Migration to Canada:
The 1830s saw an attempt to ease rural poverty in England through assisting people to emigrate to Upper Canada. In 1839 Richard Bagg formerly of Whitchurch Canonicorum, wrote from Woodstock, Oxford Co., London District of Upper Canada to the parish asking them to pay for his wife Hannah and six children to join him. At that time they are living in the Union Workhouse in Bridport and chargeable to the parish. The parish records are not clear if Hannah and her family were allowed to join Richard. Does anyone know whathappened to them? In 1848 Job Rendell, his wife Mary and three sons left Whitchurch Canonicorum for Canada. They settled in Napanee, Lennox & Addington Co. Ontario. Job was a yeoman farmer and a man of some standing in the parish. Did they go to join friends or family there? Perhaps the most famous Dorset migrants are the five Tolpuddle Martyrs, who settled in London, Ontario.
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