There is a sentence in the Statistical Accounts (1845?) of Kirkinner reporting that many of the young men of Kirkinner left the parish in the early-mid 1800s to enter into the tea trade in England. I found some support for this type of emigration in the 1841 census, where I found a house full of late adolescent male Scots living and working in Coventry with a head of household whose occupation was listed as tea dealer. Does anyone else have a relative that met with this fate? My gggrandfather started his working life in England selling tea so I'm interested to know more about this phenomenon. _________________________________________________________________ See Fireworks On Live Image Search http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Fireworks&mkt=en-ca&FORM=SERNEP

Hi, I don't think this was just Kirkinner. I have found one of my family from Dumfriesshire living with his cousin in Totnes, Devon on the 1861 census, occupations Drapers and Tea Dealers. His brother was living in Oxford in 1861 a Draper. I have come across a large number of Scots in England with these two occupations. My relatives were back in Dfs in 1871 as Stone Masons, their father's trade!! I have also found several later relatives from both Wgt and Dfs working as police officers mainly in Carlisle and Liverpool. My family either moved to England, Glasgow / Edinburgh or they migrated to the New World. Many migrated later after moves within Britain. I guess this is the normal pattern for most families as the rural economy in SW Scotland could not support expanding families. Any views on why these particular occupations? >From: "Stewart McK" <gorbuscha@hotmail.com> >To: sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIG LIST] Kirkinner and tea dealers >Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:54:39 -0700 > >There is a sentence in the Statistical Accounts (1845?) of Kirkinner >reporting that many of the young men of Kirkinner left the parish in the >early-mid 1800s to enter into the tea trade in England. I found some >support >for this type of emigration in the 1841 census, where I found a house full >of late adolescent male Scots living and working in Coventry with a head of >household whose occupation was listed as tea dealer. Does anyone else have >a >relative that met with this fate? My gggrandfather started his working life >in England selling tea so I'm interested to know more about this >phenomenon. > >_________________________________________________________________ >See Fireworks On Live Image Search >http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=Fireworks&mkt=en-ca&FORM=SERNEP > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk/