From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-04-20 20:47:32 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   My grandchildren have grandparents born in England, Chile, France,   
   Syria and the USA. (Five!? Yes, I've been married twice). That's a   
   peculiarity of modern times, however, very unusual, even for the   
   wealthy, in earlier centuries. A very high proportion of my father's   
   known ancestors came from Devon.   
      
   >  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.   
      
      
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