Tracking movements & information about my gt gt grandfather on paternal side of family. He disappeared off the census radar & I found it was because after his first wife [Rosannah LORAN] died in 1846 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he appeared in the Isle of Man census 1881 living at "Sea Peep Cottage" with a new wife Sarah Ann WOOD [from St Johns Wood London]. Which explained the disappearance from England records.
They must have lived in IOM a while because one of John's children, Jane CANNELL b 1873, later recalled to her children, memories of living there with her "step-mother". I duly looked up IOM, not knowing anything about the place, only to find it appears as if half the population were named CANNELL. John CANNELL was born in Liverpool to William CANNELL [born 1811] and his mother was Eliza GALLEDGE [1824] born in Ireland. I dont think it is a coincidence that John Cannell went to IOM with his children & new wife, but the forenames are quite common there so I would like some advice on trying to get more focus.
John may have been a librarian [part time] or teacher. I dont know if he or Sarah are buried there.
