Have you stayed put?

My paternal grandmother left Ireland for England in the late 19th C, and my grandfather was from Hampshire, where his father had moved from Glasgow. My mother’s family, however, was fairly static in Lancashire until my mother moved to go to university in Liverpool. Both my parents lived in France for a time.

My husband came to England from Australia. His parents had moved there from London and France.

I was brought up in Wirral, moved to London for university, stayed in London for a while, moved to Edinburgh, then back to the NW for a particular job, not far from Wirral again. I still live in the area, though I wanted to live in the south and feel vaguely ashamed to be living so close to where I was born! Moving about shows a sense of curiosity and adventure. I made sure my children moved, and now I have one son in London and one in south Bucks.

My daughter in law’s mother’s family is Polish and she (DIL’s mother) was the first child of the family to be born in England, in 1949.

I am constantly surprised by how many people on these boards seem to have family round the corner. It must be useful, I suppose, but I’m still convinced that moving about is a good thing, and I’m glad my children did. I would always encourage it.

Yes we've stayed put only live two miles from where I was born have had various houses in different areas over the years but still managed to stay in the area we were born. Where we live there's a lot of young families doing the same still living only streets away from parents. Washington/ gateshead area.

I’ve moved around a bit, however, my Mum who is 89 still lives in the same road she has always lived in, in the house opposite where she was born !

I did move away in my late teens, married, but then moved back and have stayed. Both my brother and sister have stayed put, not moving from the town they were born in.

I’ve moved 25 miles across London from East to North West. I went to uni after I was married so have literally never lived anywhere other than London and have never wanted to.

In my late teens I moved to London then moved around for about 10 years but came back to my home town when my son was born.

I live 2 miles from where I and my father were born and wed. My husband was born at the same hospital as I, 2 years prior. My in laws parents were married in the same church we were and both were born and raised within 5 miles of my father. My mother was an incomer from Wales in the run up to war. My and my husbands siblings have moved away and one of my children has moved up North the other has stayed put. We have to keep the graves tended somehow!!

I was born in Lancashire, I know several previous generations where born/lived within 10 miles. 17 years ago we moved to Nottinghamshire, no particular reason, just wanted a change of scenery. I have 3 children, one is 7 miles away from us, one in Rugby and the other is just starting out family life with his first son around 8 miles away from where I was born.

Just waiting now until we move to North East Scotland, hopefully later this year.

I've not moved far but my family generally moved for work following a common population move. My paternal family moved from the highlands of Scotland to near Glasgow in the nineteenth century. My maternal family moved from Yorkshire to Lancashire around the same time.
My parents met in WW11 and moved to London for promotion, after I was born. I've lived in south London ever since.

Anything but settled! My grandmother moved from Glasgow to Sunderland; my parents moved from there to Birmingham; I’ve lived in Dublin (via several places including Brussels) with my N. Irish husband for 40+ years. One son married an American he met in Germany and they are currently in the Middle East while another son’s wife is Brazilian and they live in Malta. International or what? (Though we still have three others in Dublin....)

I'm Devonshire born and bred. Born in Plymouth, raised in Torquay and then moved gradually eastwards, living in Newton Abbot and various surrounding villages at times.
My father's family are Devonians back as far as I can trace.
But my mother's family moved here from London and I don't have enough details to trace her ancestors.

Both my sisters live close to where we were brought up south of London, but I went away at 18 and never returned. I've lived in eight different counties.

I was born in Liverpool.My grandparents were from Lancashire,Liverpool and Devon.My husband is from West Wales.We have moved to several different areas over the years due to work.We ended up in Shropshire 30 years ago and think this is where we will stay even though the children have moved away now.

Both Maternal & Paternal Grandparents were from Lancashire although they moved around within the County. My Mum still lives in the small Yorkshire Village that she was born in (close to Yorks/Lancs County Boundary), 3 different houses.

I am Yorkshire born & bred, moved to Lancashire in my 30s, then Middlesex (Surrey) for 22 years, Somerset for just over 3 years, now in Devon where DD moved to nearly 18 years ago. This is my final move, been here 4 years & love it

I was born in Ireland, moved to England, married an Englishman and moved about a bit, then moved to the NE of Scotland. I have a very Scottish surname (the same as my mother’s maiden name!) and many ancestors are from Scotland, as are my husband’s and because they are a small clan he can trace his ancestors back to the fourteenth century. So I suppose you could say we have ended up where we started, even though hundreds of years in between!
I am the only one of my generation to have left Ireland.

When doing my family tree I discovered that my maternal grandparents had moved from Somerset to London when they married. All their children were born in the Peckham area of London. I think this must have been unusual in Victorian times.

My paternal GMs family lived in the the Highlands but were moved out of their land in the Clearances to the central belt of Scotland. GF lived in same county after being 2nd Boer War, WW1. I know nothing about maternal GPs, but DM lived in another county before marriage and moving to live with DF in same county where the lived out their lives. I moved south of England when in 20s, but moved back in the 70s when children had arrived as parents were needing a bit TLC and also couldn't get daughter into school until 6 years due to overcrowding. Somethings never change!

I've been looking at my Mum's family line - all from Cheshire, and not only that, all from the same town and even, on a lot of occasions, from the same street!!! They were salt workers and a small town was constructed in order to house the workers and their families. I must say it isn't a very interesting line to follow - no exotic backgrounds or mysterious family histories. I'm waiting for my DNA results to come back - see if that yields any surprises from my really ancient ancestors.

I was born and raised in Birmingham. Still here. Never moved. My parents were from Southern Ireland. They came here for work.

My parents are both Welsh, I was born in Cheshire and lived there for my first 30 years.

In 1991 I met my husband and moved to his small home town in Greater Manchester. Despite it not being that far from where I originated and the town having a fairly unusual name (there is a poster on here who has it as part of her username but I don't think she lives here) I had literally never heard of the place.

Fast forward a few years and I am tracing my family tree - my maternal grandmothers parents lived, worked and were married within walking distance of where I now reside. This still saddens me as my grandmother always said we had relatives in the Manchester area and would have loved someone to find out but it was a much bigger undertaking in those days and she was long gone before some of my family and I started to trace our roots.

I was born in Sheffield, moved to London then back to Yorkshire. When I got married I moved to Glasgow and then London. From London we went to Holland for 18 years then came back to the East Midlands. Within each area I also moved multiple times. I have loved my varied life but sometimes envy those people who have stayed in one place and have their family all around them.

My parents owned a small farm in rural Lancashire, and my husband to be lived about 15 miles away.

When we married we decided to look for a house half way between the two sets of parents, and we have lived here all our married life.

Born in Birmingham and lived there into my 40s. Then moved to Lancashire, where I'm staying. DH is a southerner who has slowly but surely moved north. We love Lancashire.

I was born in Portsmouth as dad was in the RN. We then moved to Old Trafford in the late 50’s where my sister was born.
Married a local boy (gosh we were so young to be married looking back!) and we brought up our family in Stretford.
9 years ago we moved into Urmston which is only 5 miles away. The only thing we’ve done which is a bit more adventurous was bought a small apartment in Malaga 15 years ago and we now split our time between our two (small) places which is wonderful.

Born in Liverpool suburbs of Welsh speaking parents, consequently, I am a Welsh speaking Scouser. I have lived in a number of countries but settled here in Conwy, but still regard myself as a Welsh speaking Scouser. "You can take the girl out of Liverpool, but not Liverpool out of the girl".