Kinnist/Kinnest name

[silvery]

This name is very close to Kinnish as per the other thread.  My grandmother was a Kinnest.  All those (not that many) with the name now, that I can find, originate from the one couple, including the ones in Australia.

John Kinnest/Kennest/Kinnist claims he was born 1825 in Blackburn in 2 of the 3 census I have him on, and I find a Margaret Kinnist dying there in 1850, but got absolutely no help from the cert, and can't find her elsewhere.  His wife Eliza was from Dublin.

I did a global search on Ancestry last year, and the Kinnist name crops up for the Isle of Man in 1841/61/81 and 1901 census.  Is it possible the family may have originated from there?  Does anyone in the Isle of Man still have the name Kinnist, or has it faded out? 

[Frances_mnb]

the name is not in my reading of the 1841 Manx census - suspect misreading of Kinnish - nor do I have any ref to it in my online manx directories etc

[silvery]

Thanks Frances.

 It's worth a try - it was a bit of a thought I had that the name may have got mangled along the way.    Oh well....