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I have canal boatmen on the staffs and worcs and they live and breed in stourport which was lower mitton in the time you are talking about. The folk in dudley would go to stourport and then turn about and go to london or chester or middlewich or where ever.
But study this beginner's guide and you'll learn how to gracefully drive and steer along the if you over-steer, you're going to snake along the canal in zig-zags.
That is why sue wilkes’s well researched and highly readable handbook on the subject is so valuable. She concentrates on the people who lived and worked on the waterways the canal boatmen, their families and their way of life - and those who depended on the canal trade for a living the lock-keepers, toll collectors, and canal company clerks.
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Fisher row: fishermen, bargemen, and canal boatmen in oxford, 1500-1900 mary prior snippet view - 1982 fisher row: fishermen, bargemen and canal boatmen in oxford, 1500-1900.
Canal companies employed boatmen, engineers, clerks, toll clerks, blacksmiths, navvies and many other types of workers. Many of these professions may be mentioned in minute books, wage books, staff ledgers, pension books and rent rolls so canal company records are often a good place to start.
Hi all hoping to find any people with canal boatmen or women in their trees, mine come from the harrison line, in tipton but being boatmen they travelled all over so have a lot elsewhere too, if anyone has any let me know.
If your ancestors was away at school, a temporary boarder in a hotel, a sailor or canal man, at a country home, or in the hospital, they were often (depending on the census year) enumerated as living with their families at their permanent home or added to the institution’s enumeration with a note about their true home written in the margin.
I am looking for a george walker born roughly 1851 in the uk somewhere.
Significantly there was no canal boatman's mission in braunston and no the boating community at a time when other areas were beginning to isolate a group.
Aug 16, 2017 we chose to cruise the canal du midi because the route is great for beginning boaters like ourselves and offered my family a chance to relax.
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This guide is not just for those with canal boatmen in their trees – it also provides often overlooked information on people who relied on the canal trade for a living, such as lock-keepers, toll collectors and canal company clerks.
In general my ancestors on my father's side were canal boatmen and on my mother's side coal miners in the north staffordshire coalfield. As my mother's maiden name was price i would be interested to find where in wales my price ancestors originated from as price is the anglicised form of ap rhys or son of rhys.
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Image courtesy of spellweaver canal boat ancestors a website for those who are interested in canal and river boatmen. Uses newspaper articles to detail the lives and work of canal boatmen, and aims to help those trying to trace their canal ancestors. Uk wide, but includes material from coventry, nuneaton, and birmingham.
Tonks family of boatmen the tonks family was one of the leading families working on the narrow canal boats carrying cargoes between gloucester and the midlands. They can be traced back to thomas tonks (born c1822), the son of waterman john tonks.
Boatpeople of the wolverhampton canal system staffordshire genealogy. Baptism and marriages of people known to have been on the canal system in wolverhampton with alphabetical list of names showing page numbers for entries which have been found in wolverhampton church registers.
For canal boatmen and families 19-03-09, 12:25 hi all i have a website about canal boatmen, they are my husbands family, if i could ask for any photo's past and present so that i can put them on my website i would be very grateful.
We had intended to combine a visit to the museum with a walk along the canal but the heavens opened. We spent over an hour in the museum and could have spent even longer. It was of particular interest because i am researching boatmen and lock-keeper ancestors.
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