Hallo All , Just wondered ... If anyone else is researching the Lipscomb family of Wycombe? Chair makers and wood turners descended from a long line of Joseph/Josiah Lipscombs and eventually John L Lipscomb (b1880 West Wycombe) who married Martha Stevens in 1819 and moved to Derby around 1841 where he continued the tradition of chairmaking, although most of his many children worked in the Derby silk mill. He died in Derby in 1874/5 I think. Quite why he moved to Derby is a total mystery. John's father (Joseph Lipscomb, b 1779 in Wooburn, Bucks) had died in 1839. At about the same time several of Joseph's other sons moved to London to take up the Butchery trade. But it is still mysterious that John moved away from Wycombe when the chair making trade there was at its height. He moved to Derby with 6 children in tow (several very small). Unable to find their 1841 census entry which might be somewhere 'halfway' and provide an explanation. Does anyone have any clues about why he might have gone - ie. was there an obvious (trade?) connection between the Wycombe area and Derby that I've missed? All ideas welcome. Claire