Well it didn't take long for my Dorset family to take me further afield. A few of Mary Rideout's children stayed in the village of Ashmore in Dorset but it was a small place and there were a lot of offspring. Soon many of them left the village and, in many cases, the county. As I filled in the various added members to the next generation born to Mary's children, they seemed to move frequently. Some of them having children born along the way as they moved from place to place. That meant access to digital images of baptisms varied. I'm not sure if that's because the babies weren't baptized or just that the big genealogy companies haven't come to an agreement with the holders of the records.
In the case of one Rideout brother, Charles, his children were born in Herefordshire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, then back to Yorkshire, followed up by two born in Staffordshire. In different towns or villages in the last county, of course. His sister, Sylvia Raymond, confined the births of her children to Hampshire but had two children in Winchester, before moving to Headbourne Worthy where she had two children, then moved to Ropley where she had another two.
Perhaps all this movement when they were young made immigration an easier step to take for the next generation of the family. I know that some of my Rideout line ended up in Australia. I wonder if they were offspring of Charles or Sylvia.
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