Croughton Northampton England was a small village close to the boundaries of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire. Most residents were employed in agriculture. When times got difficult in the 1850s and 1860s a number of single young people and families emigrated either to industrial Lancashire or to Australia and New Zealand. Many families were related looking back in the records. I am interested in the patterns of migration. Did families follow each other. Families such as the Wakelin, Arnold, Merry, Gurden,Hawkins ,Allen and South families. I would like to share information on any of these families.