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From: "Geoff Brightman" <>
Subject: [[Hawks]] Re: [[Hawks]] CREWE
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:07:00 +0100

> 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

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