« Reply #72 on: Thursday 24 November 22 15:46 GMT (UK) »
Guy Etchells always said not to underestimate the travelling of our ancestors, and agreed how a percentage of our pre Victorian ancestors were more mobile than we think. Seems many of mine were, my Freeman's of Kidlington, Oxfordshire in the mid 1700s had roots 20 miles SW and 10 miles east of it. And an ancestor born 1832 in Co Durham had a Scottish grandfather and a Westmoreland grandfather. Plus several more examples I can give from Norfolk ancestor in London in 1780 and lots of Suffolk roots who moved to Essex c1780-1810.
And in a far wider context I was amazed to learn there were thousands of Scots who emigrated to Poland during the early 16 century! (e.g. :
https://www.scottishdiasporatapestry.org/poland/ )
RIP Guy.
BORCHARDT in Poland/Germany, BOSKOWITZ in Czechoslovakia, Hungary + Austria, BUSS in Baden, Germany + Switzerland, FEKETE in Hungary + Austria, GOTTHILF in Hammerstein + Berlin, GUBLER, GYSI, LABHARDT & RYCHNER in Switzerland, KONIG & KRONER in Germany, PLACZEK, WUNSCH & SILBERBERG in Poland.
Also: ROWSE in Brixham, Tenby, Hull & Ramsgate. Strongman, in Falmouth. Champion. Coke. Eame/s. Gibbons. Passmore. Pulsever. Sparkes in Brixham & Ramsgate. Toms in Cornwall. Waymoth. Wyatt.
