I can vouch for the usefulness of Quarter Sessions- and Bucks in particular. I found the settlement dispute over my gt x 3 grandfather Robert Chowns, including the evidence book which gave his answers to questions. It told me he kept pigs, how much his rent was, his father-in-law's employer, that the ceiling fell in, all sorts of domestic details which brought him to life in his own words.
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Love from Nell
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Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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