Migration Workers 1860's from Norfolk to Yorkshire HALL & HOWMAN

[bendywendy]

Hi everyone,
Wow I cannot believe that this thread is still finding folk...but then I said it would, hope someone is collating all this info and then lodge the Tree with the Archives department in Hull, this is what history is all about, finding, helping and sharing.
Keep it growing you lot
Bendywendy

[crete]

Hi All

Thanks for all information this is really good, also I if you are looking on the Hall side of your family I had a Great Aunt Elizabeth Howman, she married a Harold Hall they emigrated to Australia with  her brother Alfred Ernest Howman and his wife Violet around 1948-1950.

Regards

Crete

[bendywendy]

Hi Crete
Harold Hall - where did he "come from" so to speak??
Thanks
Bendywendy

[crete]

Hi There

Have'nt got all details yet, next time I speak to mam will see what else she can tell me.

Regards

Crete

[bendywendy]

thankyou, will await to hear with ernest.......us FH researchers are not very patient are we???
Bendywendy

[crete]

Hi Bendywendy

Like the name by the way, spoke to mam today, she says the Harold Hall my Great Aunt Beth married was from Hornsea and he had three sisters who were all spinsters. Are you from the Howman side or the Hall side of the family.

Regards

Crete

[bendywendy]

Hi Crete
My dau's choose the name !!!!!! along with my personal email address !!!!
I am from the Hall side, the Howman's just come to be on this board because of their migration from Norfolk and I must say is proving to be extremely interesting.
My Hall clan came from Norfolk mid 1860's and settled in Holme upon Spalding Moor, but they did move out of HOSM and into other areas.
Do you know the name of Harold Hall's father and where he came from??
Await your reply.
Bendywendy

[crete]

Hi There

Will try to find out more when next speak to mam, I am from the  Howman side but as you see my e-mail user name is also my home.

Regards

Crete

[Rena]

I just chanced upon this thread and stayed to read the absorbing facts.  Coincidentally I was born and bred in Hull and my grandfather's ag. lab. family were originally from Norfolk but some (like yours) had to migrate in the middle of the 19th century.   There's a website (below) which outlines the cause of the migration (war, bad harvest and overpopulation in Norfolk) and describes the feeing fairs which were held around Britain on Michaelmas Day. The same fairs were held across mainland Europe too.  I can't find it now but there's a jpeg online of an annual labour fair/market held in Glasgow.

http://www.cambridgeshirehistory.com/People/agriculturallabourers.html

 It was the normal custom for hiring to be done once a year, at Michaelmas (29 September), the place of hiring almost always being a country fair, or, less often, a market. The fairs were frequently called 'hiring fairs' (although other business and sales would also be transacted), and they were common throughout the county (eg. 25 were held in 1762). The labourers would stand on a platform, or in an enclosure, to be 'looked over by the prospective employers for features such as strength, general appearance and character (and, in the case of girls, probably their attractiveness as well!). They would then be questioned about their skills and abilities, their previous employment and their liabilities (which might well include wives and children