarrie article we have a reference to a James Brown of the Garey who was in association with a brother John. Our James was born c1789, so would be 34 yrs old at this time. It all looks promising, but does anyone have any further suggestions on these wwo brothers, James and John Brown

Robert