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Topic: Wiltshire to Wales travel in late 1880s (Read 602 times)
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bicker
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Hi there
Out of interest a lot of my husbands relations from Somerset also went to work in Wales at the same sort of time. Some of them left by train, the Somerset and Dorset line (Slow and Dirty!). Others left by barge from Bridgwater. A relation now mid 50s would travel back to Meare in Somerset as a child from Cardiff on the steamer to Weston Super Mare.
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Somerset
Areas Bridgwater, Street, Glastonbury and surrounding Villages
Names, Whitcombe (and variations) , Diment, Mounsher, Cave
Wiltshire
Areas Pewsey, Calne
Clements, Ashton, Henly, Groves, Burgess
Kent
All, Folkestone for Punnett family
Punnett, Roalfe (and variations), Vaughan, Tuff,
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Elizabeth Revel
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Thank you Dee for a reason to walk down memory lane.
This does not really answer your question but I engaged Google Earth and travelled to the places of my youth. Corsham is about 20 miles from Bristol and the rail line went there so that part of the journey would have been very easy. At that time there was a station at Corsham for passengers as well as sidings where the quarried stone was loaded to be transported to its destination. (No longer any station there, though the main line still runs through, I believe) If it was necessary to go via Gloucester, one would have taken the train going to London and changed trains along the line to one headed for Gloucester. As a child I made that journey alone to visit relations and managed with the instructions I had been given so it would have been easy for adults. I do not know about the ongoing leg to Wales but suspect that it would not have been radically difficult. Another thing to think about was that our current obsession with speed is a modern phenomenon and while people did not want to waste time , energy or money they would have been comfortable with spending some hours making the journey. Trains ran quite frequently so not a lot of waiting around between legs of the journey.
Much of the southern agricultural part of the country was very depressed in the time frame you mention and many people had to move in order to survive. The call of opportunity in North America and Australia was embraced because there was little of it at home and all those ag. labs were needed on the land in the vast expanses of the newer world.
I shudder to think of anyone allowing a young child to make a similar journey today.
Parents would be accused of negligence but I have happy memories of the event and the lovely "posh" lunch I was treated to on my arrival.
Beth
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Lancashire and Cheshire: Harding, Turner, Gandy, Rigby, Bancroft, Moorcroft, Wright Wiltshire: Webb, Hayter, Mussell, Curtice, Sheppard Hampshire: Harper, Rawlings Ireland: Revels, Qua, Alexander, Clegg Bucks, Northants, Derby, Leicester and Cheshire: Spokes, Glover, Sturgess, Attewell, Whiting, Lester, Hall |
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nicky c
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Beth,
Some of our relies went to Wales and then on to America as they were Mormans.
Nicky
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Elizabeth Revel
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Nicky,
Tell me more!!
Beth
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Lancashire and Cheshire: Harding, Turner, Gandy, Rigby, Bancroft, Moorcroft, Wright Wiltshire: Webb, Hayter, Mussell, Curtice, Sheppard Hampshire: Harper, Rawlings Ireland: Revels, Qua, Alexander, Clegg Bucks, Northants, Derby, Leicester and Cheshire: Spokes, Glover, Sturgess, Attewell, Whiting, Lester, Hall |
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