Greeting Freida and other cousins on line, With interest i read the below extract, and i may add some interest/light to the topic... With my JOB/JOBE ancestors ( Gwennap, Cornwall), they were miners, and in my case they were there for 200 hundred years mining.... Now giveing some local history of the mining as an example, when mines went dust/broke/did not pay enought to pay wages,, owners of mines looked elserwhere to start new mines with a small crew, leaving a whole lot of miners out of work, or seeking work elsewhere. got cousins who went to the next county which is Devon, worked the mines and later in life, moved back. while others had moved further afield into UK heartland, looking for work, in mining wheather it be coal, copper or other, one cousin did finish up in Wales, for a while, then went to the States. We also had miners ( even mine) had went to the Americas, Sth America, Jamica, Sth AFrica, to work in the mines, either as miners, or as supervisors ( Captain), when they had made enought they then came home to live out the rest of their lives,,, others may have been disappointed in their new surroundsings and had moved back home to look for work etc... So far in the UK they are getting their Cenus on line, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891. She can look in the 1861 cenus, looking for Nicholas age 2 or 3, with his parents and if possible other brothers and sisters... Once establish the parents name, then back tract to the 1851/1841 cenus of the area. and if they still in residencce, then be able to go to the LDS church and hire in the microfish/film of the parish register, ( as most of the English parish registers commenced about the late 1500s, early 1600s, and ceased about the 1840s, due to centralizing all BDMs).... The other thing to keep in mind is the trade of what Nicholas did, sometimes in those early days sons followed the fathers trade ))). And finally only with a guess ( and remenber it is only a guess), Nicholas father could have been called William, and a possiblity the grandfather was Thomas...???? I hope some of these little words of wisdom helps in someway, if i am wrong please tell me and fray me alive, with cap in hand waiting with bended head.. kind regards Warren Job Australia .................................... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Freida Wells" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:51 AM Subject: [JOB] Exciting Contact!! > Hello Everyone, > > I had to share a letter I received yesterday. It is from Anne (Jobe) Bamford of North Lancashire, England > > She is working on her JOBE line over there and had been following my site and uses it frequently. Here is some of her line, I have asked she send me what she has further back. > > Excerpt: > > I am of the JOBE family in England.I have traced my JOBE family back to 1850 in Newcastle, England. > The number of Jobe and its variants families in England in 1850 is very small , not just in Newcastle but the whole of England. > > This leaves me to believe that the JOBE family has moved to England from another Country. > > I have traced back to > Nicholas William JOBE born 1858 at Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne > Annie wife born 1858 at Byker, Newcsatle Upon Tyne > Thomas son born 1878 " " " " > William son born 1880 " " " " > Martin son born 1882 " " " " > George son born 1884 " " " " > Maggie dau born 1889 " " " " > David son born 1891 " " " " > James son born 1895 " " " " > Charles son born 1898 " " " " > Isabella dau born 1900 " " " " > > Do you have records in the United States which may show a departure from there of a JOBE arriving in North East England. prior to 1850? At this time, apart from the North East, there was only one other family in England called JOBE and that was in the North West. > > > End of Excerpt > > > I wrote and told her of our line where Andrew Sr was born and when they left England and came to America and that we do know that at one time Andrew JR went back to England for his education but how long he was there we do not know. And it is very possible that some of the later descendants went back to England because they were unhappy here. I told her our line became Quakers here and were not well liked and many of them became Baptists in order to live and get along in peace. > > Has anyone out there ran across any records where a JOBE left here and went back to England? Please if you have any information contact me. > > We finally have a contact in England and we just might be able to find out more about our line and we can help her in return. She might be able to find documents for us as well. > > Freida Wells > [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >