After seeing on the this roots web a message from Sandee I would like to ask her has se any Early records of Northill and Southill I am researching the ROOK family and have records back to Alexander Rook(e) died 1743 married to Millicent Gadsby Any help Please Ivan and Irene Rook. Living in Mondron Spain

Please reply to the list on this one as I too am interested in Alexander ROOK b.1670 married to Millicent GADSBY b.15 Oct 1670. Millicent was the daughter of Richard GADSBY c.1647 and Millicent CROFT c.1647 and married 16 Sep 1667 at Campton. Alexander could have been born at Clifton where his children were born, or Campton where he married, as well as Southill or Northill. Cheers Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Artist" <irenerook@avired.com> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:35 AM Subject: [BDF] Northill/Southill > After seeing on the this roots web a message from Sandee I would like to > ask her has se any Early records of Northill and Southill > I am researching the ROOK family and have records back to Alexander > Rook(e) died 1743 married to Millicent Gadsby > Any help Please > Ivan and Irene Rook. Living in Mondron Spain > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > For any updates or info about the status of this list go to > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com > >

Ivan & Irene, Try the Hugh Wallis site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#PageTitle It will tell you availability and dates of earliest records for Northill & Southill. Click on each batch number and search for just the ROOK surname. But it looks like you've got the earliest Rook records from those parishes. If you go to Advanced Search at www.familysearch.org and select International genealogical Index (IGI), you can just search for the ROOK surname by putting an asterisk * for given name. This will give every single ROOK record. You can then refine your search using County and blocks of +/-20 years. The earliest ROOK records in Bedfordshire look to be about 1590 in Sutton. Peter

Good advice Peter. The NBI shows Rook burials at about this period in Sutton/Edworth; Sandy, and Langford, which is a bit closer to Clifton. Alexander was my 7th and 8th xg grandfather on either side of my family so I am doubly interested in him! His son Alexander stayed in Southill, but perhaps significantly in the light of Peter's comment about Rooks in Sutton, his daughter Elizabeth married John Madlock from Eltisley at Clifton and they produced children in Meppershall, but their son Alexander Medlock married in Sutton and had 17 children by two wives there. Sutton is worthy of further investigation. Thanks Peter David Peter Booth <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> a écrit : Ivan & Irene, Try the Hugh Wallis site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#PageTitle It will tell you availability and dates of earliest records for Northill & Southill. Click on each batch number and search for just the ROOK surname. But it looks like you've got the earliest Rook records from those parishes. If you go to Advanced Search at www.familysearch.org and select International genealogical Index (IGI), you can just search for the ROOK surname by putting an asterisk * for given name. This will give every single ROOK record. You can then refine your search using County and blocks of +/-20 years. The earliest ROOK records in Bedfordshire look to be about 1590 in Sutton. Peter ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== Bedfordshire Towns and Villages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf/placeindex.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? En finir avec le spam? Yahoo! Mail vous offre la meilleure protection possible contre les messages non sollicités http://mail.yahoo.fr Yahoo! Mail