Staffordshire and Worcestershire migration
Apart from a brief foray into Yorkshire (Rawmarsh, near Rotherham) all of the families I have been tracing remained fairly local in the West Midlands area of England. The Williams family moved from Worcestershire into Staffordshire and then more or less stayed there. When they did move, it was to follow work and move to different factories belonging to the same company. I did some resarch into the relative migration patterns of iron workers and farm labourers in Staffordshire for an Open University course (see below).
The Corns family remained in Wombourne, Staffordshire from 1700 to the present day. The Crump family lived in Wolverhampton from about 1830 to the present day. The Jones family lived in Pattingham, Staffordshire from the 1830s to the present day and the Haden family lived in the Heath Town and Wednesfield areas of Wolverhampton from the 1850s to the present day.
