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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [BKM] Posse Comitatus
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:29:12 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050618114410.02845b60@mail.wn.com.au>


In message <>, Cathy
Pinner <> writes
>I'm also interested in this resource that I hadn't come across before.
>
>Looking for any mention of CROOK in the Posse Comitatus, particularly in
>the Hambledon area.

There are 36 entries altogether. The only one in Hambleden is an over 60
(farmer) Richard Crook, who has 4 horses, a waggon and 2 carts.
Farmers' sons had often already joined the Yeomanry, so were not listed
in the Posse.
There is also a faemer, John Crook, in Gt Marlow, which is close by

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Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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