Patterns of migration of apprentices into Aberdeen and Inverness during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Abstract

The apprenticeship records of Aberdeen and Inverness provide details of patterns of migration into two Scottish regional centres during the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The general characteristics of apprenticeship migration into these two towns are discussed. Poisson regression analysis is used to determine the extent to which there were distinct differences in levels of migration at a parish level within their hinterlands and to explain these differences in terms of variables such as population, distance, nearness to other urban centres and regional economic patterns.