History Month Fact 24: Employment

History Month Fact 24: Employment

For those who could not find employment here in Thatcham in the late nineteenth-century, but who were young enough to risk trying to make a fresh start, there was always emigration. Thousands of people left England in the nineteenth-century to seek a new life in a new country, including many from Thatcham. A “goodbye supper” was held on the evening of Monday, 9th March, 1891, at the “Wheatsheaf” for “Three Colonists” about to leave Thatcham – Albert Hobbs (the landlady’s son), Albert Lavender and Robert heeler. They were emigrating to Manitoba, Canada.