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Well done K, I just had a look and that census is fascinating and I'm pretty sure you are right. The boat was called 'Seven Brothers'

Boat people had a hard life. I knew one couple well and she talked of unloading 50 tons of coal from their boat by hand, they carried coal from the midlands to London, and both their sets of parents were boat people with horse drawn boats.

Hello Linda......

This is the only THOMAS FISHWICK who fits the bill

1861 census

The Seven Brothers. Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Wigan

Thomas Fishwick/head/age 26/ Master / born Lathom . Lancashire

Catherine Fishwick / wife / age 22 / born Crosby, Lancs

Jane Fishwick / daughter / age 6 / born Liverpool
Catherine Fishwick / daughter / age 5/ born Liverpool
Agnes Fishwick / daughter / age 2 / born Liverpool

on the 1871 census the family is living at

11 Court 2 Bostock Street Liverpool

Thomas / head / Porter labourer / born Lathom
Catherine / wife / born Crosby
Agnes / daughter / age 12 / born Liverpool
EMILY / daughter / age 8 / born Liverpool
Thomas / son / age 2 / born Liverpool

I feel quite certain, that Emily is in fact Emma.

Emma was of course was married in 1881, young Thomas is a 12 year old in The Industrial School at Everton.......I willtry to trace the other children if you wish.......

I think these are the death entries for Mum and Dad

Thomas Fishwick / age 45 / Dec 1877 / Wigan / vol 8c page 2

Catherine Fishwick / age 55 / Dec 1894 / Wigan/ vol 8c page 76

Hope this helps

Jean

Just for interest is this Emma and her husband in 1881 at Wigan:
Omer Lowe
Age: 22
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Emma
Gender: Male
Where born: Aspull, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Wigan
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address: Boat "Ralph"
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status: View Image
Occupation: Boatman

Registration district: Wigan
Sub-registration district: Wigan
ED, institution, or vessel: 54
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Emma Lowe 18
Omer Lowe 22

Boat people often married each other and then worked the boat as a team. I looked at all the other boats in Wigan but her father wasn't there.

I think I have found them pre Emma's birth It's the first completely handwritten record I have ever seen - taken on board ships plying on the Leeds Liverpool Canal!!

1861

Name: Thomas Fishwick
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Master
Spouse's Name: Catherine
Gender: Male
Where born: Lathom, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Wigan
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View Image

Registration district: Wigan
Sub-registration district: Wigan
ED, institution, or vessel: 33
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 14
Household Members: Name Age
Agnes Fishwick 2
Catherine Fishwick 22 b Crosby
Catherine Fishwick 4 b Liverpool
Jane Fishwick 6 b Liverpool
Thomas Fishwick 26 b Lathom

Name of vessell - Seven Brothers

Linda do you have Emma's birth cert? This could be her, you could always ask for a reference check of father's name and if wrong they would only charge £3 instead of £7.
If her father was a canal boatman and worked the Leeds Liverpool Canal she might even have been born on his boat. I love the canals and their history, we have a canal boat, and I have met many 'boat people' (sadly nearly all gone now) and I know that women did give birth in the tiny back cabin. There are 2 Boat Musems, Ellesmere Port and Stoke Bruerne both have good web sites, just google for them.

Emma Fishwick
Year of Registration: 1862
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Wigan
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 57

I'll keep looking for Thomas

Jennifer

I coudln't see them in the census, and the only birth I could see list her as born Wigan and if correct would give her mother's name and maiden name


Births Jun 1862 (>99%)
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FISHWICK Emma Wigan 8c 57

Could this be them in 1871? Not sure about birth place


Emma Fishwick
Age: 8
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Thomas
Mother's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Female
Where born: Tottenham, Durham, England

Civil Parish: Shipley
Ecclesiastical parish: Shipley
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England





Registration district: Bradford
Sub-registration district: Shipley
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 146
Household Members: Name Age
Elizabeth Fishwick 51
Emma Fishwick 8
Mary Elizabeth Fishwick 18
Thomas Fishwick 54
Thomas Fishwick 15
Henry Keighley 41




Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 4498; Folio: 48; Page: 26; GSU roll: 847128.

I am trying to find out any information about a Thomas Fishwick. I know his daughter Emma was born in 1862 in St Helens and on her marriage certificate to Omar Lowe he is down as a Boatman.