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Wow, thanks Rosie.  I misread what you wrote at first hence ramblings below. (edited with this)   looks very hopeful.
 
I have managed to go further back and Lilias MacNiven Smith was born in Muckairn, think 1859, parents Peter (occupation Sawyer) and Margaret nee MacCorquodale.  she moved over to Isle of Man in 1896 and is buried there, think 1936. 
Lilias married Thomas Smith and from what I can gather he left the family c1900.  I haven't been able to trace what became of him unfortunately.  Was he living in MacDonald Street with them?
I wonder now if he returned to Glasgow and his sons moved back over to him.  My Gt Grandmother Margaret Ann McKenzie Smith, their daughter, married a John Paton in I think 1908 (not got my tree handy) in Govan.  He died in a drowning accident think 1912 and she went back to the IOM.

I am trying to trace what became of two of my Gt Grandmothers brothers.  James Mack or Meck Smith born 29/2/1888 and John born 1885.  They were born in Glasgow but moved to the Isle of Man c1896.  I know my Gt Grandmother moved back and lived in Govan sometime between 1904 and 1914, before going back to IOM.
Her brothers may have also returned to Scotland? 
They may have joined the Navy but I know nothing of them after the 1901 Census in Ramsey IOM where they lived with their Mother Lilias Smith b1858 in Muckairn.
Their Father was Thomas Smith, born 1860 Old Monklands, Engine Fitter.  I believe they lived in Toll Cross just before going to IOM in 1896 and my Gt Grandmother married in Govan.
Did they die in WW1?
Can anyone help please?

Thank you all.  Makes very interesting reading.  He was found guilty of forging his Mother’s Will in his favour, rather than his sister.  His Father was still alive and I think he was the person to report his son.  Interesting his daughters followed him over.
Also found article that someone met similar death a few years before!

July 22 1871

MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY

A magisterial inquiry into the cause of the death of GEORGE GRAHAM, found dead at a waterhole at Three-mile Creek, on the 19th instant, was held by the police magistrate, at the house of WILLIAM CUBBON, of Jebropilly, on Thursday last. EDWIN COLLETT deposed to having discovered the body of deceased, whom he knew by sight and by name, lying in a waterhole in Mr. Cubbon’s paddock, at Three-mile Creek; deceased was on his belly with his face in the water; there was only four or five inches of water where his face lay......witness got the assistance of GEORGE WHITNEY. William Cubbon deposed to having seen the body of the deceased.....he knew the deceased who had been in the habit of going to his house occasionally. ROBERT ALLEN deposed as to the identification of the body, who was a widower aged 33 years, and was born in County Tyrone, Ireland; deceased was Presbyterian and had a daughter living with her grandmother in Brisbane......... (Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser)

An ancestors brother, William Cubbon, was found guilty of forgery in the Isle of Man in 1847  and was transported on the HASHEMY in 1848 to Tasmania with a 10 year sentence.  Watching a programme yesterday it was mentioned that the locals wouldn’t let this ship disembark so the inmates were sent to South Australia with a ‘Ticket of Leave’
Is there anyway of finding out what happened to William Cubbon? Did he survive journey? Is there a copy of these tickets of leave?  Census for South Australia?
He left behind a wife and three daughters and can’t find that he returned.
Thanks

Thanks, that's them. Wonder if John Burns is on 1861 census please?