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Subject: Migration to the North
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:13:21 EST

I've read somewhere that at some point in the 19th century large numbers of
people, largely paupers I think, were sent to the industrial areas of the
North of England by the Overseers of the Poor. Does anyone know when this was
happening? My 2xgt-grandmother and her illegitimate daughter came from Aldington
to Macclesfield in Cheshire sometime between 1851 and 1863 - would these
dates fit in and would there be any records if it does?

Regards

Dorothy

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