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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Somerset Lookup Requests => Somerset => England => Somerset Completed Lookup Requests => Topic started by: nameless on Wednesday 22 October 08 20:54 BST (UK)
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The other day someone mentioned on the radio that in 1870-1880 lotsof people moved from Somerset to Liverpool. Didn't hear why.
Does anyone know anything about this please?
Regards
Nameless
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This ties in with my post about ancestral stonemasons who did just that!
Any further info would be gratefully received. :)
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As understand it a great agricultural depression had set in in the early 1870’s as a result of a series of very wet summers and autumns, with a consequence of very bad harvests. Labour left the land, and the villages and went into the mines of South Wales or overseas etc. and the village industries and businesses collapsed.
Stan
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Ref your string from 2008, just seen. My great great grandfather, stonemason James Brake, moved from Norton Sub Hamdon to Liverpool some time between 1870 and 1880, where his daughter Lydia married one Richard Ashley, their first child being my grandmother Alice. Family folklore believes that James came to Liverpool to work on the Anglican Cathedral.
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Carl, this is the family that I was researching years ago - my step-grandfather's line (he was one of Alice Ashley's brothers). If you make another posting (anything will do!), we can send and receive private messages and I can pass on more info.
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HI Annie, I look forward to sharing more info!
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Hi Annie
My wife's great grandmother is Lydia Brake.
I would like to share information with you.
Regards
Mal