Hi Marilyn

Thank you very much for getting in touch. I've been aware of you and Brian and the great work you did for the 1994 reunion. I've been meaning to contact you but I had to take a break from family history work. I take it Brian is the great great grandson of Robert who went from IOM to Australia. I am the great great grandson of Robert's brother Daniel, via Daniel George, George and David Craig my father.

I went off on a tangent, looking for proof that Thomas and Isabella were the parents of Daniel and Robert, and questioning whether there was the daughter Catherine, because a woman named Eleanor published a family tree on the Internet that included the parents, siblings and descendents of Daniel and Robert but she had different parents to Thomas and Isabella and had Catherine as a sibling. Eleanor is a descendent of Lydia Craig whose sisters Annie and Elizabeth married Faragher cousins, sons of Robert and Daniel.

When I did research on the IOM in 1980 I came up with Thomas and Isabella as the parents of Daniel, Robert, Thomas, William and Isabella but I wasn't sure I had it right. Last year I checked and the only Faragher family on the IOM at that time who had children Daniel and Robert was Thomas and Isabella's family. From then on I accepted the tree that had been in my family and the tree you made in 1994 were correct. I should have done that earlier! I agree, as you and a Manx woman have said, that Catherine was almost certainly not a sibling but a servant as the census says.

I would like to keep talking with you and would certainly like copies of the family tree and family profiles you made in 1994. However, I suspect that won't be of interest to the people on this message board so I suggest we correspond by e-mail within Australia. I am in Melbourne and in 1994 you were in Sydney. If you agree, my e-mail address is faradext@melbpc.org.au
If you would prefer to keep the discussion going on this board please say so as that's OK by me.

John Faragher