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Re: Reason to move to west Wales in 1900?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 09 June 25 19:58 BST (UK) »
I agree with everything the others have said.  The advantage of working on a farm in those  days was that the farmhands were often supplied with a cottage to live in.

The country had had its industrial revolution and the railways had made many more areas of the UK more prosperous.  Many more people having more money to spend meant they could afford warm woollen clothing and they could afford to eat a varied diet, not just bread.

https://www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Reason to move to west Wales in 1900?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 09 June 25 20:52 BST (UK) »
People would also advertise n newspapers that they were looking for work and employers would make offered - this is a plot point in Jane Eyre, written in 1847, so it's clearly a long standing practice. There were also agencies that jobseekers signed up with and employers contacted.

As the lad in this query was in an industrial home in Somerset, they may well have placed him out into employment in Wales when he was old enough to leave
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