RootsChat.Com
England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Staffordshire => Topic started by: shelleyfamilyhist on Sunday 01 February 09 00:49 GMT (UK)
-
Hi guys
new to this,so you'll have to bear with me
i have 4 generations of boatmen in my family tree,by the name 'Wright', and all have links to Tipton, Toll End Road.
William Wright 1875-1918, Boatman, married Mary-Ann Bailey in 1892, Tipton
daur Bertha Wright (my great grandmother)
-Son of-
John Wright 1845-abt 1918 Boatman, Married Elizabeth Ralph (father John Ralph, Boatman)
John was born in Stanton, Derbyshire. Censuses show him living in Toll End 1881-1901
-son of-
William Wright 1823-1889 Boatman, Married Maria Currey Wagstaff in 1846, Tipton (Parents James Wagstaff and Mary Currey, Boatman)
William was born in Stourport in 1823, along with 5 other siblings,yet none are shown on familysearch.com- i have copies of baptisms.
Both are buried in Tipton Cemetery, Spent their later lives at Toll End again
-son of-
Thomas Wright and Sarah.....
This is where i hit my dead end.All 6 children are baptised in Stourport
John Wright, 1821
William Wright, 1823
Benjamin Wright, 1825
Sarah Wright, 1827
Elizabeth Wright, 1829
Samuel Wright, 1834
All are extremely patchy on cesuses, but i cannot get the wright line in Stourport any further back.I know there are another 5 Wright families Baptised in Stourport, But none are Boatmen, and none seem related.Can you or anyone else help??
If not, i hope some of the info i have collected can help others.Other Boatman names i have linked to my Wrights are:
Ashley
Ralph
Diggory
Beresford
Nixon
Whitehouse
Broughton
Hope i can help someone, even if they cant help me
thanx
Stuart
-
Hello Stuart.
I am the owner of the canalboatmen.co.uk site . I also have a direct liniage family of Green that settled in tipton, and also the Harrison family. I would love to share information with you if you wish to do so.
GC
-
Hi stuart, my husband is an harrison, if you look at my website under my name you will find your family there.
There are also other people on here (rootschat) who are related to me and who have helped also with information.
good luck in your search
kerry
-
Hi Shelley family History
James Wagstaff and Mary Curry/Cory where my 3 X great grandparents I come down from thier daughter Ann Wagstaff who married George Savage and thier daughter Elizabeth married George Yarnall my great grandfather who lived in Toll end Road on the 1881 census.
There is another connection not a blood line though through the marriage of John Wright to Annie George nee Nixon at St Gabriels Church Birmingham 03/11/1907 Annie's Daughter Pheobe Ann George Married James Yarnall son of George Yarnall (above)
On the 1911 census John Wright is Wharfinger for Fellows Morton and Clayton Canal Carriers at Fazeley Street Deritend Birmingham.Most of my family worked for FMC at one time or another from the start of the company at Tipton in 1837 by James Fellows through to when they finished in 1848
Regards
Lorna
-
Hi Stuart and Lorna,
Maria Curry WAGSTAFF and her husband William WRIGHT are my 3x Great Grandparents.
Lorna I would love to correspond with you further about this. I'm at work at present but will log on again tomorrow and send you a Personal Message. I have tried to contact Stuart but not heard back from him yet.
Am very excited about this!
Regards
Bargee Girl
-
Hi Bargee Girl
Look forward to hearing from you and swopping info
Lorna
-
I suspect that my great grandmother was Mary Wright daughter of William and Maria. If so, she married William Rush and they had a son James in 1888, who is my grandfather. Can anyone confirm this?
-
Hi Jeff, Yes I can confirm that. Mary was born on 19 Feb 1853 at Watery Lane, Tipton. Do you want a copy of the birth cert or any more info?
I'd love more info on Mary's marriage please. Send me a privaet message and I'll respond.
-
My Grandfather was Thomas Beresford, wife Sarah Ann Dutton they were Canal Boatmen in Birmingham any Ideas
-
Stuart
I have Whitehouse boatmen.
Jackie
-
My Grandfather was Thomas Beresford, wife Sarah Ann Dutton they were Canal Boatmen in Birmingham any Ideas they also worked for Fellows Morton and Clayton
-
Hello Stuart,
I have only just come across your message about boatmen in Tipton.
I have a family connection namely James Dutfield, who was born in Tipton in 1845. His
father was Thomas Dutfield. Both were boatmen. Do you have any information
regarding the Dutfield family line in Tipton ?
regards
Chris Divine (*)
(*) Moderator Comment: e-mail removed in accordance with RootsChat policy,
to avoid spamming and other abuses.
Please use the Personal Message (PM) system for exchanging personal data.
-
Hi All,
My GGFather William TOLLEY b1862 and his half brother Mark Tolley b1873 were both from the Toll End area and are both listed as boat labourers in the 1891 census, can anyone enlighten me as to what a boat labourer did? Also if anyone has any information on either of them I would be most greatful.
I realise this is an old thread but I only joined today.
Steve
-
:)Anyone heard of the Tonks, I believe they were boatmen, not quite sure were they where based.
Sorry for the lack of information.
-
Hi Stuart
I am working on the Wright family at present and having the same problems as you. Elizabeth Wright was my 2xggrandmother and have only just discovered that her father was Thomas WRIGHT, a boatman. I have her marriage certificate to Thomas BATE, also a boatman. I found that Elizabeth was ch on 21 Mar 1829 Lower Mitton, Worcester, and her sister Sarah was ch on 7 Jun 1827 also the same place. Parents were Thomas Wright and Sarah. Like you, I couldn't go any further, unable to find them on any Census until 1871 (where I found Elizabeth). I found this family on another site:
Thomas Wright b 1800 Nottinghamshire and also Birmingham
Sarah DEELEY born 1800 Birmingham
Siblings:
John b.21 Jun 1821 ch 28 Sep 1821 Birmingham (I found this source)
Benjamin b1825 Stourport (unable to find)
William b1825 Stourport (unable to find)
Sarah ch 7 Jun 1827 Stourport (found this)
Elizabeth ch21 Mar 1829 Stourport (found this)
Samuel b1834 Stourport (unable to find)
I noted someone else querying the Tonks family - Thomas Bate's daughter, Sarah Ann, married John Tunks, also a boatman (my ggrandparents).
Laurette
-
Hi,
Has anyone any info of the Clarke's , David or Noah I think were canal boatmen, around mid / late 1800s and has anyone heard of the iron / steel house, some sort of lock houst in the midlands somewhere. It all seems like family folklaw to me cant find anything.
Kev.
-
Hi Laurette, any chance you can give me more info on your Tonks, I have 3 John Tonks 1) John Tonks c1818 married to an Emma Bedall 2) John Tonks c1840 married twice Nancy Howe and Martha Smith 3) John Tonks c1899 I don't have a wife for him...........could any of these John's be yours too.
-
Hi Polly
No match unfortunately. My John Tunks/Tonks was born 1843 in Gloucester. Married Caroline Tustin and after she died married Sarah Ann Glover nee Bate.
Cheers
Laurette