[Glenn Wright]

This is quite challenging for those of us not conversant with Manx Gaelic.
Google help me to learn that “tra dy liooar” means “time enough.”
Dhoor stumped me. It sounds as though it comes from one of the languages of India. It means “far away” in Tamil, “smoke” in Bengali, “cattle” in Gujarati, and “drum” in Urdu. It can also mean a unit of area, one-twentieth of a katha. I’m leaning toward the Tamil, but maybe it’s just a place name.

It appears that the speaker’s mother served as a teacher somewhere in southern India as a young woman before the speaker’s birth, when India was part of the British Empire. Like Anna Leonowens, she had adventures that she partially related to the speaker, but now that she is gone, the speaker realizes that he will never know the details of his mother’s life. Did I get most of it right?

I had fun with this, David. I made me think about some of my own garbled family history. I think when we are older, all of us wish we had paid attention when our parents tried to hand down the family lore.