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From: "Ann McClean" <>
Subject: Re: [FENS] Higher Booths, Lancs.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:32:07 +0100
References: <4.2.0.58.20010404222635.00cb7b70@mail.btinternet.com>


Dear Terry,

Many thanks for your lucid explanation about "Higher Booths".
But why did I get all the necessary info from the Fens List and nothing
from the Lancs List?!

Following Martin's suggestion, I checked the Cambs Strays List on the
CFHS website, and found one of my Gt Gt Gt Grandfather's son's and
his family in Rossendale on the 1871 Census. They were obviously the
original PALMER emigrants from Burwell, Cambs, and by the 1881
Census, more cousins had joined them.

I wonder if I will find more Burwell PALMERs there on the 1891?
I know there will be a few on the 1901!

----- Original Message -----
From: THJ <>
To: <>
Sent: 04 April 2001 22:39
Subject: [FENS] Higher Booths


> Higher Booths was an administrative area within the Rossendale Valley
> before the creation of the Borough of Rawtenstall in the late 1880's. It
> comprised, as you rightly have said the area to the north of Rawtenstall,
> taking in Reedsholme, Crawhawbooth, Loveclough, Goodshaw and
> Dunnockshaw. There were also some detached parts of Higher Booths near
to
> Rawtenstall centre. The area where the town of Rawtenstall is
> situated and parts to the south and East of the town were in Lower
Booths.
>
> A booth was a temporary summer dwelling for people looking after cattle in
> the pasturelands which existed pre mid 1750 and were the chief occupation
> of those parts. There are about twenty local placenames containing the
> word Booth.
>
> Many families from the Fens moved to the industrial areas of Lancashire
> during the mid- late 1800's as the need for cheap labour grew in the
Cotton
> areas and the numbers of unemployed agricultural workers
> increased. Lancashire millowners often struck deals with the Parish
> officials to move unemployed families north.
>
> In the census returns for the Rossendale towns, there is hardly a village
> in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire that isn't represented.

Regards, Ann McClean
in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K.

Bobbin Lacemaking Pages
http://www.ann-mcclean.mid-wales.net
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CAWTHORN, SCOTT & Da SILVA/PALMER Family History Pages:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/
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