In 1836 William and Mary Gill with their nine children were
sent from the Suffolk village of Felsham to work for a landowner and
industrialist in Lancashire. The family
were part of a national migration scheme that arranged for families who were
receiving poor relief, to move to the north where there was a labour shortage
in the cotton mills and coal mining industry. Families with a large number of
children were particularly attractive to the northern industrialists who
regarded them as a good investment....
...... Read more about the members of this poor Felsham family who made new lives in industrial Lancashire........
