Tour of Lincolnshire, England
Traditional Windmill, Boston Tonight, I am reprising an ancestry themed tour for American guests with English ancestry.This post focuses on the Lincolnshire (eastern England) element of the trip. People movements are a strong theme here because this part of England was settled by both Scandinavians (Vikings) and Anglo-Saxons. For a while Lincolnshire was ruled by the Danes.Much later, in the 17th century there was well documented movements of early settlers to America. The place name Boston (of Anglo-Saxon origins) was transported to the New World.Video clip at foot of this post records a monument to a thwarted attempt by a putative group of emigrants to sail to America.Unfortunately, in the 17th century government permission was required to emigrate, not just a passport and plane ticket! The High incidence of churches in the tour is because is because these buildings were community centres as well as places of worship with some having origins in the first millennium and thus a l...