On 26/10/2015 18:35, Charles Ellson wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:40:24 +0000, Graeme Wall > <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 26/10/2015 16:52, Charles Ellson wrote: >>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:53:48 +0000, Graeme Wall >>> <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> On 26/10/2015 00:48, Steve Hayes wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:03:56 +0000, Graeme Wall >>>>> <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 25/10/2015 20:40, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >>>>>>> In message <05c33620-c70a-4959-8a66-5dddf30c1c83@googlegroups.com>, >>>>>>> melanie chesnel <mellychesnel@gmail.com> writes: >>>>>>>> On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 9:05:20 AM UTC+2, J. P. Gilliver >>>>>>>> (John) wrote: >>>>>>> [] >>>>>>>>> In my own researches, I had assumed the coming of the railways in the >>>>>>>>> mid to late 19C would have led to much greater migration around the >>>>>>>>> country; however, I've found the effect was much less than I'd expected. >>>>>>>>> Still, when doing research for work colleagues (at Rochester in Kent), I >>>>>>>>> find quite a lot of them are from local areas. >>>>>>> [] >>>>>>>> I think even before the railways there was quite a lot of movement >>>>>>>> over long distances in some families and notably mine. Both my >>>>>>>> mother's and >>>>>>> [] >>>>>>>> This shows you can take nothing for granted about the movement of >>>>>>>> people in the past. Each family is different and some were very >>>>>>>> mobile, particularly mariners and artisans. Just think stone masons >>>>>>>> building castles and cathederals v. ag labs >>>>>>>> regards melanie chesnel >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Well, obviously I can only speak from my own researches - which are >>>>>>> that, in an awful lot of cases, people didn't move much during their >>>>>>> lifetime - even after the railways, and even in towns. Not just my own >>>>>>> family (which is diverse - but comes from a lot of little clusters who >>>>>>> mostly didn't move much), but research I've done for others too. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Occasionally you (I) _do_ find someone who's moved a long way; but, I've >>>>>>> generally found them the exception. YMMV (well, clearly does). >>>>>> >>>>>> Teachers and Churchmen! One of my wife's gg-grandfathers was both and, >>>>>> as a National School teacher he moved from Abergavenny to Manchester via >>>>>> Staffordshire, then remustered as a vicar and successively was in >>>>>> Dumbarton, a Devonshire village, Oban, Aberdeen and finally died in >>>>>> Guildford. >>>>> >>>>> One of my most puzzling ones was a gg grandfather, whose family came >>>>> from the Isle of Axholme. He lived in Hull, got married in Bath, and >>>>> Came to Natal within a month of getting married. I wondered how he >>>>> came to meet his wife, as Hull and Bath seem quite far apart. The Bath >>>>> family were from Belfast, and seem to have been from quite settled >>>>> farmers in Ballynure before the 19th century, when they scattered to >>>>> Quebec, Mauritius, Bath and Durban. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> The teacher/vicar still puzzles me about how he met his wife, he was >>>> born in Hathern, Leics. She was born in Wrexham. He was a teacher in >>>> Abergavenny and she was a teacher in Cardigan, right the other side of >>>> Wales. >>>> >>> Do you know the in-laws' whereabouts at the relative times ? >>> >> >> Hathern and Wrexham respectively! My theory is they met wherever they >> did their training but I've no idea where that was likely to have been. >> A bit like modern couples meeting at Uni. >> > My father and his first wife were brought up in Willesden but AFAIAA > met during teacher training in Exeter. > Supports my theory. Where would National School teachers do their training around 1850? -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail.