I’m revisiting this 2016 thread because I may be able to add some interesting information which I’ve just realised is linked to Ames’s query.

I came across the name Louis Robert Clague as a person who signed as a witness to the 1892 Braddan marriage of Robert Walter Clague to Frances Adelaide Kewley and I wondered whether he was a friend of the bride and groom, or possibly a cousin of the bridegroom. I hoped that he would turn out to be a cousin because I’m always looking out for small clues which might lead to the discovery of the identity of the parents of Thomas Clague who married Eleanor Gelling in 1804 (the paternal grandparents of Robert Walter Clague b 1848). To complicate matters, RWC also had Clagues in his maternal line---a great grandfather John Clague b 1760.

I started by looking at the image of the 1886 Braddan marriage of Louis Robert Clague to Frances Florence Hurrell, in order to check that his signature matched the 1892 one.(and it did). He gave his address as Burnt Mill Hill and his father’s details as Thomas Clague, car proprietor. This rang a bell, so I found him in various censuses and then searched this board for old messages, which brought me here.

I also recalled having found 4 photos on an internet site (I forget which) back in 2011---of Thomas Clague b 1828, of Eleanor nee Cowley b 1832/3, of their headstone, and of their daughters Edith and Emily. I’ve looked for them online now but can’t find them. However, I’d had the foresight to make copies of them in 2011 “in case they might some day turn out to be related”.

I hope that Ames still visits this board and will see this message. I’ll attach the headstone photo here.
Jean C