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. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail.

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. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus