Genealogy Chat

I do and one of the families is based in Liverpool/Birkenhead.

I have a great Great Grandfather mising from the 1881 and 1891 census and I was wondering where he was.

This was a sad period in their life. He married in 1885, had a daughter in 1887. His wife died in 1888 and he died in 1896. His daughter, my Great Grandmother was living with her grandparents in 1891 and was listed as a servant aged 15 in 1901.

Do you know anything about this type of work? Are there any records kept about them?

Thanks

Fi

http://www.parishregister.com/aboutstp.html

http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/water.htm

http://www.bardaglea.org.uk/docklands/6-water-lightermen.html

http://www.watermenshall.org/

Different areas geographically, Fi, but all interesting about watermen.

hi there,
I have quite a few watermen in my family tree. They were based up the River Trent at Burton Stather and all over. They owned several ships and i have been in touch with a chap whos father and grandfather built them. You can go on a website that has two working Keels and Sloops and you can book to have a trip on them. I will find the website out and you can have a look. Also they do hold some records, but you do have to fish about a bit. If they died on the vessels then you can find records for that. They would have travelled all over and there are websites that hold records of ships in the harbour and th people on it. I will see if i still have that site on my bookmarks,as this may have been on my last laptop, so bear with me and i will see what i can do.

here are a few to try
www.humberships.org
www.mightyseas.co.uk
www.boatmen.org.uk (you can search by name of person)
www.theshipslist.com

http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Occupations/
CANAL-PEOPLE.html

and

John Roberts' Waterway Index
Another possible source is the Waterway Index run by:-

Mr John Roberts
52 St Andrews Road
Sutton Coalfield
West Midlands
B75 6UH

The following information was kindly supplied by John Roberts.


THE WATERWAY INDEX was started in 1979 by the late Mrs Ethel Bingham who was unable to locate the baptism of her Great Grandfather Joseph Millard born in 1841 in London, but, it appears not registered.

It now contains about 10,000 slips which have references to persons who had (or have) connections with the canals and navigable rivers in the United Kingdom ie those with occupations given in records as boatman, waterman, flatman, boatbuilder, lock-keeper, toll-collector, canal or river company clerk, canal agent, boat owner, navigator (navvies), wharf inger etc, etc


may help

Rose x

My 2xgrt grandfather is listed as a lighterman in Fleetwood in 1881 but cant find him after that. Caz