MWS
from Bham
Having recently been looking into 3 family trees with Italian ancestry, I noticed that, interestingly, the town of Sora cropped in all 3 of them.
A coincidence, I'm not sure. They all seemed to have come to Bham around the same time, late 1890s, early 1900s.
Searching the 1921 census for residents of Bham and Aston born in Italy returned 188 results, whilst searching for residents born in Sora returned 36 results. Meaning that almost one fifth at least of the Italian born residents of Bham/Aston came from one small town in the Frosinone province of Lazio. This also represented more than a quarter of 1921 population of England who listed their birth place as Sora (another 16 lived in the surrounding area).
What was the reason for this I wonder. Was it something particular to that town at that time? And why Birmingham?
A link to the Wikipedia entry for Sora...
en.wikipedia.org
A coincidence, I'm not sure. They all seemed to have come to Bham around the same time, late 1890s, early 1900s.
Searching the 1921 census for residents of Bham and Aston born in Italy returned 188 results, whilst searching for residents born in Sora returned 36 results. Meaning that almost one fifth at least of the Italian born residents of Bham/Aston came from one small town in the Frosinone province of Lazio. This also represented more than a quarter of 1921 population of England who listed their birth place as Sora (another 16 lived in the surrounding area).
What was the reason for this I wonder. Was it something particular to that town at that time? And why Birmingham?
A link to the Wikipedia entry for Sora...
