Hello, and I'm looking for info on my alleged great-great-grandfather. The family legend is that he was born on the IOM in the late 18th or early 19th century and was connected to "Belle Kenny", which I am assuming could be Ballakinnag. His name was Richard Tear or Teare. He may have been the son of an earl or baron. The legend states that he may have had a brother who was in the House of Lords in the early 19th century. Richard married a servant girl and was sent abroad by his father. He lived in New Brunswick. One of his children was my great-grandmother, Mary Jane Tear, who married my great-grandfather, Jeremiah Murphy. She was born 21 May 1842, in St. John, New Brunswick. Both eventually lived in California, and are buried in the town cemetery of Chico, California, a three-hour drive from where I live in southern Oregon, USA.