Hi Russell

You wrote:

"There is also a matter concerning Charles Preston who was a trustee of the Ballasalla Bridge Road Primitive Methodist Chapel in1851.
Can anybody please throw some light on these individuals and their families.
I am still looking for a Charles Frederick Preston father of John Henry Preston."

Could this be your John Preston, son of Charles? You don't give a likely birth date for John.

JOHN PRESTON Pedigree
Male

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Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 20 JUL 1834 Malew, Isle Of Man, England

Death:
Burial:

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Parents:
Father: CHS PRESTON Family
Mother: MARY CORLETT

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Messages:
Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.

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In 1851 this family are living in Ballasalla. Ancestry Malew, district 4, page 4
Charles Preston Head, aged 60, labourer, b Malew
Mary wife, age 59, b Malew
John son, age 17, shewmaker (sic), b Malew

Jean C