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