Hi, Missing Lincs, Yes, this is my new e-mail address. It is, so far, DMARC-proof, so my LINCSGEN mail gets delivered to me here. I saw on another list that someone wondered why so many people moved about the country in the early 1800s. Well, they didn't have smart phones, apparently, so I guess they couldn't get all the answers by staying home! Sorry, those of us who have followed a smart-phone user in the grocery store know about the urge to smash a smart-phone between two cans of beans. :-) No, the early 1800s were an interesting time. Blockades were used to cut off supplies to Napoleon, and the blockades cut the supply of some markets to our ancestors in Lincolnshire, too. When they were lifted about 1815, suddenly we had an influx of cheap goods, and unemployed soldiers and sailors. The "Irish Potato Famine" in 1840, also affected potato growers in northern England and we had another influx of Irish labourers. The first steam engine for commercial use was developed by James WATT in 1781 and began to be widely used for farming, industry, draining the fens, etc. One of my ancestors apparently was fascinated by the steam engine and learned to drive a steam tractor. From there he got a job driving a steam engine on the railroads, another new presence in the early 1800s. So we had a lot going on in northern England and it was a time for some people to take advantage of the new jobs, others lost their jobs doue to industrialization. The Luddites burned a lot of frame-work knitting machines, even the ones run by hand or horsepower. There was some social unrest because of ideas that had been around since the French and American Revolutions and the government was committed to the idea of "one man, one vote", which was new and dangerous in the eyes of some. Civil Registration came along, an obvious plot by the government to many folk and a lot of parish boundaries were "adjusted" to include areas that were outside their boundaries. The first steamship was built in 1837 (the SS Sirius), which began reliable service over the oceans. They must have been heady times. You could move somewhere else where pay was better. You could take your trade somewhere where it was needed. You could go to one of the new countreis were land was free (or at least cheap), and own your own farm. Wow! It's actually a wonder more of them didn't go. Lou (list admin.)

There was another reason for movement and that was mining,amongst my west country ancestors there are many surnames that trace their origins back to the midlands and the north east and this was because of tin mining in Cornwall and  of course the clay industry down there too, for instance Armstrong is a surname that only appears in Northumberland except for one line in Cornwall which hails back to the 1600's and was a man from the very old Lead mining industry in the north east who came to Cornwall to help with their lead mining industry and married and stayed. I know it doesn't really apply to Lincolnshire as I don't think there was any mining there but certainly there was in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire and many of my lead and tin mining ancesters crossed over the Bristol channel when the tin and lead mining industry died in Cornwall and went to South Wales to start mining coal. regards Elaine Westaway Hampshire UK On Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 22:39, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Missing Lincs,     Yes, this is my new e-mail address.  It is, so far, DMARC-proof, so my LINCSGEN mail gets delivered to me here.     I saw on another list that someone wondered why so many people moved about the country in the early 1800s.  Well, they didn't have smart phones, apparently, so I guess they couldn't get all the answers by staying home!  Sorry, those of us who have followed a smart-phone user in the grocery store know about the urge to smash a smart-phone between two cans of beans.  :-)     No, the early 1800s were an interesting time.  Blockades were used to cut off supplies to Napoleon, and the blockades cut the supply of some markets to our ancestors in Lincolnshire, too.  When they were lifted about 1815, suddenly we had an influx of cheap goods, and unemployed soldiers and sailors.  The "Irish Potato Famine" in 1840, also affected potato growers in northern England and we had another influx of Irish labourers.  The first steam engine for commercial use was developed by James WATT in 1781 and began to be widely used for farming, industry, draining the fens, etc.  One of my ancestors apparently was fascinated by the steam engine and learned to drive a steam tractor.  From there he got a job driving a steam engine on the railroads, another new presence in the early 1800s.     So we had a lot going on in northern England and it was a time for some people to take advantage of the new jobs, others lost their jobs doue to industrialization.  The Luddites burned a lot of frame-work knitting machines, even the ones run by hand or horsepower.  There was some social unrest because of ideas that had been around since the French and American Revolutions and the government was committed to the idea of "one man, one vote", which was new and dangerous in the eyes of some.  Civil Registration came along, an obvious plot by the government to many folk and a lot of parish boundaries were "adjusted" to include areas that were outside their boundaries.     The first steamship was built in 1837 (the SS Sirius), which began reliable service over the oceans.     They must have been heady times.  You could move somewhere else where pay was better.  You could take your trade somewhere where it was needed.  You could go to one of the new countreis were land was free (or at least cheap), and own your own farm.  Wow!  It's actually a wonder more of them didn't go.       Lou (list admin.) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message