suggest you check out the phone book for IOM (two references under the Heading Forrester on IOMFHS or Manx Genealogy Page), and get addresses and write. (Two Biglands, one Bigland) Scandinavian origin is at the back of my mind, but don't know why, so may not be correct. Also connection with the Odin's Raven, viking reconstruction trip from Norway to IOM in 1979 (Manx Millenium Year). Susanne.