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.
