The Callow Family on the Isle of Man

[EmsieJayne]

I was born on January 1974 at the Jane Crookhall Hospital in Douglas. My mother is Jane Callow, Can anyone help me find my family?

[dawnsh]

Hi EmsieJayne

Welcome to Rootschat 

According to your other post you seem to have done quite a bit of research

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=689017.0

What specifically are you trying to find out?

Dawn

[EmsieJayne]

Hi Dawn,

I am adopted, but in touch with my Birth mother. I also enjoy a good relationship with my birth Sister who lives on the Island. However I don't know who my father is. I had my DNA done which produced a 100% match with a first cousin who's surname is Reynolds. He knows that his father was evacuated in WW2 to the Isle of Man as a child and he seems to think that it was some relative of his Fathers that he stayed with. Unfortunately his father has died and he is not able to ask him. My cousins Father was called Thomas Reynolds (the evacuee) and his mother was was called Katherine Simpson. Thomas Reynolds parents were called James and Mary Reynolds and my cousin thinks that they came from Cork around 1900, and that at some point they lived in Peel Square in Liverpool.

If you can help in anyway I would much appreciate it.

Many thanks

Emma

[dawnsh]

Hi Emma

Rootschat is a forum researching our long dead ancestors not for finding or re-connecting with missing family and friends.

Please take a moment to read our guidelines for posting

http://www.rootschat.com/help/posting_guide.php

There are some chatters here who may be able to give you some hints and tips but anything 'personal' will have to be sent off-forum on the personal message system.

http://www.rootschat.com/help/pms.php

Dawn

[KGarrad]

Do you have your original Birth Certificate? He may be mentioned on there.

The alternative would be Parish Records, but you would need to know in which parish?
Also Parish Records this late are likely to be still at the relevant church.
Or available art the Manx Museum Library, but they would have to retrieve from the archives.

But I have to say that, in researching a Manx friend's Family History, where all of his father and siblings were illegitimate, I can find no mention of a father's name on either certificates or PR entries.

[Blue70]

Further back ie 19th century it may be possible with records of mothers' pursuing maintenance money on the Isle of Man to find the identity of fathers but this is a recent event with living people involved most volunteers feel uncomfortable with research into living people for privacy reasons.


Blue