Thanks My Luck and Dathai. Yes , that's him OK - Richard Howard, ex Colour Sergeant, 6
or more children, died in 1906. I am, however, trying to find out what he did during the years he was on Cape Clear. One problem is that you can put almost any old stuff on birth and marriage certificates - no check is made. He called himself a shopkeeper at his son's birth. Shopkeeper? On Cape Clear? Not long after the famine? Oh yes. Later, he called himself a gardener, then a labourer. All very confusing. When he went to Douglas he was near no3 son's family, all of whom worked on the Castletreasure wool mills, hence, probably, Sarah's job.
Hastings Moore is quite interesting. He seemed to be fairly well-to-do (by Ballydehob standards in 1860) but I've no clue what he was up to. His children all seemed to do quite well, some of them going off to Canada in the early 1900's
