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canal boat people
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Teresa | Report | 26 Apr 2007 20:27 |
I am looking for any contacts with people who had relations who worked on the boats, during the industrial revolution. I have quite a lot of info that i am happy to share with other people trying to find there ancesters. Or If you have anything to add to my collection of boat families, I would be pleased to here from you. I am a direct decendent to the canal people from the very start of the canal age. most of therse families are related in one way or another., therefore I must have quite a few relations that i dont know. it would be nice to find a few. From Teresa |
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DIZZI | Report | 26 Apr 2007 20:32 |
hi Lock keepers . barge owners |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 26 Apr 2007 20:36 |
I researched a family who had several watermen on the Thames in the 1880's. Several families intermarried and served their apprenticeships under each other Dee x |
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Rambling | Report | 26 Apr 2007 21:49 |
Dee...did you bu any chance come across any Fishlocks? Lightermen/watermen on the Thames (esp around Chiswick/Brentford area. Rose xxx |
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Mommylonglegs | Report | 26 Apr 2007 22:18 |
Hi, saw this thread earlier. I too had Watermen in my family. My great GG Grandfather and all his children and ancestors were Watermen on the Thames, mainly in Greenwich. I would love to find out more about them. Jenny. |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 27 Apr 2007 07:35 |
Hi Rose, I didn't come across that name, sorry ;-)) Jenny, what names were you looking for? Dee x |
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*Sharm | Report | 27 Apr 2007 07:58 |
Hi Teresa, I have several boatmen in my family on dads side they were boatbuilders (not in this contry) and on mums side they lived and worked the canals in Yorkshire and Lancashire. I too would love to know more about them sadly one of my ggreatgrandfathers is nowhere to be found on the census im now thinking the whole family lived on the boats, moved around and evaded enumeration. what names are you looking for and in what part of the country? Maybe we could help each other. Scarlett. |
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Beryl | Report | 27 Apr 2007 08:30 |
Hi Teresa Many of my paternal ancestors worked on the barges on the Leeds/Liverpool canal. Some were originally from the Burscough area of Lancashire - their names were Aspinall, Spencer and Hilton. from Beryl |
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nell | Report | 5 Apr 2011 14:39 |
Hello. I am trying to find out anything about my Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Grandad and Grandmother - Miles and Emma BERRY they were lock keepers in Warwickshire (Offchurch I think) does anybody know where I can get this confirmed _ I can't find any records on here for them - I have Miles born in app 1799 and Emma (nee Gender) born app 1800 - they had a daughter called Hester or Ester born pp 1825 I can't find any records for her other than a sons birth. Any information will be greatly appreciated. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 5 Apr 2011 14:58 |
My wife's great great grandparents were both from canal boat families. His family carried china clay up from the Severn along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal . Her family worked from the opposite direction carrying ironstone along the Caldon Canal and thence into the Black Country. |
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RStar | Report | 10 Apr 2011 19:16 |
I have Wray's and Sladen's who were boat people. Jet who used to post on here had a website dedicated to the boat people genealogy. Im still in touch with her if you want me to get a message across. |
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DIZZI | Report | 11 Apr 2011 09:12 |
I HAVE BACK IN THE 1750- 1800 OXFORD |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 11 Apr 2011 10:44 |
Just in case Nell does not come back on here have sent a PM re Probate for Miles Berry, Lock keeper |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 11 Apr 2011 11:08 |
Nell someone has Miles in a public tree on Ancestry. |
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Peter | Report | 9 Feb 2013 07:38 |
Looking for any Wilkinson family how were boat people from Acton Cheshire |
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LadyScozz | Report | 9 Feb 2013 08:35 |
I also have canal boat people, mine are from Falkirk in Scotland |
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FootieAngel | Report | 9 Feb 2013 08:39 |
My husband has boat ppl but hes no longer around they originated in Mongomery in Wales and worked the Birmingham and Black Country canals they settled in West Bromwich The main lot were Morris Im pretty sure the mother was a Jennings. I havent looked at them for years. Theres a museum in Northampton I never got around to visiting x |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 9 Feb 2013 09:35 |
Peter - It's probably best if you used the 'Search All Tree' function on this site, then you can contact anyone who has the same names in their tree as yourself. |
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JustJohn | Report | 9 Feb 2013 09:51 |
Canal people and those who carried to canals in West Midlands crop up a bit on my tree. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 9 Feb 2013 10:28 |
I would recommend anyone looking for relatives who worked the Thames and canals to go and join Rootschat. |
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