Hi Josie, Please excuse the reply, my computer is poorly AGAIN, (good job it's still under warranty ) and this is a borrowed one. My husbands Bingham family moved from the area between 1861 and 1871, and went to Sittingbourne to work in the brickfields. His 2x Gt Grandfather George Bingham was an ag lab until then,in the 1871census he and his family were living in Murston and were working for George Smeed at his brickworks there. One of Georges sons ( William ) was living next door with his wife and baby son, he also worked for Smeeds, but I think William and Emma may have emigrated after that as there are no other details I can find, can't even pinpoint where they may have emigrated to either. Another son (Harry ) also went to work in the brickfields but at Frindsbury Kent. When the brickfields went into decline after 1901, the younger members of the families all seem to have moved on again, this time further up to Greenwich and Woolwich. It seems to be Greenwich Gas works for some, my husbands Grandfather was a stoker there, he joined the Royal Navy in 1916 as a Stoker, but unfortunately died of Hepatitis in the War Hospital in Bombay India, in September 1917. He was 34 yrs old. Hope you get lots of info for your October project, Regards, Lyn Latimer (Hopefully, I should have my computer back shortly and will be back on my usual e-mail address ) Original Message: ----------------- From: Josie Mackie josie.mackie@tesco.net Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:29:11 +0100 To: eng-ken-woodchurch@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH] 19th Century Migration from Woodchurch Good Afternoon All, I am going to do a talk for the Woodchurch Local History Society in October on Work and Occupations in Woodchurch 1700-1900. As part of it, I want to include a piece on the lack of work in the village for much of the nineteenth century, and the large number of villagers migrating to other places in England or emigrating to other parts of the World. My own grandparents left Woodchurch a little later-about 1910- to emigrate to Canada, and no doubt half of me(!) would be living there today, had it not been for my grandfather's being killed in France in WWl and my grandmother then returning to England with their children. If your ancestor left Woodchurch in the nineteeth century, I would love to hear from you, especially if you know why they moved. Thanks, Josie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange