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My most beloved family were sent by waggon in 1840

Thanks Jon, it must have been a distressing process, especially for people who may have been ill or elderly or with young children. I suppose the waggon was driven by someone so they were in effect directly escorted, and in addition the parish official also went in your case in more comfortable transport ! Some significant expense must have been involved for parishes to do this on a regular basis. I wonder if people were ever allowed to find they own way back to their place of settlement, or there was always some sort of transport involved.

I have been looking through several parish's removal orders (both to and from the parish) and also settlement examinations, which often provide quite fascinating information about a person's origins, early life, or type of work they had and at what age and time. It also gives a very good idea of how people moved around the local area, and around the country (and even wider British territories). When people became destitute, perhaps through illness and becoming unable to work, they became chargeable to the parish in where they resided. That parish would then enquire as to whether that person had a legal settlement in the parish and so was eligible for parish relief. If they had served one year as a servant, or served an apprenticeship, the parish in which that occurred would be their legal place of settlement, rather than their parish of birth.
   What I am really unclear about is how the process of removal was handled. Would the person, and their family if they had any, be escorted to their legally agreed place of settlement? If they were not, what was to stop them becoming vagrants and moving parish to parish as they liked? What about cases where people's legal place of settlement was agreed to be in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or some other British territory, such as America, Australia, India etc? Or the other end of England say from Hampshire to Durham? Surely it was not practical to expect the people to return to there? So in such cases, how was it handled?

Quote from: melba_schmelba on Friday 27 December 24 13:28 GMT (UK)

The digital archive provides a treasure trove of information that was previously difficult to access

Well I've managed to do it often enough!
https://col-burialregisters.uk/archive

Yes it has been online for some time in a browsable format, it is not in any way indexed by name though, which is what TheGenealogist is now providing.

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2024/from-the-elephant-man-to-forgotten-londoners-a-graveyard-of-untold-secrets-revealed-7912/


"TheGenealogist has unveiled a comprehensive new searchable database of burial records for the City of London Cemetery. This remarkable resource opens up unprecedented access to historical records, allowing researchers to trace the final resting places of hundreds of thousands of individuals who were laid to rest in one of London’s most significant burial grounds.

For the first time, family historians can easily navigate through extensive burial records with just a few clicks. The digital archive provides a treasure trove of information that was previously difficult to access, offering insights into the lives and deaths of individuals who played a part in the rich tapestry of London’s history. "

"When the cemetery was officially consecrated in 1857, it represented a significant leap forward in urban cemetery design. Unlike the cramped, chaotic burial grounds of the past, this new cemetery offered spacious plots, organised sections and a sense of dignity to the memorial process. It could accommodate up to 250,000 burials—an almost unimaginable number at the time—and provided options for various social classes and religious denominations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Crematorium

Sometimes when researching the lines of matches I click on profiles for people who have a certain name in their tree.  Sometimes even though they don't show as a DNA match, at the bottom of the profile page it will show the ancestral regions, in the same way it does for DNA matches

Does anyone know why this is?  Is it because the person is a 6cM match but doesn't meet the 8CM limit to show up in matches?

Good question! I am not sure I have noticed this. But I do know that 6-7cM matches are in some way still active, as they still get updated as common ancestor links for those that have saved them.