Barbara, Others on the list will have better knowledge of history, but it's my understanding that John Bunyan and a lot of early pilgrims to America came from Bedfordshire. A little research should find plenty of clues. Another approach would be to search the list archives for Cooke posts. I found quite a few entries for Cooke families from Eaton Bray on submitted trees at Rootsweb. Find one of interest and email the submitter. There's probably even more submitted trees on Ancestry. Peter in Sydney

Thanks, Peter, I hadn't thought of Rootsweb for trees - will look there and I do appreciate your suggestions. Thanks so much. Barb On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Peter Booth <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au>wrote: > Barbara, > > Others on the list will have better knowledge of history, but it's my > understanding that John Bunyan and a lot of early pilgrims to America came > from Bedfordshire. A little research should find plenty of clues. > > Another approach would be to search the list archives for Cooke posts. I > found quite a few entries for Cooke families from Eaton Bray on submitted > trees at Rootsweb. Find one of interest and email the submitter. There's > probably even more submitted trees on Ancestry. > > Peter in Sydney > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >