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From: "Grant A. Van Vranken" <>
Subject: Re: [CROLEY] Ambrose Crowley
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:47:37 -0600
References: <4349B65D.7050402@clatskanie.com> <007901c5cd81$dedf7970$0e71a00c@George>


This maybe a place to start looking!

On 8 October, 1689, Ambrose Crowley, who had leased the land to Friends
(also called Quakers) for a peppercorn rent, certified with a group of
fellow Quakers "that the houses and buildings following are set apart for
public worship viz newly erected edifice in Stourbridge containing three
bays within a certain yard walled in". This yard, now an attractive garden,
was originally the burying ground for the Meeting. Three hundred years later
to the day, the Revd Brian Crowley, a descendant of Ambrose, planted a tree
in the garden and was presented with 300 peppercorns for the (probably)
outstanding rent.

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I got this blurb from the following website:
http://www.stourbridge.com/htm/quakers.htm

Perhaps if we can track down this Brian Crowley, or one of his descendants,
we may be able to get him to do a DNA test. Is anybody on the list good at
finding present day people in England?

Grant A. Van Vranken
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crowley/index.html


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