Hello Alison, I am not related to your family, just trying to help you find your ancestor.

Maybe the John Corkill b1773 that was in Liverpool, and went back to the Isle of Man is the John Corkill you are looking for.

I omitted a sentence from the online information I found, not wanting to upset anyone until it was proven, here is the sentence I didnt add.

He may have done a runner leaving a family in Manx or Liverpool!

I cannot find John Corkill and Ann and their children in the 1841 Census, only a John Corkill in Liverpool.

Averil