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Title: canal boatmen and women
Post by: kerry1212 on Tuesday 23 October 07 13:52 BST (UK)

i have a list of canal boatmen if anyone has these name please get in touch


 
BROOKES
 JAMES
STOKES
BROOKS
GOODE
JINKS
STUBBS
BUNN
GREEN 
TURTON
CARTER
HARRIS
CRESSWELL
HARRISON
MANDER
WILLINGTON
DIGGORY
 HOLLINSHEAD
PALIN WOOD
FAIRBROTHER 
WARD
FRADLEY
HUMPHRIES
 REYNOLDS
WRIGHT

kerry

 

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: Gnatalee on Tuesday 03 June 08 13:35 BST (UK)

Hi

I am interested in some of these names - Brooks, Bunn, Stubbs and Brookes.  They appear on Gerald Cresswell's Canal Boatmen site - which I gave him some of the information, so if you have any more I would be very interested.

Thanks.

Jackie :)

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: springtime 60 on Wednesday 05 November 08 19:59 GMT (UK)

hi kerry
i've been searching william flatley and family he was a boatmen from 1881 in and around kidderminster wolverhampton.
the only thing i have found is his daughter was baptised at the boatpeoples church in wolverhampton  st mays and he was down on  the surcco
can you help
sorry i should of put this as a new topic
                      ann

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: kerry1212 on Wednesday 05 November 08 22:20 GMT (UK)

hi kp this is my website they are all here, its new so haven't finished ;D

http://www.wix.com/boatmen/miners

kerry

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: springtime 60 on Thursday 06 November 08 07:09 GMT (UK)

kerry
its a brilliant site on the books of the families.
how have you got all the info, i would love to see my flatley family there
can you enlighten me
         thanks
                ann

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: kerry1212 on Thursday 06 November 08 08:10 GMT (UK)

hi ann they are all families of my husbands, he is from the harrison line and we have been researching for over 5 years now, with the help of family and friends and a lot of research this is how far we have got, we are hoping that if people have any of the families listed will tell us and we can list their info, and any photo's too ;D

kerry

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: Glen in Tinsel Kni on Thursday 06 November 08 12:16 GMT (UK)

Kerry

I have seen some of the pictures in assorted books and recognise some of the Ward names in the families section but i'm not connected in any way. I really like the way the site works too, the book format looks really good and is easy to use.

Would you mind if i added your site as a link on the canal section of FTF?

Glen

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: toni* on Thursday 06 November 08 12:54 GMT (UK)

wow what a great website

 :)

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: kerry1212 on Thursday 06 November 08 13:23 GMT (UK)

hi glen no i don't mind thanks ;D

toni thank you

kerry

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: Glen in Tinsel Kni on Thursday 06 November 08 16:04 GMT (UK)

Thankyou Kerry

I have added the link to the Wiki in FTF, i'm hoping to pull a few more together at some point and add them along with yours.

Glen

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: NDRFT on Wednesday 19 November 08 11:09 GMT (UK)

Hi
Brilliant site you are building there. Are there any costs associated with the use of that web site please?
Thanks
nigel

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: kerry1212 on Wednesday 19 November 08 12:28 GMT (UK)

hi no ndrft it is free you can upgrade but they don't give much extra i am told ..

kerry

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: NDRFT on Wednesday 19 November 08 12:39 GMT (UK)

Thanks for the reply. I am off to try it out.
Nigel

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: avfc on Wednesday 19 November 08 21:20 GMT (UK)

hi kerry
unable to get on to your site. Hve you any info of the Drakeley's who haiked from nechells and moored on Tyburn rd

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: jessicawabbit16 on Wednesday 15 April 09 22:59 BST (UK)

Hi Kerry1212, James and carter are my immediate family and hollinshead, jinks, green and fradley are all people who married into our family or vice versa. 

I have lots of info so far, but would like to clarify it further.  any details on the above names would be great.

Cheers!

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: springtime 60 on Thursday 16 April 09 07:00 BST (UK)

seems like my post has been left behind
i am still searching any info on the WILLIAM FLATLEYand family wholived and worked on the canals in worcester wolverhampton shropshire areas
                     ann

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: Domingo on Saturday 16 May 09 00:33 BST (UK)

Hi Kerry,

My great grand uncle was Samuel Stubbs b 1869 Brentwood Staffordshire, married Agnes May 1891 Runcorn.
1901 Census living on barge Wrenbury, occupation waterman on barge.

Mary

Title: Re: canal boatmen and women
Post by: rebekahm28 on Sunday 14 June 09 15:50 BST (UK)

I have WRAY's and SLADEN's who were boat people on the canals.  Although I have (seperate) gypsy ancestry, it never occured to me that some people would also think of boat people as travellers or gypsies, although I very much like that idea!  If anyone else has Wray's or Sladen's I'd love to hear from you. Mine were in the Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire areas.