[From Manx Families, A.W.Moore, MS 1889]

The Families of Wilks, Corlett (Collett) and Cubbon

The Revd James Wilks,¹ Vicar General, born 1719, died 1777, married Elizabeth Christian (died 1799) and had issue James, who was High Bailiff of Ramsey; Mark,² afterward Colonel and Governor of St Helena, who married Dorothy Taubman (see Taubman’s); Thomas; Ann who married John Corlett a mariner, a brother of Thomas Corlett, an ironmonger in Douglas, and had issue James, a sea captain, who married Miss Brandt, a Russian lady, and had issue Sir Mark W. Collett, Bart., born 1816, died 1905, a Governor of the Bank of England, and James Christian Corlette. J.C. Corlette had issue James, who has issue Herbert Christian now living at Onslow Gardens, SW; Margaret who married Vicar General Cubbon and had issue Mark, afterwards Sir Mark, and Commissioner of the Mysore.

{{Coat of Arms adopted by James Corlette was drawn here:

Arms: combined Corlett arms [silver crosses on red [[gules]] and blue [[azure]] & Christian arms [black[[sable]] field with gold [[or]] chevron and arrows; Crest: Wolf head; Motto: E’Vethik}}

1 See Manx Worthies, pp 35-40[? pp26/7]

2 See Manx Worthies, pp 3-6 [?pp155/6]

FPC - the following tree is based on entries in Parish registers

                                 George Wilks = Ann Christian
                                  of Dublin   |   of Peel
                                  c.1660-1743 |
                                 +------------+------------+
                                 |            |            |
                               John         Ann           Mary
                           c.1690-1768       c.1700        c.1705
                                 |
                                 = Margaret [? Moore] 
                                 |   -1769
                                 +--+---------------------+-----------------+
                                    |                     |                 |
                                  John                  James            Isabel
                                 1717-1724            1719-1777          1723-
                                                      (1) | (2)
                                                    ?1746 | 1776
                                       Margaret Woods  = -+- = Elizabeth Christian -1799
                                        1724-1755      |     |   (dau Wm Christian, Ballamoar)
     +--------+--------+-----------+-------+-----------+     +----+-----------+----------+-----------+----------+---------+
     |        |        |           |       |           |          |           |          |           |          |         |
  Thomas   Deborah   Margaret   Deborah  Elizabeth   James      James        Ann        Mark      William    Thomas     Jane
1747-1756 1750-1751  1749-xxxx 1752-1812 1753-1780 1755-1755 1757-1840    1758-1839  1759-1831   1761-1764    1763-      1765-
                        |          |         |                   |      d. St Louis      |
             +----------+        1776       1776                 |        Missouri       |
             |    Richard Gelling  =         = Thomas Corlett    |            |          +-------------+
           1769                    |         v                   |            |                        |
             = Thomas Cubbon       v   +-------------------------+            |                    (1) | (2)
             | 1739-1830              1794                                  1782                  1793 | 1813
             v                         =  Catherine Moore       John Corlett  =     Harriet Maclean = -+- = Dorothy Taubman
                                       |            nee Cosnahan              |                     |          -1837                      
     +--------------+-------------+----+                                      v          +----------+   
     |              |             |                                                      |
 Catherine     Eliza Elinor   Claudius                                                  Laura
  1795-1875     1799-1878    1800-1818                                                1797-1888
                    |
                   1844
                    = George Hibbert Newton
                             1790-1865