This site won't allow me to post a more complete comment on an account by Philip Tear's nephew that has been most helpful. It was because I had allegedly used "naughty language," but I think it may be because I used a link in the text. So I'll try to work around that problem with the following.

If you begin with the home page of this site, then click on manxnotebook, then famhist and then genealogy, look for ttaccnt dot htm, or the Thomas Tear account of family history 1888.

James