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Migration.

 

The brief sojourn in Salisbury of the curate's son, Andrew, and early arrivals in Dorset, have been dealt with above; other males born in Somerset were to be found as follows, viz: ­

Bristol,                             by or before 1810,       early residents         plasterer, sawyer, tailor, weaver.

London,                            by or before 1827,       early residents         tailor, law clerk, shoemaker.

Portsmouth/Southampton, by or before 1851,       early residents        merchant seamen.

Bradford, Yorks,                by or before 1864,       early residents         woollen workers, watch repairer, train driver.

South Wales,                    by or before 1865,       early residents         grocer, colliery workers, baker.

 

Most of those left in the Langford Budville area moved to nearby Wellington, where a substantial woollen cloth industry had been established, and other local employment opportunities existed.

 

The mass exodus was the product of hard times of the 19th century. In 1851 a motherless 14-year-old family member was in Taunton Gaol for 14 days for stealing 12 eggs, and between 1852 and 1900 eight adult members died in Wellington Union Workhouse, most at advanced ages. The Workhouse area covered Wellington and neighbouring parishes, and the inmate total at 1871 census was 160. In the 1988 telephone directory there were no Waygood subscribers in the parishes in which the curate's early descendants lived.

 

Early departures from Dorset to other parts of England and Wales were for:

Swansea,       by or before 1786, early residents pilots.

London,          by or before 1823, early residents domestic servant, engineer, brewer.

Sussex,         by or before 1865, early residents dairyman, farmer.

Devon            by or before 1871, early residents domestic servants.

 

Those who remained were mainly farmers or farm workers, in the Glanville Wootton, Minterne Magna and Cerne areas, from which the last seem to have departed by the late 1930s; only five Dorset Waygoods appear in the 1990 telephone directory for the County, these in the Gillingham, Blandford and Bournemouth areas.