Frances - this is a long response - You made me go back to the old handwritten notes by Great Aunt Mona . One page has the information that I gave you with Rev. William Kelly (son of John Kelly, High Bailiff of Castletown and Margaret Ann Christian) married to Henrietta, but it is followed by a question mark and below it notes “Alice” and “Katherine.”
A piece of the information you gave me in your most recent message, “…curate of Andreas in 1854 Curate of Sulby 1855” coincides with a notation in another handwritten document that is based on “Manx Pedigrees” page 17, by Edmund Goodwin of Peel (1842-1924) with additions by T.G. Moore, which has “Rev Wm, b 1830, Chaplain of Andreas and Sulby;” however, this is where the confusion comes in, a straight line is drawn from this, downward, branching out on either side with “Alice” on one side and “Katherine” on the other side. Under the name Alice there is this address: “17 Gerard Road, Weston-Super-Mare Somerset.”
In the 1861 Isle of Man census, William, 31, son of Margaret Ann Kelly, Landed Proprietress, is noted as “Clergyman Church of England without cure of soul, BA,” which, as you know, prompted my first question. Other members of the family are his sisters: Catherine and Margaret, and a grandson – William John, age 12. The question is: whose son is it? Catherine was never married; Margaret married Thomas Corlette of Lezayre. Address: Parliament Square, Castletown.
The 1871 Isle of Man census has William Kelly, head, age 41, with occupation as “(without cure of souls B.A.) Clergyman Church of England Landowner & Farmer of 63 acres, living with housekeeper and farm servant indoor at Corlea, Malew.
William’s brothers and sisters were: James Kelly, M.D., b 1818, John Kelly, b 1821, Advocate of Peel, George Emanuel Kelly, Mariner (drowned 1865, age 42 – my great, great grandfather), Catherine Price, 1820, Phillip William b 1828, Cornelius Smelt b. 1835, Martha, b 1833, Thomas Cornelius, b 1838, Charles b 1841, Ann E., b 1849 and two girls named Christian Faith who died in infancy.
Probably more information than you wanted, but, hopefully helpful.
Elaine