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From: "Brenda King" <>
Subject: Re: [FENS] 1871 Census - William Green and lost Fenlanders generally
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:29:12 +0000


Hello Amanda

Thanks for your reply. I must admit I hadn't dreamt that he may have left
East Anglia altogether but what you say does make sense.

I'm just hoping you are wrong otherwise I'll never find him!

Brenda






>From: "Amanda Gothard" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [FENS] 1871 Census - William Green and lost Fenlanders
>generally
>Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:14:49 +1000
>
>I wouldn't totally dismiss the idea of him leaving the area at the time of
>the census and then returning a couple of years later.
>
>I had a similar problem trying to track down some of my family who were
>mostly ag labourers. It wasn't until someone told me that many of the ag
>labourers often left the fens in autumn and headed north to Yorkshire to
>work in the cotton mills during winter and then returned in spring/summer
>for the plantings and harvests. My family were fairly poor and had to go
>where the work was. It also explained why a Yorkshire branch of the family
>seemed to spring from nowhere. They either liked Yorkshire so much they
>decided to stay or perhaps there wasn't enough work in the fens.
>
>Researching - Gothard(1600-current), Ellwood(1800s), Nightingale(1800s),
>Pake(1700s), Charles(1700s)
>
>Amanda Gothard
>Brisbane, Australia
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brenda King" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: 1 February 2003 4:25
>Subject: Re: [FENS] 1871 Census - William Green and lost Fenlanders
>generally
>
>
> > Hello Caroline
> >
> > Thanks very much for replying, and for the idea, but I doubt he would
>have
> > gone to London for work and returned to Norfolk within 3 years.
> >
> > He was an ag lab at the time of his marriage in 1874 and also in 1881 so
>I
> > am pretty sure he was in the Fens somewhere and that the answer to my
> > problem may well explain how and where he met his future wife, ELIZABETH
> > BUTTERS. Her father, THOMAS BUTTERS was a farmer and owned a beershop in
> > Walpole St Andrew at the time and I suspect he may even have met
>Elizabeth
> > at the beershop which would mean he was working in Walpole St Andrew or
> > surrounding area.
> >
> > Brenda
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "caroline whately-smith" <>
> > >Reply-To:
> > >To:
> > >Subject: Re: [FENS] 1871 Census - William Green and lost Fenlanders
> > >generally
> > >Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:21:25 +0000
> > >
> > >Re lost people from the Fens generally: a lerge number went to work on
>the
> > >railways and are to be found in the North London area. I was in the
>record
> > >Office in New Southgate (North London) a while ago and the man in there
>was
> > >telling how many people he had come across from the fenlands who were
>now
> > >living in North London/South herts, employed on the railways.
> > >
> > >Is it possible that your William Green was one of these?
> > >
> > >CW-S
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>From: "Brenda King" <>
> > >>Reply-To:
> > >>To:
> > >>Subject: [FENS] 1871 Census - William Green
> > >>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:18:52 +0000
> > >>
> > >>Hello Listers
> > >>
> > >>I know this is a shot in the dark but I have temporarily lost my Gt
> > >>Grandfather, WILLIAM GREEN, in 1871.
> > >>
> > >>He was born in Stow but was not at home at the time of the 1871
>census.
>I
> > >>have found him in 1874, marrying in Walpole St Andrew so I presume he
>had
> > >>moved to the Marshland Fen/Wisbech area for work.
> > >>
> > >>I was wondering whether anyone had come across him in the 1871 census.
>He
> > >>would have been 21 years old at the time and probably an ag lab.
> > >>
> > >>Thank you
> > >>
> > >>Brenda
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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