The Independent 's [LONDON not the Manx paper]
obituary said Sir Frank felt himself to be an eternal outsider but he rather enjoyed that condition. His father
was a warehouseman for the IOMSP Co & his mother a
former waitress. The article states she had been abandoned
by her parents as an infant when they emigrated to America.
However this will have been not entirely unusual--in my
family a child was left with Gran but she was reclaimed when
their house was built in Canada----a year later.Mrs Kermode
it seems remained here .