Abstract
Our current knowledge of migration is limited by the sources used. Through the use of Quaker records, including ‘removal certificates’, it is possible to provide a new perspective on migration in the early I9th century. The Quaker interest in recording and managing their own affairs has produced records whose comprehensiveness is unparalleled. The use of the detailed Quaker ‘removal certificates’ enables the investigation of actual migrations in a period for too long overlooked. This study focuses on two local or Preparative Meetings to examine whether short-distance migration was the dominant form among Quakers, who were part of an extensive but closely knit Society. Comparisons with Friedlander and Roshier (I966), Pooley and Turnbull (I998) and Anderson (I97I) illustrate that Quakers were a special case with only IO per cent migrating less than 30 miles.
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