Lummiss

[hullnow]

I`ve started researching my wife`s family.They were Lummiss living in Laxfield and Hoxne.I`ve got the family in suffolk from 18th to late 19th centuries then  they seem to travel to other parts of the country.Was there any particular reason for migration from Suffolk at that time?

[Keziah2]

Work usually - any clues on the CRs?

The Lummis' (Daniel & John) I can see bpt children in Laxfield  in the mid 1800's were labourers.  You don't say where in the north they went - some of my lot went to work in Yorkshire - the coalfields.

K

[hullnow]

Keziah2
the branch of lummiss I am looking at moved to Hedon near Hull.I have a John Lummiss b 1844 working as a servant at Frog Hall Farm,he married a Priscilla Smith they had a son Herbert who was my wifes grandfather

[avm228]

Suffolk was very dependent on the agricultural economy, which suffered badly in the second half of the 19th century and in particular from the 1870s when there was a series of poor harvests.  My Suffolk ancestors left Framlingham for London in about 1866-67; many East Anglians migrated to the cities for better work prospects, while others emigrated overseas.

This site is very interesting for Suffolk researchers:

www.foxearth.org.uk/Emigration2.html#third

[Keziah2]

I can see a John LUMMISS bpt 20 Oct 1844 Laxfield, son of John & Eunice

K

[hullnow]

Keziah2
Yes that`s the man