Migration in the industrial revolution

Measham to Coalville – the family of James Clamp.

(KN 2015 version)

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What does this evidence tell us?

Pigot’s Trade Directory of 1835

"MEASHAM is a village and parish, about three miles and a half S.S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the canal of which name passes through the village; and the parish is bounded on the west, north, and south, by the river Mease.

There are potteries in the neighbourhood, which give employment to some of the inhabitants, but the majority are employed in agriculture, and many farmers and cattle-farmers of great respectability are resident in the parish."

Pigot’s Trade Directory of 1835

1. What kind of jobs could you get in Measham in the 1820s or 1830s? Do you think they would have been highly paid?

2. Would a Carpenter have had a good living here?

3. Where would a Carpenter have been in demand?

The Clamp family lived in the village of Measham. What was it like in the 1830s?

By 1835 Coalville was a fast-growing new town with new buildings, lots of work and hundreds of people. In the 1820s there were only 2 houses where Coalville is now. By the 1830s there were hundreds because of the new coal mines. James Clamp, aged about 30, a carpenter, his wife Anne and four children moved from Measham to Club Row in Coalville between 1835 and 1838 hoping for a better life.

4. James Clamp and his wife moved because…………..

Wages and quality of life could be better in the towns. In 1841 in Derbyshire two families were compared - a man, a non working wife and three children – one a country labourer and one a miner. 5. See the evidence and decide who had the better life.

Labourer earnt 61p a week. Miner earnt 90p a week

2lbs of Meat at 5p 6lbs of Meat and Bacon at 26p

32lbs of Flour to bake 28p 19lbs of Flour and Oatmeal

Butter and cheese 4p Butter and cheese 4p

Sugar 2p Sugar 3p

Renting allotment for growing vegetables 1p

Buying potatoes and peas 3.5p

Beer .5p 24 pints Beer 4p

14 pints milk 3p 14 pints milk 3p

Coal 5p Coal 3p

Half a pound of soap 1.5p Luxuries: Tea Salt Coffee Mustard 8p

Extras 39p Extras 25p

Total spent 61p Total spent 90p

• What happened to James and his family after their move from Measham to Coalville between 1835-1838?

• “1841 Bankrupt - James Clamp, Carpenter of Coalville,

near Whitwick”• Why might this be? Can we make a

HYPOTHESIS based on evidence? IDEAS : Why did he fail ?

Not good enough ?

Which HYPOTHESIS idea would be the most realistic ?

What profitable job could he take up if he

had failed as a carpenter after being

in Coalville for about 4 or 5 years?

Coal miner!!

1861 Club Row residents – their birthplaces.

Leicestershire 52 people 70% localsBedfordshire 7 people Yorkshire 3 peopleDerbyshire 3 peopleNorthamptonshire 2 people 30% were migrantsNottinghamshire 2 peopleStaffordshire 1 personMiddlesex 1 personUnknowns 2 people

73 all together in 18 houses.

6. What conclusions can we draw from this evidence?

.

In 1861 there were 73 people in James Clamps’ little street of Club Row. Where had they MIGRATED from to come to Coalville to work?

???

Club Row residents in 1861.

The 52 Leicestershire born people came from:

Coalville born 31Whitwick born 10Bardon 2Leicester City 2Melton Mowbray 1Stanton under Bardon 1Thringstone 1Loughborough 1Peggs Green 1Hugglescote 1Swannington 1

7. What conclusions can we draw from this evidence? About 20% are migrants inside Leicestershire.

71% of the people came only a short distance in Leicestershire from small villages to Coalville. Where did they come from in the county?

1861 Club Row (these figures include little kiddies so they are not perfectly accurate)

31 born in Coalville ……………………..?%21 born elsewhere in Leicestershire….. ?%21 born outside Leicestershire………… ?%

What was the total percentage of the 73 people in the street who had MIGRATED from outside Coalville for work in the industries there?

What does this evidence tell us about Coalville in the 1860s?

Coalville born people 31 of 73

151 degrees out of 360

42%

Non Coalville born people 42 of 73

209 degrees out of 360

56%

Even the families of the Coalville born had only been there max 30 years as in the 1820s there were only 2 houses…. They had come from somewhere else too!

Conclusion: 56% of people in Coalville (from 1 sample)

MIGRATED from birthplaces elsewhere for work.

Even the families of the Coalville born people had only been there 30yrs and had come from elsewhere.

8. People moved to the new town of Coalville because:

•Mention Clamp & lack of opportunity in Measham

•Mention 2 houses in the 1820s and hundreds ten years later

•Mention better wages and food and standards of life –comparing the farmer and miner and figures.

•Mention the Coalmines providing work

•Mention the evidence and what it shows you.

EXCEEDING Criticise evidence, questioning, big pictureSECURE Analyse/compare/contrast.

Links GROWING Explaining … “because”

FOUNDATION Describing & listing

8. People moved to the new town of Coalville because:

•Mention Clamp & lack of opportunity in Measham

•Mention 2 houses in the 1820s and hundreds ten years later

•Mention better wages and food and standards of life

•Mention the Coalmines providing work

•Mention the evidence and what it shows you.

Which level did your neighbour get to?Explain why you think they got the level.Set a target for them to get to

the next level up!

Title: It happened in Ibstock too!

Learning target : why did people move?

1610

Ibstock 1610

Ibstock 1779

Look at the two maps – what has changed?

Ibstock 1835

Look and compare very carefully. Are there any differences between the two maps?

Ibstock 1779

Ibstock 1835 Ibstock 2008

Look and compare very carefully. Look on the 1830 map how big Ibstock is NOW, and on the 2008 map how small it was then. What has happened to the village? Where was

the “heart “ of the village?

This is the village in 1835, overlaying a modern Google Earth image. See how it has grown.

My conclusions from this evidence about what has happened to Ibstock over the past 2 hundred years are: ……….

I think this has happened because: ……….