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Migration from East Anglia To Tyneside 1870's
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GinN | Report | 29 Oct 2012 14:46 |
A number of my ancestors , all of them agricultural workers, moved up to Tyneside, particularly Gateshead, to work in industries such as the railway, in the 1870's.Was the state of agriculture in East Anglia so bad at this time? Has anyone else noticed this in their tree? |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 29 Oct 2012 15:03 |
Google search results seem to indicate that there was an 'Agricultural depression in England, 1873-96', which might explain the ag lab migration. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 29 Oct 2012 15:09 |
My maternal ancestors were mostly ag. labs in Hertfordshire and they also started working on the railways, gradually moving closer to London, eventually ending up in Peckham. |
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GinN | Report | 29 Oct 2012 16:43 |
Thankyou for your replies. I have just looked at some websites , particularly "the song of the emigrant ship" -very interesting. |
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Andrew | Report | 29 Oct 2012 17:15 |
Some of my ancestors from Wiltshire ended up in South Wales for the same reason. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 2 Nov 2012 00:36 |
Some of my Suffollk ag labs left the land to make the agricultural machinery that threw them off the land!! |
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TessAkaBridgetTheFidget | Report | 2 Nov 2012 02:59 |
Just read this thread, had the same thought as you Andy, re WDYTYR and Jeremy Paxman. |
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Unknown | Report | 2 Nov 2012 20:44 |
Hii, |