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From: "Geoff Riggs" <>
Subject: Re: [DOR] Puddletown & Tolpuddle & LOVELESS
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:12:53 +0100
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Ray is quite correct in his comments - as he always is ;-)

However, I have found from my analyses of the RIGGS families in
this area that there was a high degree of mobility between
Puddletown and Tolpuddle, and indeed Affpuddle and the other
neighbouring villages.

Maybe they tended to gravitate towards Puddletown as the larger
'town' where employment prospects may have been better,
especially with the decline in agriculture in Dorset in the
latter half of the 19thC.

If, therefore, you asked your original question, Irene,
wondering whether the Tolpuddle and Puddletown LOVELESSes were
possibly related, the answer is that they could be. Bear in
mind, however, that there a considerable number of LOVELESS
families in Dorset, so they are not necessarily related.

There is a mailing list which is
researching the Loveless/Lovelace connections in England.,
though it tends to concentrate on the LOVELESS families of
Tolpuddle related to the original Tolpuddle Martyrs. Donna
King, one of the leading lights on that List, also subscribes to
DORSET-L and she may be able to help you further.

Geoff Riggs
Chepstow, South Wales


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Collins" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [DOR] Puddletown & Tolpuddle & LOVELESS


> Irene wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me how far Puddletown is from Tolpuddle
please?
> > Are they close enough that is the 1891 census they would be
classed as one
> place?
> > Would Puddletown have had a large population in 1891 and
were they mainly
> farmers?
>
> Hello Irene
>
> Definitely two separate places 3 to 4 miles apart. They would
have been in
> different Enumerators Districts but are quite likely to be in
the same
> Superintendent Regisistrars District (Dorchester I would
guess, along with
> many other villages).
>
> Puddletown was and is a fairly large village surrounded by
farmland
> (currently about 1200 population). Tolpuddle is the same but
much smaller
> (currently about 300).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ray Collins
> Weymouth, Dorset
>
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