Brian, having checked back the book I was thinking of was one I bought nearly 40 years ago at an Eccles auction house and is indeed the Harland one. An excellent book it is too. I presume the FSA after his name is The Society of Antiquarians? It's not the one I was thinking of though. I had one at one time that declard itself to be a private printing. Can't put my fingers on it at the moment.

Harland book is 1865?, Mary Barton was 1848 but presumably Mrs G knew of it some time before that. Is there an earlier published record of it.

The Harland one amazed me at the time with the huge amount of material in it and it's "doings". London publisher, Edinburgh printer and Lancashire verse. The world was supposed to be much smaller then. it wasn't of course but still an impressive coverage of the British isles in it's production.