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Hi Little Meg, My name is Brian Payne of Wakefield. I am also now engrosed in the search to link T W Smith son of Thomas Smith. Are you local to Kildwick?
I often come up over to Keithley and have only this week made contact with another member of a family with the same surname as my own, and from the very next village in suffolk where my family originate from;  but the link betweens has not yet been proven. However it is a fact that the image of his father in a photograph taken only a few years ago, well one could say we were brothers.
The Smith - Cockshott intrest is due to the wife of Thomas William Smith being the Greant Aunt of my father. on her birth certificate she is named 'Sabina' however throughout her life she was known as Lavinia. TWS and a couple of sons emigrated to Canada; where they found better prosperity and were joined a couple of years latter by Lavinia and several more of their TEN children. I hold a 'Journal' of a Smith descendant who made the trip over in 1983/4 in search of his roots; from which I learned of the Cockshott link.
I too am now getting on in years and are retired so I have the freedom of time to be able to travel. I need urgent assistance in this quest as yet again only TWO days ago rekindled the Canadian link to 'A Might Be' descendant who is now reasearching his own history through a his grandfather with the same forname and initial as one of JWS's sons.
Please copy in or contact my intrest to 'Thorny' as I am too. A Three person intrest is better than Two.       

Hi Patridee, I am absolutely new to Rootschat. This is my first search and reply to a Link to my own family of Payne; from Suffolk. James Payne of Brockley married Lucy Ann Farrow in 1856, Lucy was from a family living in Hawstead but don't be put off by that because the villages of Whepstead, Hawstead, Brockley, Hartest and Lawshall are all within a couple of miles of each other to form a triangle just south of Bury St Edmunds. (Close inter-relationships where common place then), with Brockley being my ancestral seat (so to speak). The main link into what you are researching is that James migrated with all his family from Suffolk up to Deepcar just 12 miles North West of Sheffield between 1871 and 1878. In the social history of the time a lot of families migrated north seeking greater prosperity but my main concern is "How did James know to come to Deepcar" is there a family link that information was passed on from those that had made an earlier move north, I don't know.  I note you live in Leeds, I'm in Wakefield and through my son posting Re-Payne on Rootschat an unknown cousin found us, she lives in Suffolk and was born in Sheffield where a couple of James and Lucy's children went to live.