Have you stayed put?

I live in South Yorkshire, about 40 miles from where I was born.

Have lived in different parts of the UK and internationally. DH was RAF and I've worked in the UAE.

DH's family from Sussex on both sides from way back and didn't move much until his Dad joined the RAF 1931-1968. They moved all over UK and the world.

My parents were from Yorkshire and Scotland. Paternal GP's were Scottish from fairly close to each other. Maternal GP French, Irish American and Yorkshire :-)

Both girls born in Yorkshire but all over with us.

DD1 as an adult - first home in Cambridgeshire, Sheffield, New Zealand for nearly 8 years, now Derbyshire so about an hour away.

DD2 as an adult - Orkney, Dublin, Sottish Boarders now about a 5 mins away from us. She still travels a great deal both for work and pleasure.

GD now in Derbyshire but born in Christchurch Women's Hospital, New Zealand March 2011 while the earth was still moving. Then they moved to Waiheke before coming back to UK so who knows how far she will travel.

My brothers haven't moved out of the town we was born in, my sister has moved around the UK a bit and now also lives 5 mins from us.

Never really thought about it until this post, it's been really interesting reading this thread and having to think about it. Thanks for starting it. Have a good day all.

What a fascinating thread! I wonder if this is feature of life in the last couple of centuries, or did people always move
around?
I suppose i’m an “extreme mover” - born and raised in Germany in a German family. Married a British Army officer and moved to England, then Germany etc etc until
he left the Army. We had bought a house in Yorkshire, and to this it is where I feel most at home.
Mind you, didn’t stay there either! Following divorce, I moved to Wales and am now in France but hoping to return to lovely Richmond as soon as possible.
Not bad for a Taurus who is happiest in her garden or surrounded by friends and family.

p.s. We have moved 7 times in our 43 year marriage! From Essex to Scotland and back to London & Surrey!!

I transcribe for FreeBMD and have also researched both sides of our family

My mother's family lived in London for generations and had 4 generations at the same address in the Late 1800s. They were bombed out in WW2 and then moved out to Essex where most of them still live.

My father's family were immigrants from Amsterdam in the 1700's and mostly lived close together in London. The family they left in Holland were murdered in the concentration camps.

Mum was one of 6 children and Dad one of eight, on the whole families were much bigger years ago.

DH's family have moved from Suffolk to London and then to Essex. His family have the most common name in England which I thought would hamper me in researching his side of the family tree but it helped that the same unusual middle name was used for each oldest son.
Now DD lives 30min drive from us and DS is just around the corner.

I have returned close to my birthplace having lived all over the UK. I left at 18 seeking something different and less boring and returned in my 40's realising it was actually quite nice. Planning to be on the move again in the next few years. Not 'escaping to the country', I've done all that, but a nice interesting town with plenty of facilities and interesting events close by.

My ancestors all seem to have been from Leicestershire except for a few from Lincolnshire. I live in Leicester and my current house is within walking distance of the other 3 houses where I have lived. One daughter and family also in Leicester, the other far away in the USA.

I forgot to say that I now live in Devon and so does my son and his children, but my daughter lived in Canada for about 14 years and has now returned to England and lives near Milton Keyes.

Both my parents were born in 1911 from large working class families with six siblings each. My parents were the only ones to move away from home to work and they wouldn’t have met if they hadn’t. All their siblings stayed in the area where they were born. Because my father was in the police force we moved around a lot as he moved up the ranks, albeit in the same county. My DH and I have moved around a lot through his work; apart from three years in the army my brother has stayed in the county of his birth. My DH’s one sister lives within a few miles of her birthplace but his other sister moved to Canada for thirty years and has just moved back. Both our sons are married and live within four miles of us.

When I was a child and young adult I hated having to move house with my parents but each time I made friends with whom I have maintained important friendships and more importantly I wouldn’t have met my DH if my father hadn’t been promoted for the seventh time necessitating another house move. I did envy my one friend who had three brothers and two sisters who all stayed in the town where they were born, consequently she knew so many people and the crematorium had standing room only when she was cremated in October 2017. Her brother bought the house they all lived in when his mother died and still lives there.

So there are pros and cons to moving around but I am happy with the way my life has turned out. My DH and I often talk about the various differences that could have happened in our lives meaning we would have never met.

I was born in Swindon but moved with my family to South Africa. At 21 I returned to England and got a job in London, There I met a hansom young Indian man from Trinidad and we got married, We were happily together for 54 years until he passed away. We had 2 children who are married to English men and they have 4 children between them. The eldest has an Irish girlfriend.

I have lived my life within two neighboring postcodes!

I have traced my ancestors and found they moved around a lot more than I have. My maternal grandmother was born in Cumberland and then the family moved to Durham (the county). My grandmother moved to the Wirral as did one of her sisters, where they married and lived all their lives, whilst the remaining 4 sisters and brother stayed in the small village they had moved to from Cumberland. I was born on the Wirral and now live 10 miles from where I was born having only ever lived on the Wirral.

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".

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 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 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.