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My research has led me to this man.  He appears to have been a Doctor of Physick.  There's some circumstantial evidence to suggest that his wife was called Susanna, but I'm not entirely sure.  Whoever it was, Ezra and his wife had several children baptized at Halton in the 1650s and 1660s, and I descend from Agnes Woolston bap 1661.  Agnes later married and moved to Bolton le Sands, but on her death, her body was brought back to Halton to be buried there. 
Apart from odd references in deeds (found on the internet) I really can find nothing about him - nothing about his birth / education (Oxbridge?) / marriage or death.  If his wife was Susannah she was a widow by 1696 (Lease at the John Rylands Library), and there's a Susanna Woolston who also died at Bolton le Sands and was also buried at Halton in the early 18th century. 
Can anyone add any more details, please?
Ian

Does anyone know what happened to Robert Barton?  He was the son of my ancestor Ellen/Eleanor Davis of Bolton le Sands and her husband William Barton (married at Burton 28 May 1833).
Robert is with his parents at Woodhouse, Heversham on the 1841 census, and then vanishes.  William Barton died in 1854, and after that Ellen lived with her first child John West Davis.  I know about that side of the family, but Robert Barton remains a puzzle.
Note :  I am fairly certain that he was not the Robert Barton who married Jane Dixon at Bolton le Sands in 1858 (father's name in marriage register is not William Barton).
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks
Ian

I'm researching Birkby Wood of Bishop Auckland.  He was my gt grandfather's brother and was born in Carnforth Lancashire on 25 October 1881(date from the family Bible).  You would think with such an unusual name (it's a family tradition going back to the 18th cent) he would be easy to follow....I have found him on the 1911 census at Bishop Auckland.  He married  Jane Dobinson in 1908, and they had four children - Zena 1911 (she appears twice on the census, once with her parents and once with her grandparents!), Mary 1912, Henry 1916, Norman 1923.  I also found a soldier's file on Birkby  (he was in the Durham Light Infantry) , which was very informative telling me he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (I'm writing that detail from memory).  But after that I can find nothing more.  Nobody ever spoke about him in the family, and yet I met several people who would have known him.  Is anyone else researching him, or does anyone know anything more?  Any further information would be appreciated.  thank you.
frian

I have been following this man who married my relative Ann Jane Pearson in Swansea in 1877.  There are several problems with researching him.  The first is that there are two people called William Westacott, both born in the Chittlehampton area in c.1853 (both there on the 1871 census), and both moved to Swansea in the 1870s.  My William was a tailor whom I believe to be the son of George Westacott tailor of Chittelhampton (details on marriage certificate and identification from census and newspapers).  The other is a labourer.  This is important since William Westacott the tailor embarked on a life of crime (Barnstaple Quarter Sessions 1875, Swansea Quarter Sessions 1877 (twice) Swansea Assizes 1878 (this followed by a spell in prison).  Then the whole family moved to Wednesbury in the West Midlands (assumed the name of West - there on the 1881 census). And finally another appearance in court in 1882.  Then silence.  What happened to him then?  Has anyone else attempted to unravel this man and his criminal record?  The Victorian newspapers are very helpful but do sensationalise him and describe him as a most desperate character wanted in several counties for unsolved burglaries.  There's at least one tree on an...try which confuses the two Williams (I'm not surprised).  I'd happily share what I've found so far with other researchers.
frian