People who worked on the canal boats

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Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 157 Send Message	Margaret	Report	5 Nov 2006 19:42
	Thankyou all for your replies. Margaret
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 432 Send Message	Her Indoors	Report	5 Nov 2006 19:36
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 432 Send Message	Yes, a contact here has recently introduced me to a collateral line of descendants who were boatmen, and they were all enumerated normally. I guess it was a common occupation, certainly in the early census era, and the enumerators didn't have any trouble.
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 1,287 Send Message	Lynda Carol	Report	5 Nov 2006 19:14
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 1,287 Send Message	My rellies worked on canal boats, I have always found them on the census. Their place of birth is important to know, as mine were all over the uk, it maybe that you can't find your's if they were 'on the move' at the time of the census
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 157 Send Message	Margaret	Report	5 Nov 2006 18:27
	nudge
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 157 Send Message	Margaret	Report	5 Nov 2006 18:01
	Is there such a thing as a list of census for the people who worked on the canal's? or would they have escaped the census. Regards Margaret