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    1. [[Hawks]] Re: [[Hawks]] Re: [[Hawks]] CREWE
    2. marilyn
    3. Sounds good. Thanks Regards In message <001501bfa0c4$ea3c0760$1cbe883e@GEOFF>, Geoff Brightman <LWYouthForum@lwwp.freeserve.co.uk> writes > > >> Hi, >> >> Not my own line, but looking at it for my neice. >> >> the Crewe family are fairly easy to research in Hawkesbury and Hillesley >> but tradition has it that one Will Crewe was the last highwayman hung >> in England. >> >> Any takers? >> >>-- >> marilyn > > >Don't know anything of Will above Marilyn but how's this :- >CREW Robert 30 Aug 1851 23 Hawkesbury >Labourer Q/Gc6/2 being the date said Robert was incarcerated at >Gloucester Gaol aged 23 and the reference number being a big book at >Gloucester Record Office which will give the details of the crime and >sentence and if you are lucky a physical description. > >Geoffro > >PS Make Pond Dipping an Olympic Sport > > >============================== >The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > -- marilyn

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