Look at this site

Goonerhater

If ur intrested in history or social history The Old Bailey was a web site now open. You can look at trials from 1600s to 1913. Just put my surname in and one trial came up 8 death sentances, 4 branded and 36 transported two with my surname. date 1700s.

AFKABartram

http://www.charltonlife.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=16250&page=1#Item_0

DA9

That is quite scary, my dads family come from Islington/Highbury originally, just put the family name in there and it comes up with some thief stealing cows and horses from my family name in the Islington/Highbury area in 1742...wow, I wonder.

WSS

[cite]Posted By: DA_9[/cite]some thief stealing cows and horses

Wow!

Cows and horses that steal thieves! ;-)

BlackForestReds

[quote][cite]Posted By: DA_9[/cite]That is quite scary, my dads family come from Islington/Highbury originally, just put the family name in there and it comes up with some thief stealing cows and horses from my family name in the Islington/Highbury area in 1742...wow, I wonder.[/quote]


There were open fields around Islington in those days.