RootsChat.Com

I've also been browsing through the Lancashire Parish Registers section of FindMyPast and found the burial registers for Lancaster Borough Cemetery.  Looks interesting and I will explore that one further.
FindMyPast also corrects some of Ancestry's errors - e.g. Ancestry have the marriage registers of Christ Church, Glasson Dock under Christ Church, Lancaster (but no marriages for the latter!)  FindMyPast differentiates the two - and we finally get the marriage registers of both parishes.  Also more registers for parishes in the Lune Valley.  It's worth having a look if you, like me, have many Lancashire connections.
frian

Just in case anyone is interested - since posting this, I have discovered that William Westacott became an habitual criminal.  It's a rather sad life of offending, trial, conviction and prison sentence repeated over and over again.  He had spells in various prisons (including Dartmoor) and the most recent record I have of him is in 1917 (List of Habitual Criminals) where he was at HM Prison, Camp Hill, Isle of Wight.  What proved hard to locate him was the fact that he used several aliases - John Johnson, John Williams, William Saunders and finally William Johnson.  I was greatly helped by discovering him on a Calendar of Prisoners (Quarter Sessions in West Bromwich in 1902) which gave a detailed list of his twelve previous convictions back to 1877, and the alias he used each time.  But still not found his death.  He was due to be released in 1918.
Ian

I'm a retired archivist and now spend one day a week sorting out Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions Case Papers in our local Record Office - and incidentally often having a fascinating time.
I've compared a few cases with the reports in the local press (in this case available on FindMyPast) and together they can make an historical document very useful for the family historian.
frian

Re Mary E Pearson who married Harry Garth 1928 Kendal district.
This is actually Mary Ellen Pearson born 27 September 1902 at Milnthorpe, (died 2003 Kendal district). She was the oldest child of Richard Lancaster Pearson and his wife Margaret (nee Arkwright) of Milnthorpe - possibly of interest to someone.
frian

It might be worth checking to see if either (or both) of the Ann Cornthwaites left a will/ letter of administration.  These would probably be at Preston in the Lancashire Archives (Richmond wills, Kendal Deanery).  There used to be a list on the internet of such wills compiled by the University of Central Lancashire, but it seems to have vanished......
frian