Hi List, All my ancestors moved from one village to another around Devon and over the border into Dorset, I daresay they were regarded as incomers, the settlement certificates and removal orders certainly indicate that they weren`t always welcome !!!! Villages do change and of the six families living in cob cottages at Budleigh Salterton when it was a saltings and fishing hamlet must have both resented the gentry who built wonderful houses up the sea front, and welcomed the jobs these incomers provided, and Salterton today is a seriously busy little town. People have prospered. If people are willing to join in as clearly Ros of Wareham is, then give an inch and welcome them, you cannot know how incomparably better your lives are against those who have the misfortune to live in London, talk to them and show them the cockerel that crows , tell them about the 500 year old bells in the Saxon tower, involve them.....don`t isolate them.