Hi Kevin, Just did a little Google Search http://www.ancestry.co.uk/facts/Derbyshire-occupations.ashx http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=452815&disp=The+Leicestershire+and+South+Derbyshire+%20%20&columns=*,180,0 Cheers,Stella At 03:25 PM 15/01/2010, Kevin Poile wrote: >Hi listers, > >Whilst working on expanding my wife's Bedfordshire lines and tracing >them through the 1851 to 1901 censuse - I noticed that several >families seem to have moved to Derbyshire broadly between 1871 and >1891. > >I have been puzzling this one for a while and today came across yet >another family that seems to have done the same. > >So my question is was there a concerted effort to move families to >Derbyshire or is this something the families did on their own? It >seems a long way to travel (83 miles in a straight line - according to >"Parish Locater") on the off change that there will be work. > >I have heard of a scheme where families moved north, travelling by >canal I believe, to work in the mills but none of the people involved >seem to have jobs in mills a few go and work in the Mines. > >Looking forward to the replies. > >Kevin > >Top 4 Bedfordshire interests are FISHER, BONNER, BURROWS and >SUMMERFIELD - then all the families that interconnect to these. > > > >The List Guidelines > >http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > >The Bedfordshire Surnames List > >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message