1999
DOI: 10.1017/s0956793300001680
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English Emigration, Kinship and the Recruitment Process: Migration from Melbourn in Cambridgeshire to Melbourne in Victoria in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Abstract: There are still comparatively few investigations which look, in detail, at who the rural English emigrants of the nineteenth century were, the villages and communities they came from, and the rural kinship and recruitment networks which supported their decision. Deficiencies in the published statistical returns, and the fact that good historical data about the English is mainly concerned with the first half of the nineteenth century, have not helped further emigration research. This has led to the situation wh… Show more

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“…There was a total of 181 known emigrants to various countries during the late 1830s to 1866. 8 There must have also been much net loss by migration to other parts of the country after 1851, as population peaked in that year.…”
Section: Melbourn -A Case Study Of An Open Villagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…There was a total of 181 known emigrants to various countries during the late 1830s to 1866. 8 There must have also been much net loss by migration to other parts of the country after 1851, as population peaked in that year.…”
Section: Melbourn -A Case Study Of An Open Villagementioning
confidence: 99%