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The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

8 The Midland Vales

8 The Midland Vales

1 Alan Everitt, The Pattern of Rural Dissent: the Nineteenth Century, Leicester, 1972

2 Ibid., p.20

3 E. H. Hunt, ‘Labour Productivity in English Agriculture, 1850–1914’, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 20 (1967), pp.280–92

4 Ibid., p.286

5 Ibid., p.288

6 VCH Warwickshire, II (1908), p.137

7 H. Rider Haggard, Rural England, 2 vols, London, 1902, II, p.101

8 VCH Warwickshire, VI (1951), pp.125–26; Imp. Gaz., sub Long Itchington

9 Hitchcox's is one of the signatures on a letter to the N.Z. Immigration authorities, complaining of poor food on the HalcioneIM 5/4.

10 LUC, 15 November 1873, p.5

11 LUC, 26 December 1874, p.3. (The Chronicle mentions that Hitchcox is from Long Itchington.)

12 VCH Warwickshire, VI (1951), pp.241–42

13 LUC, 26 September 1874, p.5

14 LUC, 7 November 1874, p.7

15 Imp. Gaz., sub. Marton, Warwickshire

16 Imp. Gaz., sub. Bishop's Itchington

17 VCH Warwickshire, V, pp.121–24

18 Imp. Gaz., sub. Fenny Compton

19 Imp. Gaz., sub. Priors Hardwick

20 Esp. M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, Cambridge, 1961; A. W. Ashby, ‘One Hundred Years of Poor Law Administration in a Warwickshire Village’, in Paul Vinogradoff, ed., Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, III, Oxford, 1912.

21 W. G. Miller & K. A. Carrdus, The Red orse of Tysoe, Leamington, 1965

page 371

22 Ashby, Joseph Asbby, p.55

23 Ibid., pp.266–68

24 Ibid., p.271

25 Ibid., p.284

26 Ibid., pp.46–53, 279–86

27 Ashby, ‘poor Law Administration in a Warwickshire Village’, p.35

28 Ashby, Joseph Ashby, p.115

29 Ibid., pp.59–62

30 LUC, 5 July 1873, p.8

31 LUC, 9 August 1873, p.7

32 LUC, 15 November 1873, p.8

33 LUC, 20 December 1873, p.3

34 English Labourer, 4 December 1875, pp.14–15

35 Ashby, Joseph Ashby, p.89

36 Imp. Gaz., sub. Oxhill, Warwickshire

37 Our account of this part of Berkshire is based on: John Orr, Agriculture in Berkshire, Oxford, 1918, pp.1–16; L. D. Stamp, ed., The Land of Britain: The Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, 9 vols., London, 1936–1946, VIII, pp.10–15, 71–72, 80–83, 104–6; VCH, Berkshire, IV (1924)

38 Orr, Agriculture in Berkshire, p.15

39 Imp. Gaz., sub. Stanford in the Vale; VCH Berkshire, IV (1924), pp.478–79

40 PPGB 1868–69, 13, p.627

41 Oxford Mail, 28 February 1974

42 Ibid., and letter from Margaret Warman, Milton, near Abingdon, 31 March 1974.

43 Identified from letter, printed LUC, 5 December 1874, p.3

44 LUC, 27 December 1873, p.7

45 CNZ, IV, pp.479, 557

46 LUC, 5 December 1873, p.3

47 Ibid

48 LUC, 18 April 1874, p.5

49 LUC, 21 November 1874, p.6

50 LUC, 2 January 1875, p.3

51 LUC, 25 April 1874, p.6

52 Ibid.; Bedfordshire Mercury, 25 April 1874

53 VCH Bedfordshire, III (1912), p.326; Percival Serle, Dictionary of Australian Biography, 2 vols., Sydney, 1949, p.159–60

54 Imp. Gaz., sub. Cardington; VCH Bedfordshire, III (1912), pp.233–35

55 N. L. Tranter, ‘Population and Social Structure in a Bedfordshire Parish: The Cardington Listing of Inhabitants, 1782’, in Population Studies, 21 (1967), pp.261–82; N. L. Tranter, ‘The Social Structure of a Bedfordshire Parish in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Cardington Census Enumerators' Books, 1851’, in International Review of Social History, 18 (1973), Part I, pp.90–105

56 LUC, 25 April 1874, p.6

57 LUC, 13 June 1874, p.6. One of the Lidlington families has been identified as that of Charles Welch, 38, farm labourer, with a wife and six children.

58 LUC, 24 July 1875, p.3

59 Imp. Gaz., sub. Lidlington

60 VCH Bedfordshire, III (1912), p.136

61 LUC, 25 April 1874, p.6; Bedfordshire Mercury, 25 April 1874

62 Bedfordshire Mercury, 2 May 1874

63 Ibid

64 English Labourer, 13 November 1875, p.6