Thank you, Gavin, for your reply. I posted a message on the bulletin board at Berwick-on-Tweed.com (in fact, I Emailed them on their new site and bullied them into setting up a genealogy website like Isle of Man's!) and my message was the first (and only) message last time I looked. My father, Alan Forsyth, was admitted in 1926. He died in 1964 and his father, Henry, died in 1959. The person who I persuaded to set up a bulletin board in Berwick sent me a "family tree" of Freemen dating back to James Forsyth (Yeoman, Unthank Square, County Durham) and his son William (Guard of the Mail Coach, Berwick) who was admitted on 14.4.1782. I know Alexander Wood was a naval engineer aboard the Malabar in 1881 census and the "family tree" tells me that Richard Charles Neild and David Hugh Stafford were both 2nd Lieutenants in R.A. in 1940 when they were admitted by proxy. Richard was killed in action in Egypt in November, 1941.
Thank you very much for your interest. I have only been once to Berwick, in 1961, when we went on holiday to Holy Island.
Janet.