If only she'd mastered the internet, because she would doubtless enjoy the new feature on family history site Ancestry, which allows users to search a database of 67,000 18th- and 19th-century convicts.
The Dorset Prison Admission and Discharge Register 1782-1901 and the Dorset Calendar of Prisoners 1854-1904 are pretty colourful chronicles of wrongdoing, running from grave â€" Jack Seale, a labourer, sentenced to hang for murder â€" to the peculiar â€" Charles Wood sentenced to a month in the clink in 1872 for "refusing to quit the beer-house".
There is also a certain Samuel Muston who in 1839 was convicted of stealing "fowl" and sentenced to "transportation for 7 years". Gran's verdict? "Must have been some other Mustons."
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