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 My gg grandfather was dismissed from a bookbinding apprenticeship in Stratford on Avon  for dishonesty in 1817.
He married in Birmingham the following year and in 1824 had become a wine and spirit merchant in Wrexham. He went bankrupt and did not attend the hearing. The newspaper described him as:blind of the right eye, and his other eye is remarkably odd formed

It has occurred to  me that he could not have been a bookbinder if he was partially sighted. So I wonder-did he return to his home town of Birmingham and work in industry and was he then injured?
Would an employer have paid compensation for injury? This is pure speculation on my part-I've always wondered where he got the money for the move to Wrexham and the setting up of his business- perhaps compensation might explain it.

I have a 3x great grandmother in my tree, Amy Davey, born Great Yarmouth about 1805, she married twice and lived in Yarmouth for 90 years. I was trying to trace children living with her on the Norfolk board (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=670463.0) and someone suggested she may have been baptised in Wrentham:
AMY DAVY chr. 27 November 1805 Wrentham Suffolk. Parents: Daniel Davy and Elizabeth Stannard. (Family search)
I'd previouly discounted the record as being too far form Yarmouth, but I've been researching some more and found some interesting evidence.
On 23rd May 1791, in Wrentham Suffolk Daniel Davey married Elizabeth Stannard (Family search)
On 27 November 1791 in Wrentham, they baptised a son, John (Familysearch)
On 19th November 1792 in Yarmouth St Nicholas they buried a son, John. Notes state Mother nee Stannard (Freereg)
In October 1802 in Yarmouth St Nicholas they buried an infant daughter named Amey (notes state "the mother's maiden name was Stannard").
It seems possible that the family travelled to & fro between Yarmouth and Wrentham, or possibly settled in Yarmouth but returned to Wrentham for baptisms. (That would fit in with Amy's census records where she always gave Yarmouth as her pob.)
Daniel Davey was also baptised in Wrentham, according to Familysearch, in 1766. His father's name was John and his mother was Sarah Barrett. They married in Wrentham in 1757(Family search)

My questions are-is it likely that a family would travel between Yarmouth and Wrentham? Was Yarmouth a town that Wrentham people would have chosen for work? (A Daniel Davey was a carpenter according to Yarmouth poll records but there were others of that name-a sailor and a publican- in the town.
Also are there any more records for these people or any other online sources? (There's nothing on Ancestry except the Yarmouth poll records) They don't appear on the 1841 census, so had probably died by then.
I can find no other records of Elizabeth Stannard, I don't know whether she was also from Wrentham or elsewhere in Suffolk. There are Stannards in Norfolk but no record of an Elizabeth of the right age.
If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, I will be very grateful. Jan

My 2x great grandmother had a long and eventful life, but I can't find out when it ended. She was born Harriet Osborne in Ketteringham in about 1821 and married Simon Jackson in in 1841. They had 4 children, 2 of whom survived infancy. Simon died in 1853 and Harriet's last child was born 18 months later.
Harriet worked in service for the next 20 or so years and married Robert Ewing in 1873. She was widowed again in 1889.
In 1891 she was a lodger in Hethersett, can't be found in 1901 and in 1911 is still in Hethersett living with her daughter Sarah Ann (Jackson) and son-in-law, Robert Bailey, aged 90.
I've searched Free BMD and can't find a death record for Harriet Ewing. I've also checked her previous surnames and the spelling Hewing but nothing fits.
The only death of the right age is in 1912 in North Yorkshire. While Harriet had relatives in County Durham, I can't imagine a 91 year old paying a family visit of that distance in 1912!
Could anyone suggest where I could search next?

I'm trying to trace William Osborne of Ketteringham Norfolk, baptised 28 February 1819, the eldest son of William and Harriet Osborne. I hadn't found any record of him after baptism until I happened on a record of the 1851 census for the Tower of London Garrison: HO107/1546/674 p 36. The year of birth is 1819, the place of birth is transcribed Killerham, Norfolk, which doesn't exist. It could easily be a poorly written Ketteringham. If it is William I cannot find any further record of him.

I wonder if anyone has any further ideas. Is it the William Osborne that I am looking for, and, if so, where could I look next? I tried googling Tower of London Garrison but I didn't find anything helpful

I'm not sure where to post this really so I thought the Common Room was my best bet to start with.

In 1851 my 3x great grandfather was a farm labourer in Ketteringham. In 1861, aged 65, he had moved to Earsdon Northumberland with his wife, the youngest of his 14 children and a grandson. He remained a farm labourer but the two young men were coal miners. Other members of his family, sons, daughters, nephews and nieces also travelled North, settling in either Northumberland or County Durham. In each case the men worked as miners or as labourers in related industries. Some moved with their Norfolk spouses others found partners in their new home.
I haven't followed all the families but so far I haven't found a record of any returning to Norfolk. (The exodus seems to have escaped oral history-my late mother was unaware that any of the family had ever left the county. )
I assume that changes in agriculture and lack of employment opportunities drove the families northwards. Presumably it was fairly easy to travel in returning coal barges.Was this a common occurrence or were my ancestors unusual?