From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 20/04/2019 21:47, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   > In message , Graeme Wall   
   >  writes:   
   >> On 20/04/2019 18:47, Charles Ellson wrote:   
   > []   
   >>> Maybe more unlikely the further your origins are from SE England or   
   >>> anyone vaguely noble [sic]; the bike hadn't been invented in the 11th   
   >>> century.   
   >>   
   >> Horses existed and Shanks' pony for the poor. There was also coastal   
   >> and river shipping. People moved around more than is generally   
   >> realised. Harold got his army from London to Stamford Bridge and back   
   >> to Senlac Hill in fairly short order.   
   > []   
   > That was an army, though. Although there _are_ exceptions, I continue to   
   > be surprised how little people travelled in a lifetime; I'd say the   
   > _majority_ of folk didn't move more than five or at most ten miles from   
   > their birthplace. That's certainly the case for my ancestors. With   
   > exceptions, often associated with social changes: quite a lot of mine   
   > moved from Norfolk to Northumberland in 18xx, as mining took off.   
   > (Although most of them then settled and didn't move much again.) Even   
   > the coming of the railways didn't have the effect you might expect: I've   
   > found cases where lifetime movement wasn't great, well into the 20th   
   > century.   
      
   My wife's ancestry includes a family of vicars, they got around in the   
   18th and 19th centuries! Midlands, Wales, Scotland, West Country, and   
   that was just one of them.   
      
   Back to the point about descent from Bill the Bastard, while the general   
   population may not have got around much the aristocracy and their   
   retainers certainly did, bonking their way round the countryside,   
   spreading their genes far and wide.   
      
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