Dear John, I will look at that tomorrow:) Best Wishes, Penny On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:32 PM, John Hanson via <[email protected]> wrote: > I was recently contacted by Henry ARTHUR's great, great granddaughter in > the > hope that I might be able to assist her. > > Part of the email said ", my great grandmothers name is Leah Arthur (chart > 3 > on your website) I have spent many months looking for some information on > her daughter Martha Emma Arthur born 1900. I have traced her up until early > 1920's where she had a daughter ( Dorothy Arthur) and went to prison, I > have > found her daughters family but the trail stops there." > > Now I don't normally chase after the Halstead's women that marry out of the > name but this one I found interesting. It also fits into one of the aims of > the Halsted Trust which is to educate people on family history research. > > I have written about Henry Arthur in the latest blog post at > http://halsteadons.blogspot.co.uk/ > > Henry was one of those that never left a will but the newspaper report made > up for it in many ways. It shows that you should never ignore newspapers > even if you don't think that there will be anything. It turns out in this > case that Henry was the oldest person in Worsthorne at the time and his > funeral was reported in full complete with the list of mourners. > > The interesting thing with this is that there is no mention in the list of > mourners of Martha or Dorothy - so what had happened to them? I can find no > mention of > > It mentions a connection to the founder of the Halsted Sunday (another blog > post there) and that could possibly have been via his wife Susan ROBERTS - > but I an still investigating the ARTHUR name just in case. But there was > also a mention in the report on the funeral of " the Rochester Charity, > payable in Worsthorne and Burnley" can anyone enlighten me on what it was. > > Regards > John Hanson > Researcher, The Halsted Trust > Website - www.halstedresearch.org.uk > > > > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >