Post by cowdogsam on Jun 21, 2010 11:02:20 GMT -5
My non-Cornish side GGfather, name of Wright, left rural Norfolk, picked up a wife part-way in Goole Yorkshire in the 1870s
Sue....
Looks as though we have something in common there !
My Lanteglos - by - Camelford (area, in the loose sense of the word) line.
One stray wandered off from his agricultural labourer status at some point after the 1871 census. By 1881 he was living in Doncaster with a wife from Norfolk and children.
Where and how they met i don't know, but they married in Leeds (about 40 miles north of Doncaster) which is where he started his 'railway' involvment. From there it is fairly obvious that the move to Doncaster was work related, where he worked his way up through the ranks and retired as an inspector.
I have yet to work out whether they both departed the rural life and landed in Leeds, met and married there. Or if they met elsewhere and Leeds was a stop off along the way.
Maybe something i'll never know, but you never know what information is lurking around the next corner.
White.....
Are you aware of any Tin being transported to the East coast at all.... Whitby, Middlesborough area? At the time they were mining Alum and Ironstone up there, maybe a similar thing was happening.
Mal...
My husband found his way back into the clergy. One of his ancestors was the rector of Kilkhampton. I can't remember which century, but we were there last year, and found both him and his wife were buried in the church. There's two lovely little tiles in the floor there dedicated to them........ ironically they were covered up for years by the church organ, and only found in the 1950's.