Abstract
Michael Anderson, in his study of families in the past, refers to what he sees as the myth of ‘the stable community in which most of the population grew up and grew old together’. The hypothesis of this paper is that there was a core of older inhabitants in the Kent rural village of Aldington in the middle of the I9th century who had lived all or most of their lives there. This article therefore sets out to establish the extent of residential continuity in Aldington by looking at those inhabitants who were aged 50 or over at the time of the I85I census by using the I84I and I85I census enumerators’ books, parish registers and other local records. Whilst a majority, and a substantial majority at that, of parishioners did move on, a significant minority remained in the one parish throughout their lives.
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