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Thank you Ruskie for checking Gretna records.
Thanks again Gan Yam. You always try to help me and it is appreciated. I will have a look at those. I just got a bit distracted looking at John Lowther Turnbull as he was a Police Inspector who no doubt influenced his nephew John James to join the force. John James in turn inspired my father to join before both my brother and I both followed suit and signed up for 30 years each. So John Lowther Turnbull has a lot to answer for! There are some reports of John Lowther's police exploits in the British Newspaper Archive. After he retired from the police service he ran the Wheatsheaf Hotel at Wetheral. I have also found that John James' police records survive so I have applied for those too. I doubt they will help me find William and Sarah's marriage but this little foray is turning out more fruitful than I hoped and I am so grateful for the help I have received here. Sadly with events in London and Kent this week, tragically, this is not a good week for the British Police. I guess the Turnbull chaps would turn in their graves if they knew.
Middleham, Ronson, Skinner, Rowe, Dennison, Weightman, Dalton, Rowe, Brown, Stead, Thompson, Nicholls, Porter, Brough, Pattinson, Wannop, Ruddick, Waugh mainly in Cumberland, Yorkshire, Scotland.