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I've come across a couple of instances in my own family history where
families appear to have been moved from one part of a large landholder's holdings to another 10s of miles away and an instance, not in my own
descent, of two-way traffic. Is this an area which has been studied?
Is there even a specific term for it?

1. My Goddard family name seems to have originated in the late C13th in
the Cowick area of Snaith parish, WRY (various deeds in the Miller
collection) and a William Goddard witnessed documents in the Thrybergh & Dalton area, NE of Rotherham. In the 1379 subsidy roll the only WRY
entry is another William, single man ?son of the previous, in Whiston SE
of Rotherham. (There almost certainly were Goddards in Cowick but the township seems to have been entirely omitted from the surviving,
published roll.)

In the early 1420s there are Goddards in Sheffield (not surprising, it's
not far from Rotherham) and Emley, about 30 miles W. The connection
between the area E of Rotherham and Emley appears to be the Fitzilliam
family who were tenants-in-chief in the former and held the latter, from
the manor of Wakefield. The Goddards remained in Emley until the early
1600s but became established in adjacent areas tbe late C16th.

It seems likely that for some reason the Fitzwilliams move one of their tenants from one manor to another.

2. Knotton first appears as a family name in Barlow NW of Chesterfield
area of Derbyshire in the early C15th and is then mentioned in adjacent
areas of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshite towards Sheffield. It is also
the name of a village in Staffordshire. The connection there is the
Foljambe family. Their connections with the Peak District would have
extended as far W as Knutton and the early references as a family name
come from the Foljambe archives.

3. The Talbots were lords of Sheffield and Glossop. By the early C15th
there were Goddards in SHeffield and later in the century most if not
all the Dearnley family were in Glossop, having lost their eponymous
farm to the Whiteheads. In the C16th a Sir John Goddard, ?retired
follower of the Talbots, was lining near Glossop and some Dearnleys were mentioned in connection with the Talbots in Sheffield.
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