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From: Cathy Pinner <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] ADMIN: January THEME: Immigration/emigration
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:08:14 +0800
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Middlesex is London or the outskirts of London depending on the time. There
is little mystery why people move to a capital or other big centre -
especially when it is growing - work and the attraction of a "happening"
place. It still happens in Australia.

I understand that it is a rare English family that doesn't have members
that moved to London.

Cathy

At 01:35 PM 3/01/2005, you wrote:

>Hi Jane,
>Yes, my Somerset ancestors moved to Middlesex too, and I don't know why
>either. George BEVAN was a miller by tradeand lived in Keynsham. Some
>of their children were born in Somerset but in the 1860's they were in
>Middlesex. They stayed on in Middlesex and the parents died there in
>1900 and 1901 respectively. At least one of George's brothers ended up
>there too. However, my great grandmother Jessie emigrated to Australia in
>1883, married and settled in Brisbane for 10 years, finishing up in
>Ballarat, Victoria in the later years.
>I really think the reason for moving from Somerset must have been work
>related. Yours is much the same sort of story as mine.
>
>Shirley in Sydney
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "J T Pearson Outdoor Training"
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>Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:09 PM
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>
>>Does anyone else have SOM ancestors moving to Middlesex?
>>This is what my WEBBER family did and I have to wonder why.
>>They show up in Brompton by 1827 and I first wondered if they were
>>originally from Brompton Regis and were attracted by the name, but the 1851
>>shows my ggetc Samuel to have been born in Curry Rivel.
>>Brompton (think Harrods, V and A etc) at the time was a very rural area with
>>lots of market gardens and Samuel worked as a gardener. I am guessing that
>>he probably started out working life as an Ag lab and presumably reckoned
>>that gardening was a better option, but why move there in the first place.
>>By 1861 there seem to have been quite a few west country and SOM people
>>living in the Kensington/Chelsea area and check out the 1881 as well for
>>emigrants.
>>Incidentally Samuel's daughter Elizabeth (who was alledgedly b in MDX not
>>SOM) ended up emigrating first to NSW with her husband Edward PEARSON and
>>two children and then to NZ a few years later (this time with four children
>>in tow)
>>Regards
>>Jane

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