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In the 19th and 20th Century many Italians emigrated to England to seek a better way of life

Records show that some of the earliest Italians arrived in Sheffield as early as the 1850s. 

In 1801. At the time of the first census Sheffield had a population of 31,000. By 1851 it had grown to 135.000  

In the 1840's when the first Italians arrived in Sheffield, they appeared to integrate into the English  way of life  

Some family Surnames

Many Italians who came to Sheffield were skilled mosaic and terrazzo workers layers of polishers and marble fixers 

St Vincent's Parish tells the story of not just of a Sheffield parish but of similar parishes in the main towns and cities of this country at that period.

The burials of Catholics even in the 1860, still depended on the local authority providing a place in the municipal Cemeteries. 

The Ice Cream Trade provided a living for many Italian families from their poor and meagre lodgings they plied their trade

We have managed to put together a varied amount of photo's from the families of the West Bar area

The Italian families managed to rub along nicely but that was all about to change.

The First and Second World War 

In this section you will find various documents from Passports and Passenger Lists to Births and Deaths.