Pat Chrisfield
Pat’s poverty-stricken great-uncle Arthur found himself under lock and key many times in his lifetime for committing opportunist crimes
When I took my first tentative steps in genealogy I harboured no desire to find that I was a descendant of royalty or gentry. Instead I hoped for heroes, inventors, peace-makers and generally interesting individuals. I had no objection to the occasional criminal in my ancestry but hoped that these would not include murderers or sex offenders.