Hi Joel

I can’t help with the specific query about emigration, but having looked at the various trees on Ancestry for James Christian Clark b 1822, I can’t see one which has the details of James’s family back on the IOM. I hope the following will be helpful:

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Baptism copied from IGI:

Name: James Christian Clark
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 24 Oct 1822
Event Place: Lezayre, Isle of Man
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Hugh Clark
Mother's Name: Anne Christian
Image Number: 50

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1841
Street behind Court House, Ramsey

Ancestry’s transcription (Ervan should be Ewan):

Name Age
Ervan Clark 50
Ann Clark 45
Christian Clark 15
Ann Clark 13
Margaret Clark 11
Eliza Clark 9
William Clark 7
Ann Kinrade 15
William Kinrade 12

notes:
EC 50 tanner

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1851
Ancestry’s transcription:
Name Age
Ewan Clarke 59
Ann Clarke 55
Christian Caine 24
Ann Jane Clarke 22
Margaret E Clarke 26
William Clarke 16
John Casemente 12
Rosatio Faragher 3

notes:
EC corn dealer b Lezayre
AC b Andreas
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1861

Ancestry’s transcription:
Name Age
Ewan Clarke 67
Ann Clarke 64
Ann Jane Clarke 29
Eliza Clarke 26

notes:
EC potato merchant b Lezayre
AC b Andreas

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burial:

CLARKE, Anne 66 Lezayre 19 Apr 1862 CHRISTIAN

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1871

Ancestry’s transcription:
Name Age
Ervan Clarke 84
Ann Jane Clarke 37
Eliza Rackham 52

notes:
Ewan Clarke wid retired farmer

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burial (age wrong---should be 87 perhaps ?)

CLARKE, Ewan 57 Lezayre 18 Feb 1879

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possible baptism:
Name: Ewan Clark
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 21 Mar 1791
Event Place: Lezayre, Isle of Man
Gender: Male
Father's Name: James Clark
Mother's Name: Jane Corlett
Image Number: 109
Digital Folder Number: 004493641 , Image Number: 00109
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Jean C