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Siegbert The Lame KING OF COLOGNE (190-3)

MURDERED BY HIS SON

Childerbert KING OF COLOGNE (190-2)

LIVING 450

John HIETT

Acquired Wootton estates in 1545 from Edward Carne.  his son, Thoams, sold some of the estate to Richard Walton in 1566 through retaining a life interest which he subesquently sold to Andrew Dyer. (VHC) not known if there is a connection between Thomas Hyett and Richard. (2)

Peasants generally needed to walk everywhere.

Re: Walking distance
Peasants generally needed to walk everywhere.

According to prof Barbara Hanawalt in her book The ties that bound (Peasant families in medieval England) peasant women could walk up to 70km, men slightly less, to their destinations.

Hanawalt does not suggest why/where people were going; men in most cases were involved with working on land or relating local trades, whereas women if not married or having been widowed sometimes were forced to search for their destinies further afield.

Walking was the main method of transport for a long time for the average peasant.
In the early middle ages people were not allowed to move from one place to another. Those who had been found to be vagrant were given vagrant passes that to allowed [forced] them to return to their original parishes (1662 Act, see also Vagrancy Act 1822 and Workhouse Act 1834).

There were exceptions, named preachers were to spread the word over several counties; when the upper layer of the society were free to move as they wished using the newly established coach and horses system.
My neighbour some years back still remembered how people each morning walked some 12-13 miles to our local workhouse in the early 1900s, just to return back to the city each evening.

Even own primary school was some 4 miles walk away - there were few cars or buses then.
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best regards Elle

---In somersetfamilyhistory@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
G'day Helen

Horses were expensive to own and keep, especially when travelling and having to pay a livery stable for their overnight keep. Stagecoaches with their limited space, and frequent changes of horses were also expensive, and would still require overnight accommodation for long distances. It was the advent first of the canal boat, and then the railway that made public transport for the masses financially viable.

A horse and cart with it's load would also only be travelling at walking speed, usually with a person walking beside the horse, holding its reins.

The vast majority of people, unless they were well off, would have walked.

David ArmstrongMaylands,Western Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Hickman
To: somersetfamilyhistory@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [somersetfamilyhistory] Walking Distance (Was: GOODLAND)

David, I agree wholeheartedly about your comments but have we also forgotten about the horse and cart , stagecoach or carriage?

Regards, Helen

And not just peasants. In 1684/5, John Whiting the Quaker was summonsed to appear the following day at the assizes at Taunton, he then being at his house at Nailsea. Being unable to assure that a borrowed horse could be returned in the event of his detention, he set out on foot, rested a little at Bridgewater and arrived in Taunton before night, "quite weary". This he said was the hardest day's journey he had made on foot - and I'm not surprised. The distance seems to be little short of 40 miles, though Whiting estimated it as 30.Ian

(50-9) KUNZA

SISTER OF BAZIN, BISHOP OF TREVES

(50-9) KUNZA

SISTER OF BAZIN, BISHOP OF TREVES

Peter DE MAULEY

Line in Record @I157@ (RIN 365365) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
_PRIMARY Y

Peter DE MAULEY

Line in Record @I157@ (RIN 365365) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
_PRIMARY Y

Orange SMITH

I put this here as a keeper, not a verified line, in fact, may better be the son of an Orage SMITH b. 1801 that may be the better choice of a son of Orange here.  This just needs to be sorted out, surely such a name as Orange has specific ties, such an unusual name.  Naming pattern often was eldest son after fathers father, next after mothers father and 3rd after the father.  Larry Anderson

1860 census he was 48

Farmington, IA 1860 Census, Pleasant Grove, Coles Co, HH 2501 (Post Office Farmington)
SMITH, Orange, 48 M, Farmer, 1800, PA
Larinda, 46, F, PA
Isaac O., 16, Farm Lab, IL, Attends School

1850 in IL b. PA
SMITH, Orange, 37 M, Farmer, 500 PA
Lorinda, 36, F, PA
Barrillin (?) 15, M, PA, Attending School
Louisa J, 11, F, IL, Attending School
Isaac O., 6, M, IL
Sylvester H., 2, M, IL
Bates, Rachel, 19 F, NY
Bates, Sally, 11, F, NY
Case, Jeremiah, 27, M, Farmer, NY
Haines, Patrick J, 24, M, Laborer, Ireland

Felixa Galdio MALCE

Parish records give birth as 7 PM.

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